Do students cheat due to pressure? Academic cheating has always been frowned upon by society and considered the easy way out. From a teacher's perspective, cheating can be unethical. On the other hand, from a student's perspective, cheating can be a necessary survival skill in school. Society has always focused solely on how terrible cheating is, but has never considered the pressures that essentially cause students to cheat. Many pressures contribute to academic dishonesty, such as pressure to succeed, pressure for positive recognition, and pressure to complete the assignment even if the teacher cannot explain the material. There are various forms of academic cheating; the modalities of this act are certainly not limited. Cheating can range from taking credit for someone else's work knowing it's not yours or being a liar to extend a deadline. However, using prohibited reference materials (such as books or notes) on an exam, copying answers from someone else's test, and/or falsifying data are more specific methods of cheating. Cheating is not a new problem, but it is certainly becoming more of a problem in schools. This is an ongoing issue that has continued since testing began. The only difference now is that thousands of years ago academic dishonesty was committed out of ignorance and was not taken very seriously. Punishments for this dishonest action were taken lightly in the past, but nowadays, as this has increasingly become an intentional act, society has portrayed it as a negative in academics and teachers look down on it. This is becoming a problem at school that seems like it will never end and will never have an answer to. Although it is very likely that students copy other students' test answers to cheat; not all tests are physically taken with students