[Niall]

Originally Posted by Kizzy

One overiding factor here is that exams (for the majority anyway)
avoid the prospect of cheating?
You can cut and paste essays and ask clever mates/mums to 'help' with coursework?
That, I would say is a big argument for them I suppose.

I haven't heard of a single person who's gotten away with plagiarism in my school (or in any other school near me) in their coursework. They are very, very rigorous with that. People underestimate it a lot.

And if we're gonna go down that road, is it not cheating if one kid uses a revision guide whilst another doesn't? That is in a way, an unfair advantage, just as someone helping another person on their coursework is (which, again, is a rare occurrence).