r/berkeley • u/Chemical-Island5238 • 19h ago
University HELP! Academic misconduct advice
I recently took the Bio 1AL exam. The instructor said not to talk 2-3 times. After the exam, me and my friend were talking about the difficulty of the exam while we were waiting in line to turn in our papers. We were also flipping through our exam. Nothing else happened.
The instructor caught us, said we were talking, then took our exam. He said the student misconduct office will reach out to us and there's nothing we can do.
I just emailed the student advocate office, and I'm hoping that this will be just passed on as a warning and I will still receive normal grading. Is that possible? Does anyone have any advice on what to do, or what they think will happen? I admit that we shouldn't have been talking but I genuinely wasn't cheating in any way.
Thanks for reading

