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- From: slp9k@cc.usu.edu
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp48
- Subject: Re: Taking exams?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan21.160756.63009@cc.usu.edu>
- Date: 21 Jan 93 16:07:56 MDT
- References: <20JAN199318324539@scsuc.ctstateu.edu> <hdev.727606965@dutiai>
- Organization: Utah State University
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- >
- > Hm..., six feet? Is that the distance between you and your neighbour during
- > your next exam :-)? But more seriously: this will be the next *major* problem
- > with calcs like the HP48 during exams.
- >
- This is just a rumor I heard, so maybe someone at BYU can confirm it.
- I do not attend BYU, nor do I know electronics so don't ask me how
- anything was done.
- The rumor went something like this:
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- The reciver on the HP is limited through hard wiring. So some students
- At BYU bypassed the wiring and were sending answers across the room to each
- other during a test. Somehow or other the professor caught them and the use of
- HP-48's has been banned for all tests at BYU.
-
- This raises the question of whether this can really be done. If so I'm
- afraid that all schools would have to ban the 48 during tests. Isn't
- technology great?
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- Disclaimer: I don't care
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