Funny as I am reading this very thread this happens:
I just wrote a mid term for a fairly difficult class, the test was easier than I thought it would be and I think I did fairly well. As I sit in the comp lab reading calgarypuck.com a few people from my class are chatting about the test. One asks the other if they did good, if "it" helped. The other replied "yes there was only a few different ones" The first person's buddy goes "oh they never changed the test?" "not by much and (name) gave me his old test, I think only 3 or 4 of us had it in the class so it should help."
These people had last years test, virtually the same, to study off of. I am sitting here with 4 people who will get a better mark then me hurting my mark and I have to stomach it. Such is life, and life goes on.
This also makes me think that plagarism happens a lot more than you think it does, and you get hurt by this affect more often than you know it. It is just the sting of knowing somebody else did it that actually turns people against the notion I believe.
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