According to www.pble.ac.uk, a reliable educational website which conducts surveys on different school-related topics, 9 out of every 10 students have cheated at least once on tests or in exams during their high-school time. Cheating in exams is always consisdered one of the most controversial topics in education. The situation has worsened over years and not many solutions are being done to stop it. From this matter of fact posed a question: what are the ultimate reasons leading students to cheating? There are a lot of different answers; however, the most two common are: because of the students themselves and of many outside objective reasons.
The first and foremost reason why students cheat in exams is because of their laziness. It is a very fact that students are usually distracted by entertaining activities: many of them spend too much time on watching TV, playing games, listening to music or surfing the internet, instead of on their studying works; which should be given a lot of criticism. And the results are obvious: they cheat on exams since they know nothing at all.
Another cause that roots from the students themselves is that some of them do not know how to control their time expenditure for other activities; therefore, lacking of time is what many of them blame for their not contributing an adequate amount of time to studying works. Students,especially those in universities, argue that: twice a week, they have go to work in the clubs, or once a month, they must take part in many social and voluntary activities; and that is why they do not have enough time for studying, and that is why they have to cheat in exams in spite of themselves. Sometimes, this seems to be quite reasonable, but these students have forgotten one important thing: that is, to a student, studying stuff is of the most priority; and there is no excuse for the ignorance in their enducation path. So, it is advisory that these people learn how to manage with their limited time...