I once exposed my classmate for cheating in exam.
It was the final year paper for our engineering course and we were
in the giant hall for final exams.
I had done all the questions I knew. I then sat there cracking my
head on the questions I am uncertain of.... so I looked around
while I crack my head.
I casually looked at my classmate, who sits at a distance at my 11
o'clock position, took out his handkechief and clean his face. We
seldom talk to each other in class. I tot he must be sweating about
the paper.
Thats was when I saw it.
I saw him took out a piece of folded paper from his hanky and open
it. It was A4 size with writings.
He then removes the stapler of the question paper, mix the piece of
paper he had into the question paper and staple back the question
paper.
So when he pretend to look at the question paper, he is looking at
the piece paper he brought in. Then he started writing a lot.
My classmate looked around quickly to ensure no one saw him. He saw
me looking at his direction, and I looked away.
I looked around and saw everyone trying their best to answer the
paper. I felt this classmate is wrong to cheat to this extend.
Imagine if he scores distinction, when he cheated.
I raised my hand and one of my teachers responded to me. I raised
my question paper and my teacher came close to me, thinking I had a
question. I then said "I suspect my classmate is cheating...". I
told my teacher of my observation.
I told my teacher will go straight to my classmate. But what he did
next protected me as a whistle blower.
He went around the hall, got another teacher and then they
confronted my classmate. They caught him red-handed. I forgot if
they lead him away immediately or after the paper was over.
After the paper ended, my trainer came running out and told my
classmate & I the news. Little did they know I was the one who
exposed him.
I went back and told my brother what I did. My brother scolded me,
asking me how could I have done such a thing to my classmate! I was
shocked my brother said that I was wrong. I was very stressed out
by the paper and being blamed by my brother.
The next day was the last paper and I went back. Surprisingly the
classmate was back to exam table. He stared angrily at me hard. I
could see that he suspected that it was me and was going to take
revenge. At the end of the paper, I saw that my teacher picked up
his answer sheet personally.
And that was the last day of my tertiary study.
4 days later, I was enlisted for NS. NS training made me forget
this incident quite quickly. To date, I never saw that classmate,
who cheated, again.
Do you guys think I had done right or wrong to expose this
classmate?
