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Posted on 06/18/2017 5:17:49 PM PDT by dayglored
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So, can you use a laptop with TrueOS? Why or why not?
It’s the test software.
It takes over the computer until the test is over.
Apparently it’s not able to on this computer. Test takers could conceivably cheat.
We took the bar exam with paper and a No. 2 pencil and were glad to have them.
Wouldn’t a hidden dual boot with linux and a split screen allow for cheating?
You must be older than me. I used a very fat ball point pen for all the writing required. No erasures allowed, but you could scratch out.
Oy. Hope that was different states...
When you wrote “Take the Bar” the mental image I had was a scene from “Cheers” with Norm bringing in his lap-top.
The Creators update iss unwelcome in my house also! I downloaded it two days ago and the bastards broke my blue tooth.
Me too. Took two and and passed each the first time. I was one of those weird guys who liked studying for the bar exam. I learned a lot more about the law studying for the exam than I did in law school.
in other words some incompetent government contract created the software.
“we are from the government and we are here to help”
In the late 70s had to take a state sponsored test for a Bituminous Concrete (Asphalt) ‘license’ and the ‘rules’ were that if you used a calculator you must get the answer correct but if you did it by hand they checked the formula(s) you used and if they were correct the answer was not always important.
Course in that ‘line of work’ not a whole lot of field people used ‘them thar machines’....
Guess they figured if you ‘knew’ how to figure it out the #s would fall in place.
I still use the calculators for speed but if the answer doesn’t ‘look’ right, I do it by hand for verification.
BTW....Sort of remember that TI costing about 100 bucks and basically all it did was add, subtract and multiply etc...
Today they do logarithms etc, and are stocking stuffers....<: <: <:
I always carry a little six ring binder. No batteries, no update problems, and nobody wants to steal it.
Creators update is very tough on processes it deems malicious.
Detachable keyboard = someone can remotely enter answers.
Take a damn pencil.
As a part time professor who used classroom computers to administer final exams:
I once had a student buy answers to the exam, online, during the exam. Caught him because he didn’t understand some side-effects of copy-and-paste.
Figure he lost over $300 to fail the exam anyway (that’s _without_ the getting-caught part).
We only had clay tablets and sticks in my day. Of course, the exam didn’t have very many questions either.
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