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Re:Is the era of the $100 graphing calculator coming to an end? by zerocrates on Monday September 23, 2019 @04:50PM (#21053480)
The law schools and bar exams have now settled on software that reboots a computer into a limited environment just for testing, where the administrators get to configure what kinds of features like copy and paste or spell-check are available (and of course, no stored memory from beforehand, or web access).

The DC bar had just moved from typewriters (with the same "lines of memory" restriction you mentioned) to computers for its essay portions when I took the exam only a handful of years ago.

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Re:Is the era of the $100 graphing calculator coming to an end? by massysett on Monday September 23, 2019 @07:39PM (#21054952)
When I was in law school this was called ExamSoft. Inevitably it would screw up someone’s computer before the exam, holding everything up. In my last semester the school stopper using it. We could type exams in Word and we were told simply that under the honor code we couldn’t cheat.

Reminds me of a “Leave It to Beaver” when Wally cheated (or tried to) by going to the bathroom and getting paper towels with the answers. It’s ridiculous to spend resources to lock down computers when there are much simpler ways to cheat.

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