Some professors have a problem with new Web site PostYourTest.com that lets students anonymously share past exams online.

Other students can then access them if they take the same class.

The concept behind the site isn't new. Students have shared their exams with friends in the past, and they will definitely continue to do so in the future. This Web site just makes it easier and more modern. It also expands the range of sharing.

Depending on students' majors or what classes they're taking, professors may either let them keep the exam and hand in a Scantron or separate piece of paper, or ask that they turn in the tests along with the answers.

Professors who let students take copies of their exams with them must realize their responsibility to either change their exams for other sections or semesters, or accept that the questions may be floating around from student to student.

We can understand why professors who collect tests might be upset upon finding one of their exams out in the open; they collected the exams for a reason. And those professors can request that their exams be removed -- if they even know the site exists.

Granted, there is some subject material within courses that doesn't change much from semester to semester -- history, for example.

But come on. If those professors are noticing better grades from semester to semester, they should consider it just might not be because they're getting better at lecturing.

The work required of professors to create new exams has to be less than that of the stress associated with wondering if their old exams have somehow been passed around. But if students are putting in their time and energy to learn the material, professors should do the same to make sure the exam scenario is fair.

Maybe, if students feel compelled to cheat, the exams are too difficult or they believe their professors don't care.

If that's so, there are bigger issues than those posed by a Web site that could be a potential breeding ground for cheating.

No matter the level of the course or the competence of the professor, there will always be slackers and students who have missed one too many lectures to pass the exams. And those individuals will always be compelled to take the easy way out.

This site allows them to do that at the click of a button.

Cheating isn't cool, and students have no right to preview the exact version of an exam they have yet to take.

Perhaps there can someday be a middle ground between the teachers and the students, where exams can be studied for without the worry of being bombarded with inordinately difficult questions, and proctored without the worry that everyone already knows the answers.