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.
"Oh, I remember I saw something like that in school, let me Google it!"
Medicine, like law, involves a lot of memorization.
Also it's an ever changing field of course.
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.
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.