Good afternoon, Ladies and Gentlemen. My name is Hyun Kyung Lee. I'm a senior at Daejin University, and my major is Korean Language and Literature. Today. I'm so glad to tell you about an interesting topic. Please think about  this while you listen to my speech.
        First, may I ask you a question? Have you ever cheated on an examination? If you asked me the same question, I'd have to reply, "Yes," because I have--or at least I've tried. When I was a high school student, one day I had an English vocabulary test. At that time, I didn't memorize the words, so I wrote down some words on my hand before I took the test. But I couldn't see any of them, because they were erased by sweat. Another time, I wrote some notes down on a little piece of paper, but I could never look at them, because I wasn't brave enough to look at that paper.
        There are so many funny stories about cheating. I'll tell you some I know. My friend didn't study enough to take a test, so he wrote down some notes on his wrist. During the test, the professor handed out the test papers to the students, but there weren't enough, so he needed one more paper. He raised his hand and said, "Sir, I need one more paper." Can you guess what happened? Yes, the professor saw his wrist, so he couldn't take the test. Another person I know wrote down notes on his desk for almost one hour before the test. But his friend rubbed then out without knowing what they were, so he couldn't read any of them.
        I'll ask you one other question. How many cheating methods do you know? There are a lot of ways, for example, writing on your desk, or on a small piece of paper, or on your hand, looking at another student's paper, and so on. These days, some students even use ultramodern ways. They use their mobile phones. One student finishes the examination quickly, and then he goes out and sends the answers to another student in a mobile phone message. I'd like to tell you more examples, but if I did that, students wouldn't be able to use those ways anymore. As time goes on, more ways of cheating come into being, and the cheaters become more clever. The supervisors of examinations try to stop cheating. They control the students strictly. For example, sometimes they change the desks and classrooms before the test. But the ways of cheating always seem to stay one step ahead of the ways to stop cheating.
        While I was preparing this speech a question occurred to me. Why do people cheat on examinations? Why do they cheat even though there is risk? Why? I asked this question to people around me. All of them answered like this: "To get a good mark." I agree. Students cheat on examinations because they want to get a good mark. Then, why do they want to get a good mark? I think it's because people judge others by their test marks. If students get good marks, they are judged as a good person. If they don't, they can't be judged as a good person. It means people always make much more of the result than the process.
        Please look at this paper. It's one of my class schedules. Here is the grading system for the class. 10% is participation; 20% is for quizzes; 30% is for the midterm exam, and 40% is for the final exam. The midterm and final tests are 70% of this class grade. In most of my classes, the midterm and final tests are over 50%. So we think the tests are the most important things in the class.
        Still more, we take tests everywhere, but I think we can't know how much we learn during one term just from test scores. To estimate how much we learn in a course is not only important but also difficult. So the test can be a good way to estimate people's ability to understand the course material. The important thing is our attitude toward tests. So people have to think about what you can really get from a test, not just the points. A good mark which is earned by honest effort is more valuable. I'd like to tell people who cheat that the time you spend studying and preparing before the test is more important than the results of the test. In the end, cheating is just to cheat and trick yourself--not the supervisors of the examinations.
        Thank you for listening.