Obviously you'd be required to decrypt anything they tell you to. You are required to cooperate until they feel confident that you aren't cheating.

I find it kind of weird that they use their own computers on a test.

Forget your passphrase, it’s a school, they can’t exactly hold you in contempt.

Google translate: "Otherwise, the school has the right to punish by, for example, detaining the student's private property for up to a day or completely expelling the student from school."

Also: "The draft states, among other things, that the examiner must give the school access to investigate the content of resources, search history and log files as well as the use of materials, social media accounts, and further on the Internet. "

> right to punish by, for example, detaining the student's private property for up to a day

No it fucking doesn't. Not on any planet I'd be willing to live on.

Ridicule and shame are appropriate here.

Teachers confiscating the [prohibited thing] has been around since... practically forever. I don't know what the fuss is about?

That's a good point. I guess I just feel my computer / phone is an intimate part of my mind.

Maybe I'm over reacting. Probably.

I'm sure that wouldn't in any way lead to a series of legal challenges to this decision...

It's one thing to announce a policy, another to kick out a kid who claims to have honestly forgotten a password.

Or don't bring your own laptop as an aid to the exam.

Bring a netbook.. or backup your laptop and do a clean install before going to the exam.