My cohort and I are in our last semester of nursing school and our instructor went on a rant about cheating. There was an incident a few semesters back where a student had shared a copy of the exam with a group of other students disguised as a “study guide” (she changed it from exam format to make it look like a regular doc).
A few days ago, our instructor was ear hustling on a convo that some students were having about a different group of students being mad at a tutor they had been using. The tutor is rumored to be an ex-employee of the school and after she left she started a tutoring company. She doesn’t advertise that she only works with our students but any nursing student. However since she did work at our school she has direct 1st hand knowledge of the exams and question format.
In our instructors rant, she basically says that the woman is running a Ponzi scheme and if anyone pays for her content and practice questions it’s considered cheating. Because apparently the practice questions that she gives you are closely related to the exam. Other instructors are fully aware of this tutor and will just advise students to stay away from the service altogether so they aren’t accused of cheating.
I might be dense but I’m a little confused as to how this can be considered cheating and I feel like the instructors are using their position of power to Buffy students. Follow me on this:
This is a legitimate tutoring business and all material are branded to the tutoring company. If a student buys it they are assuming that they are buying a bundle no different than these other companies. If the tutor stole the exams from the school, then the school needs to sue for stealing the proprietary info and shut the business down. But instead of going after the company they are threatening to dismiss students or ensuring they fail their class for cheating. I just feel like this is a bullying tactic.