It may indeed be true to say that cheating on exams has been serious at school. Many students admit that they have committed cheating once or twice in the past or at least they have been tempted to cheat. In spite of the fact that school authorities have imposed a severe punishment on dishonest students, cheating on exams still frequently happens nowadays.
Two main factors contribute to this phenomenon. One major factor is out of fear. Many students are afraid that they may fail in the exam if they depend on their own abilities. And a failure in an exam, to some extent, is a failure in one’s personal advancement. So they try fair and foul to pass the exam. Another factor is that some students are lazy and they want to seek fortune by luck in their academic study instead of by hard work. No wonder so many students resort to cheating on exams at the risk of being fined or dismissed from school.
How to deal with this problem? In my opinion, we have to reform our exam-oriented educational system to make it a really effective tool to evaluate students. Meanwhile, we shall instill moral education into students’ mind to arouse their awareness of the harmfulness of cheating.