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Have you, or someone you are close to, ever been impacted by Academic Dishonesty (or a lack of academic integrity)? Describe and discussion the situation you experienced.
Academic dishonesty or misconduct is any type of cheating or inappropriate behavior that is exhibited by the students during their education. It happened to a friend of mine during the second semester of my bachelor’s degree to a friend of mine. He decided to copy only for the Maths Exam from his friends to pass the exam. He convinced the students nearby him to write the answers in the exam question paper and pass it on. Everything went well until the Head of Department came for the rounds around the last fifteen minutes. His question paper was noticed by the HOD and immediately he started checking the question paper of the whole class. My friend and two of his nearby students got caught for cheating in the exam through the question papers. All three members were taken to the principal office for further inquiry and they accepted to be guilty. It was then reported to the main University and when there was another inquiry to decide the punishment for them along with all the other similar cases that include cheating, using a mobile phone in the exam, fighting with the invigilator, etc., When the result came we came to know that all the exams that they wrote were canceled and asked to reappear in the next semester. The students learned the lesson in a hard way and it was very hard for them to write all the fourteen papers in the next semester (7 current exams and 7 arrear exams). When asked about the incident, they said that never in their life they will repeat such actions in the future.