These examples are not meant to serve as a list of rules, but rather to illustrate behavior incompatible with the Honor System. Cheating on exams. Most professors at Caltech give take-home exams and rely on your sense of honor not to cheat. Possible cheating violations include consultation of prohibited references, exceeding the time limit on self-timed exams without indicating so, or consulting with a student who has already taken the exam. Unauthorized collaboration on homework or lab assignments.
Most professors allow a certain degree of collaboration on assignments.
You should seek a clear explanation of the professor's collaboration policy. Plagiarism of another's work, including using material without appropriate citation. Disregard for the rules of any of the libraries on campus. Failure to follow the library rules takes unfair advantage of other library users. The basic premise of the Honor System, that one must not take unfair advantage of any other member of the Caltech community, applies to nonacademic as well as to academic areas.