To tell someone that he cheated?

[SharkiraSharkira]

I'm in my last year of my uni degree and have just done my final exam for one of my units.

One of the other students who was in the course last year has had to repeat the year as they didn't pass overall but did pass the particular unit I was doing so I didn't have to retake it.

We were talking about the exam and he told me that he blatantly cheated in the exam, as in took his phone in and looked stuff up. He said he didn't know how he got away with it and that without it he wouldn't have passed. I do believe him, the invigilators at the uni are not particularly strict, none of them even checked us for phones when we went in.

I'm now feeling really uncomfortable about this. On the one hand I think it would be really mean to dob him in and potentially ruin his chance of passing but on the other hand it doesn't sit right with me that he cheated. Wibu to tell someone?

Nothing can be proved either way.

I really wouldn't worry about it. You weren't aiding and abetting a crime or anything like that.

If the invigilators cared enough to prevent cheating, they'd tighten up security in the exam hall.

The only person who should be worried in this scenario is the cheater himself.

You could say to your tutor that it has been brought to your attention that another student allegedly cheated during an exam by looking someting up on a mobile phone. You realise that nothing can be done as there is no proof but could they bare it in mind when invigilating exams in the future.

Cheats really piss me off. I'm not great at academic stuff so really have to work to get good grades. Other students cheating devalues my accomplishment completely.

I agree completely expat, it just doesn't mean anything if you cheat. I'd rather fail on my own that cheat and pass.

You must say something as the Uni needs to make sure the invigilators are doing their jobs. I chief invigilate exams of approx 100 and there is no way in the world anyone in one of my exams could get a phone out and cheat. They are watched for the whole 3 hours from different angles and invigilators walk the exam hall 75% of the time. The Uni needs to up their game with the invigilators.