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With the electronic age, studying for an exam could mean texting or Instant Messaging someone thousands of miles away but taking the same course. This has been a wonderful additional tutor for my daughter while she was studying the Ground School portion of her future pilot license.  
 
One of her many study partners wrote the exam last Tuesday (with his local Air Cadet Squadron) but she is writing it tonight (Friday) when her squadron has their regular night at the armoury. It is the same exam for all cadets applying for the glider scholarship.  
 
He offered to contact her on Wednesday and tell her what was on the exam so she would get a better mark.  
 
She REFUSED!! She refused to even "talk" to him in case he let something slip about the exam.  
 
She said it would give her an unfair advantage over the other cadets and therefore classifies it as cheating.  
 
This is an exam that she has basically built her career on to become a helicopter pilot. We can not afford pilot lessons so she is counting on the Air Cadets to start her training. She has back up career plans but her heart is set on flying. And now she will not even look for a loophole to help her get started.  
 
I am sitting here waiting for the call to pick her up after the exam. I am hoping that she does well on this exam and gets on the Gliders course this summer with the Air Cadets.  
 
But if she does not succeed as a pilot, I am bursting with pride at her sense of fair play.  
 
Do you have teenagers that are using the latest gadgets to learn a subject better or to cheat on the exam? Did you use gadgets to cheat (just a little bit) when you were in school? [I never cheated on an exam but I admit that I borrowed my friend's bus pass and got free transit rides.] Would you have taken advantage of an offer to have an exam explained to you two days before you had to write it?