What Happens if You are Caught Cheating

Students who cheat are likely to be caught. This is a very serious matter.

The case will go first to your department. The department can
•	Give a verbal warning
•	Give a written warning that will stay on your record until graduation
•	Require you to do extra work on the course
•	Impose a lower grade or a fail in the course

But that is not all. If you are discovered cheating, however minor the offence, your transcript will carry a notation of academic dishonesty. This notation stays with your record until graduation. If you cheat again, you will be dismissed from the University.

In serious cases, your department may ask the Student Disciplinary Committee to look at the case. The Student Disciplinary Committee can require you to do campus community service; take away your eligibility for a degree with honors, or scholarships and prizes; suspend you from the University, or simply dismiss you right away.

And that would be it. All your years of hard work in primary and secondary school, all that pressure to do well in the public exams … all thrown away.

	Avoiding Pressures that Lead to Cheating
	What is Academic Dishonesty?
	How to Avoid Plagiarism & Copying
	What Happens if You are Caught Cheating
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