Depends on their skill level, and how much focus there was on the process of engraving vs temporarily memorizing the next block of info to transcribe.
After a whole day of char-by-char input.. I knew everything by heart and didn't need to look it up in the calculator.
Unfortunately, there was a foreign student that was so ahead of everyone, that he simply increased the difficulty of the tests and would curve them, excluding that one student from the curve. It was normal for most of the class to get 60s-70s, while this student would get 90s on his exams. I say unfortunately, but only jokingly.
"Timmy missed the exam because her grand-ma is dead, so I'm giving him a 0 everybody else an extra 10%"
Years later, police discovered evidence Sally replaced Timmy’s grandma’s insulin bottle contents with glucose in order to pass that test.
Fortunately more recent exams that I've taken allowed the use of a single sheet of paper as a cheat sheet.
I still have my 48GX. Though I never used it at an exam. As computer science student I simply never had any exams that required a calculator. I just had it for personal interests.
I used the serial cable to hook it up to my computer and loaded it with minigames, to play during class.
You can tell I was not the best of students.
I keep dreaming of modding a 48 series to snatch an esp mcu in it.
It doesn't really aid understanding, doesn't incorporate active recall, and tends to become inefficient for a large corpus of knowledge.
We deliberately have some, though. There's some stuff that's just helpful to memorize to be able to do more active work and understanding with (multiplication tables, basic chemical formulas, sets of trig identities). There's also some stuff inserted (poem memorization, latin & greek roots for one grade, all 50 states for another, etc) just to strengthen the skill of learning by rote for when it's useful later.
"Oh, I remember I saw something like that in school, let me Google it!"
Medicine, like law, involves a lot of memorization.
This seems like a good thing, not a bad thing.
I'd MUCH prefer to have a doctor verify a diagnosis with reference material than to have them rely on their memory.
Yes, it's useful to have that knowledge already, and to that I'd say that copying out a textbook is a poor way to learn. It's far better to know the processes behind things or to learn through experience.
Also it's an ever changing field of course.
edit: but still far from 35000 dollars :D
Like, if there was a question that was easy to answer if you could look at a reference sheet, then why is it important to memorize it? If the test take could understand the question enough to know where to look it up, isn't that good enough?
Would you hire an engineer who couldn't write a FizzBuzz without looking it up?
Yes?
I mean, even after 20 years of writing code professionally, I still don't remember the exact syntax for main methods for each language. Is it public static void main(String args[]) {} for Java, or is it something else? Will I remember that even when I've mostly been coding in Golang this week? Probably not.
I don't remember any of this. I don't remember that it's int main(int argc, char *argv[]); in C, or fn main() -> Result<(), Box<dyn ::std::error::Error> {} in Rust, or package main \n func main() {} in Go; I derive it anew each time based on my understanding of the language.
And I wouldn't hire me to write C code, because I can't remember where the `const`s go. All I remember is that you shouldn't really use them here, because you're expected to be able to modify argv (and sometimes you have to, e.g. to redact passwords that somebody foolishly provided on the command line). And I remember that #include <stdio.h> lets you use size_t, but don't ask me why.
Then again, I guess I'm proving your point. I could write fizzbuzz easily in C – perhaps more easily than in any language I'm good at – but that doesn't make me a good person to hire if you want a C programmer.
(If the issue is one of time sensitivity then the test should have an aggressive time limit)
Now their engineering school’s seats are sold for more than that.
He was caught because he was noticed shuffling a wad of pens too often & then the bifocal glasses were peculiar, prompting some investigation.
He had paid the grain-engraving artist to the tune of $30,000-35,000 for the whole set (2006). It is a lot of money!