Cherry's Note
Do the things that worth for you to do!
REFLECTION ON ETHICS
One of my experience in Taylor’s University that raised an ethical issue during my first semester. It is typical, in week 13 or 14 for each subject might have a revision week. I know it is when lecturer do review and sum up the overall topics that we have gone through during the whole semester. However, there is an incident where my Lecturer totally reveal the exam questions to us in the week before our final exam.
It was happened when our lecturer talk about many seniors previously had failed on his subject and with that concern he reminded us to study hard. At first, all of us were humurously asking lecturer about the exact questions that would be imposed in final exam. Next, Lecturer started to tell us the structure on the question. I thought that it was the limitation of the roughly tips that he would give us, however it didn’t stop there. Then, he gave us some questions to discuss the answer and claim that it is sufficient by only reading the question related topic in preparing for final exam. Ultimately, during the exam session I was shocked and found out that Essay questions was exactly the same with the one we discussed on the last tutorial class.
In a moraI aspect, it can be a good solution and I am appreciate that he want to be a helpful person by putting his effort to pull our mark and avoid us to fail on his subject. However in ethical standard, he has violent his job professionally as a lecturer by revealing the final exam question indirectly. Meanwhile, I am feel happy, because I knowed what I am going to answer in the exam paper easily. However, after I finished the test and know the result, sometimes it makes me feel guilty since that is not based on my real knowledge in scoring an A for it. I could say throughout this experience, I am afraid that it unitentionally change my mindset by putting less effort in learning, because I might assume that there will be a tip again for final exam.
NevertheIess in the rest of my semester, I keep remind myself in order to gain a good mark we need to rely on ourselves, not from others. In future of my life, I would analogy that I will always try to do my best in everything that I do and perceive the tips from lecturer is only the small part of additional elements that we can leverage on in boosting and supporting our big goal. Finally based on my lecturer unethical behaviour, I would to conclude that sometimes we can do some unethical behaviour as long as we can justify it with a reasonable factors that lead us to do so (eg: for the sake of the student’s mark and there is no one being disadvantage as a consequence on it), eventhough it is a bad thing to do.
