Re: Testing job applicants

[jmfbahciv@aol.com]

In article <RyvxN9tIUu44V365lIc3kXo4PtwZ@4ax.com>,
   z80@ds1.com (Peter) wrote:
>
>>How is reliable cheating possible without illegally (typically
>>by breaking and entering) getting hold of the exam papers or
>>model answers?   You can still cheat by looking over someone
>>else's answers in the exam room, but that's seldom worthwhile
>>(if the question's so difficult you don't have a clue, chances
>>are the person whose answers you can see can't do it correctly
>>either) and easy to detect.
>
>The normal way to cheat in exams is to have a piece of paper with
>formulae etc written on it, but that gets a lot less useful in higher
>education.

That's cheating?  I always made sure that we were allowed that
device.  I never memorized such stuff in my work if I could
look it up.  The only formulations I had memorized were the
ones I used often.

/BAH

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