I don't know what it's like in other programs, but when I was in Engineering, the cheating was absolutely ridiculous. Rows of people seated strategically to get a good view of other people's work.
It always pissed me off because I knew that these idiots did zero work and would still end up passing the exam, albeit most of the time with worst marks than those who actually put in the effort.
Another thing that pissed me off when I was in school were the freaking copying of assignments. Some of these assignments took 8-10 hours to do and you'd get groups of asshats who get together at the start of the year and agree to split up the assignments for the rest of the year so each person only does one.
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Originally Posted by troutman
I often thought students should not be allowed to campaign profs in their office for better marks.
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Totally agree with this. The inevitable campaign to the professor's office after an exam to whine and cry for extra partial marks was a regular occurance. If the error is legitimate, then fine... but if you need to go in after every exam, sit there and haggle for an extra 2-3 marks, you have bigger issues. A few times, there were legitimate errors in my exams that could have been resolved but lining up for an hour when the office hours were only scheduled for an hour turned me away.
Uggh, glad I'm out of school.