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Ritu faced an ethical dilemma during a math exam when she was struggling with a difficult problem worth many points. She considered copying the answer from her classmate Ami, who was sitting in front of her and had already completed the problem. Ritu felt pressure to perform well on the exam for her parents and grade. After briefly glancing at Ami's answer, Ritu completed the rest of the problem herself. Later, Ritu felt guilty about her decision and discussed it with her parents. They understood her situation but asked her not to repeat copying. Ritu realized the easy path of cheating was short-sighted and resolved to face challenges ethically in the future.

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Ritu faced an ethical dilemma during a math exam when she was struggling with a difficult problem worth many points. She considered copying the answer from her classmate Ami, who was sitting in front of her and had already completed the problem. Ritu felt pressure to perform well on the exam for her parents and grade. After briefly glancing at Ami's answer, Ritu completed the rest of the problem herself. Later, Ritu felt guilty about her decision and discussed it with her parents. They understood her situation but asked her not to repeat copying. Ritu realized the easy path of cheating was short-sighted and resolved to face challenges ethically in the future.

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Ritu Shah, F2

Roll no-23
PGP-FW 09-11
ETHICAL DILEMMA AND ITS RESOLUTION

One of the Ethical dilemma faced by me in in real life in my school when prelim Math exam was going on
and my hands were sweating as only fifteen minutes were left This exam was worth most of my grade
in the class. I understood maths—even liked it—and usually did really well. But constant problem was that
I wasn’t a strong test-taker. My grades never reflected my understanding of the material I studied.

Now, here I was, once again stuck on one problem worth twenty-five points on the test, and I was drawing
a blank. I put her head down on the desk and concentrated as hard as I could. I remembered doing a
similar problem in class and explaining it to my friend Ami, but now I was so stressed out by the test, I
couldn’t even remember how to begin the problem.

I lifted my head and stared at my test. I listened to the clock tick on the wall and imagined my parents’
expression when I receive my report card. Ami was sitting right in front of me. She is always a good test
taker and had already solved the problem. The teacher had his backed turned and was on the other side
of the room. I could look over Ami’s shoulder, get the answer, and no one would know.

I needed to think quickly. I thought about how unfair it was that I regularly do badly on tests even though I
worked so hard in class and understood the material, too.  I thought about how often I helped Ami in class
throughout the semester. What should to do? I prided myself on doing what was right. But how right is it
that I had to work in a system that doesn’t reward such hard work?

Finally, I took a deep breath. I looked to see if the teacher was still on the other side of the room, and
glanced over Ami’s shoulder just long enough to get the final answer to the question. Then, I figured out
the rest of the problem on my own. In the moment, I felt great about my decision. I felt I had sort of
created an ethical compromise.          

But on the way home on the bus, My good feelings started to fade. “What exactly is an ethical
compromise anyway?” I thought to myself. Should I tell my teacher and parents about what I did or move
forward and forget about the whole thing? I was Dual minded- If I would tell my teacher and parents then
I would have to face the punishment. If not then I would have surely got good marks but ultimately would
be my loss as final exams were yet left and the same situation would then arise.

The test result was good. My parents were too happy for that but that was troubling me. I finally spoke to
my parents about it. They understood my situation and even discussed with my teacher on parents day,
that students pressures and competition force them to adapt wrong ways to succeed. So the grading
system should be done fairly and openly on the bases of class performance also, by which all students
get unbiased assessment on the participation they do.

My parents forgive me but took a promise from me that I wouldn’t repeat it again as by this I was stooping
myself to fight the situation in a right way and adopting a wrong way. This situation will come many times
in real life and probably that time a wrong behavior would be injurious to others.

The wrong way always looks easy to follow but the journey on it is very short, where as the right way
looks big and difficult but it is the right path to success. Thus I realized my mistake and after that I have
never copied in my final exams.

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