Two students were referred to Student Judicial Affairs for suspected cheating on an exam.
Numbered exams indicate that the students sat next to each other during the test.
A comparison of the content of the two exams reveals that major portions of the exams are verbatim, including identical misspellings. The student's petition described personal problems causing poor academic performance, and included a supporting letter from a family member. Circumstances surrounding the letter, however, have triggered suspicions that it is not genuine. An instructor became concerned upon receiving a paper from a student where the level of writing was uncharacteristic of most students in the class. When the instructor asked the student about the paper, the student was unable to answer even basic questions about the sophisticated content of the paper.