How to deal with being compared to cheaters?

People cheat using phones, xerox copies, discuss with each other, ask PGTs/Interns/Profs for answers and the combined effort fetches many of them distinctions.

And at the end, parents, profs, batchmates alike start comparing us with those who cheated & scored more. At times i wonder what’s the point of studying even & how long this is gonna go on. Every year, some people cheat & score. Meanwhile we have to bust our ass off to prepare well. I don’t mind the fact that they’re cheating, what pisses me off is how people just start comparing us with them solely based on marks. As if all the effort on our side was for nothing.