Should I tell the truth?

[Anonymous]

I was drawn here by this question, I have an interest in the area of academic honesty.

If you take advantage of this situation you will devalue all the effort of all those who have done real work to gain academic distinction at whatever level. You will devalue all the hard work of those who will in future make the effort to achieve academic excellence at any level.

The work that universities and colleges do has been devalued enough in the last few years by government and other interference, you wouldn't be helping by taking advantage of this situation.

You asked for advice, here it is. Report this to the authorities at your institution and live with the consequences. They're unlikely to be harsh on you, you're protecting the integrity of their product. The consequences for your lecturer will be harsh, he may lose his job. This will protect the many people who may lose their jobs or find jobs difficult to get when it emerges that they've got worthless degrees.

If you really want to get a degree without work there are numerous degree mills out there who will sell you one for a very reasonable price.

Failing this, come back to us in January when you've actually sat the exam and let us know if what he showed you really were the questions. If it turns out the paper has different questions than the ones you've been led to expect what are you going to do? When you walk into an exam there's nothing to beat knowing your subject.

To those on this thread advocating dishonesty, frankly words fail me.

To an extent I agree with you but I don't know, but this goes in all of the time, I have never been party to this ever in my life I have never in my life cheated academically. The way I am seeing it I didn't ask him to put the paper up on the projector screen I genuinely had a question about the exam and he just did this. As for working hard I have sacrificed so much out of my life to do my degree and I am the type of student who goes in at 7am in the morning to revise and do work till about 2pm everyday when my lectures happen. I haven't willingly asked for this to happen I haven't stolen an exam paper then used it, it was up on the projector. I have always put my studies in front of everything in my life, when my cousin passed away last year I didn't even go to the funeral so I could do an exam which I couldn't have been excused for because the university deemed it unnecessary. Although I agree with your principles I am not the paragon of justice and I honestly think I will have to turn a blind eye to this, I cannot risk my academic career for the silliness of my lecturer.