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- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 93 08:10:31 MST
- From: dougc@bert.cs.byu.edu (Douglas R. Cannon)
- Organization: BYU, Provo, Utah
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp48
- Subject: Re: Taking exams?
- References: <20JAN199318324539@scsuc.ctstateu.edu> <hdev.727606965@dutiai>
- <1993Jan21.160756.63009@cc.usu.edu>
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- In article <1993Jan21.160756.63009@cc.usu.edu> slp9k@cc.usu.edu writes:
-
- >> 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:
- >
- > 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 is just a rumor. I have no idea if 2 students actually did this or not,
- but HP48 calculators are allowed in tests at BYU. In fact, Dr. Garner, a
- math proffessor, uses an HP48 overhead in classes, and gives code to his
- students for various math functions. He heavily encourages the use of
- HP48 and HP28 calculators to enhance your learning.
-
- The testing center does have some TI calculators available, so if some
- prof doesn't allow HP's, then the student can get a TI for the test, however,
- this is completely up to the prof. There has been no blanket rule for
- the entire campus (or even one entire dept. that I know of) to ban HP48
- calculators.
-
- If I ever hear such a rumor here on campus about 2 students that successfully
- hobbled the HP48 receiver, then I will certainally tell it here.
-
- > 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?
-
- Well, I guess the question still exists as to whether it can be done.
-
-
- Later,
-
- Doug Cannon
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-