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> How is it fair if one group can see the Chemistry 101 exam from the previous year?

Back when I studied the school would openly distribute old exams - complete with solutions.

And no, not everyone got an A despite this, and yes, I still remember my maths (helped someone the other day, I guess it is about 15 years since last time touched it.)

The student chapters of ACM and IEEE-CS at my university kept test banks with full knowledge of the CSE and EE departments. It was allowed by the honor code as long as the tests had previously been used. The university basically neutralized the advantage Greeks had with their test banks by requiring professors to come up with unique tests each time.

It screws everyone out of the know because it screws up the curve.

don't today's students simply photograph the exams while they're taking them?