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The Matthew Effect is a series of academically questionable actions preformed by a student in order to achieve a letter grade of a B or higher in his/her classes. Examples include, but are not limited to: Purposefully submitting corrupted files for grading, completing assignments weeks after the assigned due date, and outright forgetting the assignment in question even existed.
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