Would this be considered cheating?

It's not going to do her any good to get through the class this way. We have these pre-reqs for a reason, because we need to know this stuff for a career in nursing. Why dont you just tell her that you don't have the 2nd exam (you lost it or something) but offer to help her study, or watch her child while she has a study day

Yes, I would call it cheating. Also, she's really not learning anything. It's a set up for failure in the future. The "hard work and stress" is characteristic of the beast of nursing.

If faculty find out you and her are doing this, both of you will be expelled.

It's a bad idea because she isn't going to learn anything. A&P sucks but it's so important. For example, I'm taking pathophysiology right now and if I didn't have an understanding of A&P there is no way I would be doing well right now. Let her know you want to help her but giving her the exams will just hurt her more in the long run!

bottom line, don't give her the exams. If she doesn't learn A&P she wont do well later on. Also, I don't think you could get in trouble. If the professor hands back the exam they assume this kind of thing happens.

it's definitely cheating and you both could be in a lot of trouble. Perhaps you could tutor her instead to help her out?

I can't understand why people over the high school age need to be told that when you give someone the answers to a test or let them copy your homework that is cheating and wrong.

We can not keep any of our tests for this reason. We get a 15 min. test review to get our test back and look them over (while all our stuff has to be put up like on test day) and then we have to hand them back in. If we are caught righting anything down during test review we are expelled.

I would just tell her that you misplaced them somewhere, but you would be more than happy to help her study for the exam. I think your heart was in the right place, but like me you can see how some people will push your kindness.

I can't understand why people over the high school age need to be told that when you give someone the answers to a test or let them copy your homework that is cheating and wrong.

I didn't mean to "cheat".. I was just trying to help a person out and I think I helped her enough I feel like giving her the first exam was wrong too! And that I should have just helped her study instead. I can't take back what I did now; what's done is done. I'll take what I learned and move on.

At my university, profs often have previous years' exams on reserve at the library for people to go over when studying. These profs have a huge bank of questions and you will typically only see a few repeat questions, but it gives you a good idea of the kind of questions they ask, and what material to focus on. In a case like that I would have no trouble sharing a test or exam with someone a year behind me. Other profs don't allow us to keep our exams for the very reason that they don't want them shared with future students.

I kind of feel like if they are allowing you to keep tests/exams, they should be smart enough to switch up the questions. They have to expect that things like that will be shared, and I don't see that as cheating at all.

That said, if you feel uncomfortable at all, tell your friend you can't find that second exam

Good grief. YES, it is cheating. I can't believe you even have a question about it.

BTW, I am in the middle of a divorce, I have 3 kids to raise (ages 8 and younger), and I DON'T cheat (and many of the other girls in my class do, and the majority of them don't have any responsibilities outside of school). I have gotten A's in all my classes except for one, in which I got a B. I'm also in an accelerated nursing program. Having a child and a job is not an excuse to cheat. She needs to apply herself, and you need to stop enabling her. Sorry to sound harsh, but I have one week left til I am done w/my LPN, and as of yesterday, there were still people in my class cheating on tests. So the cheating issue is a sore point w/me. (And yes, I and a couple of others in my class have gone to faculty about it, but they don't see it happening, so there's not much they can do).

It's nice of you to want to help someone, but the nature of school is that you should and do have to study to do well. If she can't cut it, then she needs to work harder. If you keep giving her your tests and hw, you are giving her a huge edge against others who are working their butts off, possibly, but not doing as well b/c they aren't cheating.