I can certainly appreciate your concerns but receiving an email about a shady activity does not mean you are guilty of anything, especially when you have done nothing wrong. If it did, most people on WSO (and everywhere) should be worried.

 

Nobody who used the test bank is cheating. To be honest I find it pretty dumb that you didn't. Please let me know your classmates' names so I know who the smart kids from your school are.

Only cheater here is the professor who isn't doing her job.

 

Exactly - OP if you told me this in an interview I'd think very hard about hiring someone who blatantly disregards resources at your disposal.

I can't even begin to explain to you how serious the crime is - it's like having the WSO hedge fund guide and not even using it prior to your HF interviews...

 
PteroGonzalez:
Nobody who used the test bank is cheating. To be honest I find it pretty dumb that you didn't. Please let me know your classmates' names so I know who the smart kids from your school are.

Only cheater here is the professor who isn't doing her job.

Was thinking the same thing - happy I'm not alone on this. I had a professor that reused questions - once I figured that out all I did was study past questions. That's not cheating, that's called strategy.

Cheating is pulling out your phone during a test OP, not studying more efficiently.

 

A large part of my job is making educated guesses from incomplete information. The original post has been deleted, but it sounds like a professor posts a question bank online, then pulls questions from it for the tests. Studying the question bank isn't cheating, it is being smarter and more efficient than everyone else. Sure, I could recreate all of the research from the EMH onwards, but why would I when I can just read the papers from the people who have?

If anything, it is the professor's fault for having too few questions in the question bank, or using questions from it in the first place.

The only difference between Asset Management and Investment Research is assets. I generally see somebody I know on TV on Bloomberg/CNBC etc. once or twice a week. This sounds cool, until I remind myself that I see somebody I know on ESPN five days a week.
 

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