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Re:You can‘t take the Bar exam if your laptop is too modern by shard on Wednesday July 13, 2022 @04:02PM (#32088076)
This might shock and amaze you, but I took many midterms and finals for my CS and EE classes using pencil and paper in the 21st century, and this was at a well-known Californian private university.
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Re:You can‘t take the Bar exam if your laptop is too modern by endless1234 on Wednesday July 13, 2022 @04:53PM (#32088618)
Were everybody else also doing it on pen & paper, or were you the only one?
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Re:You can‘t take the Bar exam if your laptop is too modern by shard on Wednesday July 13, 2022 @06:34PM (#32089582)
Good question :)

Yes, all students took the test together on paper and pencil in the classroom; a digital version of the test was not available.

I just went through my files to check, and indeed the final exam for my artificial intelligence class was in-class, 2 hours, pen only (no pencil).

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Re:You can‘t take the Bar exam if your laptop is too modern by endless1234 on Thursday July 14, 2022 @07:54AM (#32094706)
My point being that it's quite different if everyone does it on pen & paper. If you're the only one, it's a disadvantage to do an essay exam on paper when your competition does it on laptops, no?
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Re:You can‘t take the Bar exam if your laptop is too modern by csmcg on Wednesday July 13, 2022 @05:37PM (#32089063)
? Every exam I ever took for my BS in EE was pen and paper. 2015-2020.
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