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Hand written exams are coming back into fashion. You get a pencil and the exam book. Nothing else. Show your work.

Catching cheaters is still hard but it will keep honest people more honest.

But if I were struggling with an assignment, stuck on a problem, I would have turned to AI after a few minutes of trying to figure it out, and thus lost out on the actual character-forming and memory-building aspects of college assignments.

>You get a pencil and the exam book. Nothing else. Show your work.

Back in my day this was the only way!

Well, scantron cards for testing became more common near the end of school.

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