I found out towards the end of the semester that several people had last years exam questions and answers for all midterms and finals throughout the year. They copied old questions and equations onto their calculators and used that to pass with raw A's while I was struggling with D's and F's that would be curved up just enough for me to pass. I found out some of my friends in the class had access to this and I was both surprised and upset. 1. That they would cheat and 2. That they wouldn't at leadt give me a heads up knowing full well I was struggling in the class. I was so pissed when I found out. I had been studying so hard to stay afloat and the night before the final I panicked. I created an anonymous email account and snitched out the entire class the night before. I thought maybe I wouldn't be taken seriously but the next morning our professor was close to tears. Most students had been scoring As and Bs and she had attributed it to her teaching. They took away our graphing calculators and gave everyone a basic scientific calculator. People were angry and also worried they would be questioned. I was shaking in class. Excited that I exposed everyone but also scared I would be caught by my classmates as a snitch. We took the test. I got a B+ on my exam! The class average was disproportionately lower for the final than any other exam we had taken in class. I ended up passing the class with a B- once our HW was added in. I don't know if any my classmates ever suspected me or not. The classes were very small since it was a private college. I don't regret shit. I wish i had found out sooner to be honest.
Edit: I found out about the cheating because a classmate I had started studying with offered to upload the answers on my graphing calculator after they got to know me. Call me what you want! I don't regret anything other than wishing I told the professor sooner because I had a solid 5 days to sleep on that decision!
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