“It's not a question of who cheats, it's a question of who cheats more.” If everyone does it, then why does it matter if you cheat from time to time to get ahead. If students can do this, they can easily complete a test or homework without having to do anything, having more time to do enjoyable activities. The reason why some students cheat is deeper than this: most of the time, with college requirements getting higher, students struggle to reach those requirements without a little help sometimes. Students resort to cheating because of GPA, pressure, and reward. To start, GPAs are simple, the higher grade you get, the higher your GPA will be. To be eligible to play in any school athletics, a student's GPA must remain above 2.3. Colleges look at GPAs and can determine whether or not to accept students based on them. So, for a student, maintaining your GPA can mean the world to them, because they know that if they don't keep it up they won't be able to play the sport they love, or they won't be able to get into a school. a good college and start a good life. “Students may choose to cheat in various ways to gain an advantage with their grades or to help them get better grades in class” (Wood). So these GPAs may cause some student-athletes to want to cheat. Having to sit in school for seven hours, then do sports for three hours, leaves very little time to be able to study six subjects and do homework for all of them. “Students turn to cheating to ease the burden of homework that often takes as many hours to complete as a full-time job” (Wood). Some student-athletes who don't cheat stay up into the morning hours leaving them the chance of five hours of… half the paper… is wrong Cheating has its positives and negatives, but it really boils down to whether students want to improve themselves as students by studying, or simply move on to. full marks and cheating. So, if you reconsider the question, if we all cheat, who really does it more? Works CitedArcher, January. "The Effects of Students Getting Caught Cheating in College." March 2, 2014Kennedy, Robert. “The Top 3 Reasons Why Students Cheat.” About.com, nd Web.March 2, 2014Konnikova, “Inside the Minds of Cheaters.” New Yorker, October 31, 2013. Web. March 2, 2014Stephens, Jason. "Cheat." go.galegroup.com. Gale Virtual Reference Library, nd Web. March 2, 2014 Wood, Rowan. “What are the causes of college cheating?” Classroom.Synonym.com. DemandMedia and Web. 2 March 2014