Overheard a cheating braggart, snitch or no?

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If he cheated and got away with it then surely the next move is buy him a beer and ask him how he did it.

At an English university you would be considered total filth by the rest of the student body if you ratted someone out like that. The ratting would be seen as a lot lot worse than the cheating.

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Who gives a sh*t.

And nobody has to know.

From the description of the way the OP first got the idea cheating might be going on, it sounds like nobody would know.

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Never snitch. That's all.

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There is NO way that this is a correct, absolute, statement.

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Of course it isn't. Obviously you'd snitch if you saw your neighbor kidnap or harm a child etc. But when it comes to this setting I would never snitch on a fellow student to a teacher, no matter what. Is that any clearer?

Swede

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It was never unclear. It just had no moral clarity.

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At an English university you would be considered total filth by the rest of the student body if you ratted someone out like that. The ratting would be seen as a lot lot worse than the cheating.

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I would much rather be friends with a cheat than a rat anyday of the week.

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Right up untill he developes a coke habit and your TV dissapears.

[lastchance]

The biggest key here is that you got nothing. If you have concrete proof someone is cheating, and it's really messing you up, than go for it.

[tolbiny]

"I can, however, warn a professor for a different class I have with the guy."

This seems like a reasonable play. Drop a note to the other professor- if he cheats on that test he gets what he deserves. I would probably just say- i believe person x is likely to cheat on his final.

[The once and future king]

If you go to university and don't learn how to game the system then you are not preparing yourself for the real world.

Yes you can follow all the rules like a good little boy/sheep/sucker, but in the real world especially in business you will have to be more a lot more ruthless and alert to "opportunities" to get ahead of your rivals.

I am only referring back to English university, but if you didn't look for a way to cheat then you would have been considered dumb and a total girly swot. If you ratted out someone who had found an exploit then you would have been lower than whale meat.

However it must be said that grades are not relative to the achievements of other students in UK marking system.

[DoomSlice]

Ok. We actually have to sign a contract that says if you cheat or let someone cheat off of you, then you get expelled. Harsh enough?