Brian started sneaking answers into tests when he was in seventh grade, but now limits his cheating to English, history and chemistry exams. I want to be an architect so in calculus, I need to really learn the material. But in those other classes, I just need to do well for college. If cheating is a syndrome, however, it has infected millions of American youth. This showed a 6 percent increase from the original survey taken in 1996.
Studies also show that today's youth have a more relaxed attitude toward cheating.
In the same study 20 years later, only 4 percent of students said they would report the friend. We are becoming self-centered and more into getting whatever you can. This has been happening for the past 30 years. Academic dishonesty fuels a vicious cycle, said Donald McCabe, a Professor of Organization and Management at Rutgers University. As more students feel compelled to cheat in order to gain admission to the top colleges, he explained, many youth think they have no choice but to follow the crowd.