You won’t be able to use your Surface Book if you want to take the bar in Tennessee

The Verge ^ | Jun 18, 2017 | Andrew Liptak

[Dalberg-Acton]

Can’t see why anyone in there right mind would buy a $2000 disposable, unrepairable laptop.

[ifinnegan]

“Wouldn’t a hidden dual boot with linux and a split screen allow for cheating?”

I can’t say.

This test software takes over the computer, I don’t know all the details.

ExamSoft is an example I know.

[dayglored]

> ...I still use the calculators for speed but if the answer doesn’t ‘look’ right, I do it by hand for verification...

Exactly. I was very fortunate to have learned how to use a slide rule in high school, a few years before hand calculators came out. As a result I learned how to "sanity check" my calculations ("Does that seem about right or not?").

I bought an HP-35 in college when they first came out, but I still sanity-checked its results. And I was astonished and dismayed at how many of my fellow physics and engineering students were all too eager to take whatever their calculators displayed as "gospel".

I still have a couple of slide rules around the house. And use them from time to time. They make me think.

[sagar]

“We took the bar exam with paper and a No. 2 pencil and were glad to have them.”

In our days, we used tablets. Stone tablets and chisel tools.