Studies Find More Students Cheating, With High Achievers No Exception

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6. Law schools too.

Twenty years ago, two alum cheated their way through law school. School made it easy for them: two sections of the same class sitting to take the same exam on the same floor of the same building. They sat in different classrooms. At a designated time (11:05 a.m.), they'd take a bathroom break, conference in the restrooms and return to the exams, skewing the grading curve for the rest of us.

They tried it again when we took the bar the month after graduation. Same arrangement but they met once in the morning and once in the afternoon for the two-day session. They looked in the bathroom (mirrors, tiles, ceilings) to discover hidden cameras and found none.

They took the bar exam without incident. It was the second day, the last session and "pencils down" was called. Everyone was allowed to leave except for each of them. They were escorted to another room where they were shown a tape of them exchanging answers in the restrooms. A disembodied voice told them they were permanently banned from sitting for the bar in any state or U.S. territory and they just pissed away seven years of college.

(Bet at least one of them is holding office at this moment . . . . . )