Okay so I just took my midterm 1 exam for Calculus, anyways my professor wasn’t doing the seating of every other one, and instead he told us to all sit at the front, and the back rows were empty, anyways my row was fully empty with me and maybe like 2 people who were really spread out, this girl comes in, sits directly next to me, keep in mind only 3 people including me were in the row so the seats there were so much room. She sits next to me, and at first I was like “what ever more people are going to fill up the seats” which did happen but the seats next to here which were 3 were empty. Meaning she could have moved.
Throughout the exam I kept seeing her glance over at my paper and also I had no clue what I was doing so she’s going to fail either way.
Anyways the professor comes around takes a look at my exam version and her exam version and they were both the same. He let us finish the exam he didn’t say anything. When I go and put my exam to turn it in he puts it away from the rest of the piles and not in the pile d. At first I’m a bit skeptical right so I hang by the class untill it’s just a few more people in the room. He accused me of cheating, said I was helping someone else cheat. So I look at the pile and it’s just my paper there and not the other girls. So I’m like thinking to myself why is hers not there. Turns out she said I was looking at her paper.
How cooked am I? It’s a her word against mine. I told the professor that I didn’t do good in the exam and in my recitation quizzes so if I did cheat on this exam I would have gotten a 100 which would not accurately represent the ones in my recitation which would mean I definitely cheated however that’s not the case , I told him I struggled taking this exam.
Anyone ever been accused of cheating?
Edit: thank you everyone for your help even Dr G commented, I talked to my professor all is good, my exam is not being voided and I don’t have to retake the exam, I always attend lectures, office hours and recitations so he had a better understanding of my plea versus the girl. So yay no longer have to retake it.