@Omar and @Hakim, please ask your questions on the main site, so that I have enough motivation to writer extensive answers, because it will be always there and useful for future visitors interested in the topic.

@infatuated well chats are always there too but of course questions are easier to find. And definitely the points that are being raised could form a really constructive question worth having an good and well researched answer.

Salam brothers

What's more, my mother has told me that it's fine to use what my friend has told me

What should I do?

Thanks in advance

what is an RS exam?

@goldPseudo Religious Studies

It's like a half term test

i don't think knowing what sorts of questions will be on the test counts as cheating, as long as you're not being told what the answers will be.

as in, the test still ends up being a judge of your actual knowledge.

@goldPseudo Essentially, what he gave me tells me what I have to revise for whereas if I would have not have known that, I would have revised everything and possibly did a little worse

still doesn't seem to be a problem. the test itself is still an accurate representation of "this student knows this particular stuff" which is fundamentally what it's for.

it's not like the test counts for 100% of your term mark?

I see, thanks a lot for your time

Very helpful advice

Bye

fundamentally, the way i see it is: if the test itself is supposed to represent "he knows everything in this class" then you only knowing the particular bits of the test needed to pass would be considered cheating. but if the test is just one part of the whole term mark, it doesn't claim to represent the entirety of your knowledge.

it represents you knowing a particular subset of the knowledge, with the entirety of the term mark being based on your overall knowledge over multiple tests/participation/etc.