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They Were Every Student’s Worst Nightmare. Now (because of ChatGPT) Blue Books Are Back.
The Wall Street Journal ^ | May 23, 2025 | Ben Cohen

Posted on 05/25/2025 3:57:36 PM PDT by DoodleBob

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21 posted on 05/25/2025 4:17:35 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: DoodleBob

Many of them believe students should be using AI to get smarter.

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Professors said this? Tells a lot!


22 posted on 05/25/2025 4:17:48 PM PDT by sonova (No money? You're free to go.)
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To: dfwgator

Charlie Kirk has a knack of exposing campus students. He would be an excellent professor for oral exams.


23 posted on 05/25/2025 4:17:50 PM PDT by HonkyTonkMan ( )
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To: DoodleBob

Using AI to get smarter is smart. Using Blue Books for them to prove they’re smarter is smart, too.


24 posted on 05/25/2025 4:19:53 PM PDT by jacknhoo (Luke 12:51; Think ye, that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, no; but separation.)
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To: UnwashedPeasant

They can barely write in print, UP.


25 posted on 05/25/2025 4:20:14 PM PDT by one guy in new jersey
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To: DoodleBob

Should never have gone away.


26 posted on 05/25/2025 4:20:16 PM PDT by Salman (Avoid foreign entanglements.)
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To: Fungi

AI was like the discovery of nuclear power.

With nuclear power you can then build amazing power plants or blow up the planet.

Humans have done the first—and had some close calls and almost done the second.


27 posted on 05/25/2025 4:21:19 PM PDT by cgbg (It was not us. It was them--all along.)
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To: cgbg

Well said.


28 posted on 05/25/2025 4:23:11 PM PDT by Fungi
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To: Gnome1949

Applauding your ability and diligence. Bet it had major positive effects on your life to date. Well done!


29 posted on 05/25/2025 4:24:02 PM PDT by mairdie
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To: algore; Mariner
There are three FR threads on calculators/the HP-12C that were awesome.


30 posted on 05/25/2025 4:24:08 PM PDT by DoodleBob (Gravity's waiting period is about 9.8 m/s² )
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To: DoodleBob

Remember filling two blue books during my final exam in biology. Still remember the first question of 2. Name, describe function, and illustrate the parts of the plant and animal cell.


31 posted on 05/25/2025 4:24:57 PM PDT by mware
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To: dfwgator

The answer is….four?


32 posted on 05/25/2025 4:26:55 PM PDT by DoodleBob (Gravity's waiting period is about 9.8 m/s² )
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To: algore

At some point in middle school, my math teacher brought a (large) handheld calculator that could add, subtract, multiply and divide that her husband used at NASA. She left it on top of her desk and someone stole it. An announcement came over the PA saying it cost some crazy amount and the FBI had been called regarding its disappearance and it better be returned before they arrived.

You can probably buy a calculator that does more for a buck from a bucket at the impulse buy area at the checkout counter today.


33 posted on 05/25/2025 4:28:50 PM PDT by Clay Moore (My pistol identifies as a cordless hole punch. )
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To: DoodleBob

Whats college?


34 posted on 05/25/2025 4:29:17 PM PDT by Delta 21 (None of us are descendants of fearful men!)
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To: DoodleBob

Way back in the late 90’s i had to take a proficiency test at work.
My co-worker suggested that i just enter the questions into google.
i was like “huh?”


35 posted on 05/25/2025 4:31:09 PM PDT by mowowie
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To: sauropod

I have a modest proposal.

Instead of debates for the primaries, give every candidate a Blue Book.

Have them sit down, with a camera in their Blue Book.

Have the moderator ask 20 questions. The candidates have 5 min to write their responses. Once done, hand in the Blue Books.

Livestream these jackwagons writing out their answers. Or, put it on pay per view to pay off the federal debt or upload the scanned-in Blue Books to a paywalled website.


36 posted on 05/25/2025 4:33:33 PM PDT by DoodleBob (Gravity's waiting period is about 9.8 m/s² )
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37 posted on 05/25/2025 4:33:38 PM PDT by lightman (Beat the Philly fraud machine the Amish did onest, ja? Nein, zweimal they did already!)
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To: dfwgator

Oral exams are so open to abuse that it’s scary they’re still allowed in Europe. In today’s litigious victimhood oriented student body, a professor would be insane to give oral exams instead of just requiring anonymous bluebooks or typed exams. (There are exam software packages that just turn the students’ laptops into typewriters with no internet access).


38 posted on 05/25/2025 4:33:43 PM PDT by FateAmenableToChange
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To: DoodleBob

I’ve never heard of them. I only remember those little composition books with the black mottled cover.


39 posted on 05/25/2025 4:36:13 PM PDT by skr (1 Peter 1:15 - But as he which hath called you is holy, so be ye holy in all manner of conversation)
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To: DoodleBob

I remember those. I am ancient.


40 posted on 05/25/2025 4:36:16 PM PDT by lastchance (Cognovit Dominus qui sunt eius.)
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