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A girl in my chem class is quite the cheater. During quizzes and tests she has her cell under the desk googling answers. I only know this because she sits at the same desk as me and we are in the back of the room. She doesn't pay attention in the class and doesn't understand any of the info. She also brags about her tutor doing her homework. Anyway, with final exam coming up should I continue to bite my tongue and not tell the teacher like I have all semester or should I give my teacher a heads up and let her know about the girls cheating ways. I transfer after this semester to a nursing school from my community college and unfortunately this girl got into the same program as me or else I would ignore it. I will for sure be avoiding her next year but I find cheaters to be pretty pathetic and it irritates me to know end that someone would not even try to learn the info and then cheat.

" Once a cheater...always a cheater!!" ( Ok...that is usually reserved for "relationship" type cheaters...but I think it's appropriate in this case too!)

I would grass her in to the Prof!!! I don't think it would serve any purpose trying to tell her to " knock it off" because if she had any common sense or a conscience, she wouldn't be doing it at all!! - No scruples!!!

Have a private chat with your Prof...I'm certain she/he would never let on who the information came from!

Best of luck to you!

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Don't Fret, I had a classmate like that in my Anatomy class. Never mind what they are doing just focus on you. Many Nursing programs have an entrance exam like the TEAS where there are no phones to google answers from. So It's doubtful your classmate will get beyond that first hurdle of an appropriate score on one of those tests.

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Be careful with anonymous letter about the girl cheating at the back of the room. Don't you sit by her? It would be terrible for you to get called out. Go to the professor and say that you are moving seats because the girl next to you is cheating on exams and you don't ever want to be accused of that. GUILT by association would absolutely suck!

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Specializes in Hospitalist Medicine.

I would have a private, face-to-face conversation with the professor. Honesty is the best policy. Tell him exactly your concerns. You've witnessed her cheating several times, you're concerned that she's going into a nursing program, etc. If she's academically dismissed for cheating in pre-reqs, she won't have a prayer of getting in to nursing school. TOUGH! Her loss, she shouldn't have cheated.

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I know someone like this. The person I know has been a cheater all her life and gets away with it because everyone around her is an enabler. No one says No and no one gives her consequences.

Don't be like one of those enablers! I think you can be the one to put your foot down. Write a letter to the teacher describing what you've witnessed. Perhaps you can keep it anonymous or refrain from naming names until the teacher requests it. Let the teacher decide whether any action can be taken. But I think you should do the right thing by speaking up.

You could be doing this for the sake of being fair to the program and fellow students. And it will teach the cheater a lesson, hopefully. I say it's the right thing to do. This girl needs to grow up.

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I don't know about you but I studied my *** off in nursing school. I would have to turn this person in. If you feel better doing it anonymously then do so. Good luck;)

When you're paying your own way through school (and/or knowing you will have loans to pay back at the end) and have studied and worked hard, you definitely don't want to see someone getting theirs for free by cheating their way through.

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Unfortunately with a cheating situation, even if you have a private conversation with your professor about her, there may not be much the professor can do without catching her in the act also. I really don't think the faculty can really do much based on "he said, she said". With that said, if she does make it into the nursing program, there is no way she will pass standardized tests like the HESI or NCLEX if she has been cheating through all her classes. It is really frustrating knowing that she cheated and you put all that honest, hard work into everything, but cheating is such a serious situation that action may not be taken without the faculty catching her in the act also.

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Update: I informed my instructor in a short email saying that I wanted to gve her a heads up on a fellow student who was using her cell to cheat during quizzes and tests. Yesterday she wanted to meet with me and I did and she asked who the student was so I told her. Afterwards we had class with an exam and cheater still cheated but hid her cell under her backpack and 'googled' answers instead of her normal phone in her lap technique. I left before she was done so not sure if teacher called her out or spoke to her but while I was there she didnt get up from her desk or seem to notice :(

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seriously and the instructor still didnt notice??

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Specializes in Anesthesia.

That's pretty impressive that she can type and look up chemistry answers in the middle of a test without the teacher taking notice lol.

Let us know if she gets caught or not.

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Specializes in Critical Care.

Idk what I would do in your situation. I would probably let the instructor know about whats going on. Is she in the nursing program?... If she is I would bring it up most def... if not I would let the karma catch up to her.

Just my two cents :3

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It is possible that the teacher will pull her aside in private, or just give her a plain F on this test. I wouldn't be surprised if the teacher just didn't want to bring it up during the test or in front of others. It would be pretty obvious if the teacher suddenly interrupted a student right in the middle of a test. You did the right thing by informing the teacher, now it is in their hands.

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