A detailed study of college-level physics courses confirms students’ deepest fears: Homework really is important. Students who regularly copied problem sets earned lower grades and were three times as likely to fail the class, the study found.
MEANS TO NO GOOD END As copying goes up, grades go down. The chart shows overall trends in exam performance for four levels of copying.
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