They cheated on the exam and it's just not fair... should I tell prof?

[Le_Pakistan]

Re: They cheated on the exam and it’s just not fair… should I tell prof?

@X2

Actually depending on the student code of conduct, or honor code or academic code at the university, a student has a right and responsibility to report suspected plagiarism, dishonesty, cheating to the university.

Just by providing information on what questions were on a test, it is considered that the provider was a participant in violation of the code.

Knowing and not reporting is considered dodgy as well.

There are rules around such practices, so on one hand we are giving a cheater a free pass because the enforcement of measures to thwart such attempts is not hard enough.

On the other hand, we are against enforcement vis what many academic institutions have instituted as a checks and balances system.

Plagiarism is basically impossible to get away with nowadays. Every somewhat respected institute has a plagiarism detector. So that they will find out anyways.

I still want to know in what sort of institue OP studies, because of the easiness of resheduling tests.

As for passing forward questions, as I said earlier, that is not illegal. Unless they made you sign a paper saying ‘thou shall not talk about exam questions’.
Exams are held on the same time for every student for this reason exactly, that it makes it impossible for students to help each other with questions.
If you miss it you get a chance at resits, which again are held on the same time for everyone, for the very same reason.

In OP’s case, it makes no sense to report the person. And neither do I understand why OP is suffering from this.