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Message: <blockquote data-quote="WizarDru" data-source="post: 1542060" data-attributes="member: 151">Well I used that because, AFAIK, none of my friends actually did cheat. At least, certainly not on exams or tests of any stripe. When I went to school, the web was not available to distribute term papers and tests, for example.  They certainly didn't openly brag about doing so, and showed no inclination for it.  The "in any real sense" is to indicate that maybe they borrowed an answer for an assignment that was late when they were in a rush, although I'm not aware of it.  But I know for a fact there wasn't any shortcutting on lab experiments, accounting work and the like.    Now, the only take-home exams I took, and they were few, were clearly meant as over-glorified research reports, and usually required you to show your work whenever possible...but the 'rules of the game' so to speak, were always made quite clear. And further, cheating didn't help you much, when you had 10-week quarters, semi-finals every third week, and classes that assumed you'd absorbed and mastered previous material. Of course, that may have accounted for the 50% freshman drop-out rate. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />   I'm curious as to what constitutes cheating on a take-home exam, for example. Were these essay questions that were copied, or just multiple choice answers that several people all got exactly wrong (which isn't to say I think they weren't cheating...I'm really just curious)?</blockquote>

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