Cheating has become a more and more serious problem at school. No matter whether you cheat at your primary school, high school or university, you will get serious punishment — especially at a university.

    Because of the worsening problem, it’s natural for us to ask: Why do so many students try to cheat?

    In my opinion, there are three primary reasons.

    First, students can cheat because of parents’ pressure and teachers’ expectations. Parents and teachers wish for us to get high marks that can open doors into good universities. But their pressure can be so strong that it leads to students cheating when they don’t have the expected abilities.

    Second, some students can’t stick to their faith and are influenced by others. These students feel unhappy when they realize that other students’ marks are higher than theirs by means of cheating.

    Last but not least, students can cheat because of influence from society. Nowadays, more and more fake academic products appear in China markets, which can have a bad influence on students.

    How to get rid of cheating? The way out is to punish more seriously and teach all students that cheating is a very shameful thing.

    If someone is caught cheating on an exam, he or she should get more serious punishment or even be kicked out of school. Moreover, any cheating or copying should be made known to the public, then other people would lose trust and confidence in him or her, which would cause the student to lose friends and face.

    To sum up, honesty has become more and more important in our increasingly developed society. So let us say loudly: “Stop cheating!”