Norway Trying Out Laptops For High School Exams 120
The BBC reports that Norway is experimenting with a system that would let secondary school students take their school exams on laptop computers. According to the article, using computers for exams isn't new there, but it's been on fixed machines rather than personal computers that the students can take with them and use for other purposes throughout the school day. Having suffered through three years of exams taken on the awful SoftTest (inflexible, single-platform, ugly, buggy), I hope they do a better job — this is something that is all too easy to get wrong.
Should be from the redundant redundancy dept. (Score:4, Funny)
News: Norway Trying Out Laptops For High School School Exams
Here, let me fix that. Let's go all the way:
News News: Norway Norway Trying Trying Out Out Laptops Laptops For For High High School School Exams Exams
Now you can read the headline in STEREO (be happy it's not quadraphonic or 7.1 surround sound :-)
Re:Should be from the redundant redundancy dept. (Score:4, Funny)
Yo Dawg, we heard you like headlines so we put a headline in your headline so you can read while you read
Ironic (Score:5, Funny)
Re:I wish i had that in my day (Score:1, Funny)
ya see that way I would have got into a posh college and I'd be surrounded by people with iPhones and doing hot chicks with preppy clothes and messy hair who drink expensive coffee.
Alternatively you can get the same experience by going to Starbucks and save yourself $40,000 a year in the process.
Re:Is it secure? (Score:2, Funny)
My security is currently at level 5, but it looks like level 6 is imminent.
Sometimes, security goes all the way to 11.
Re:Computers... Pfft... (Score:3, Funny)
I took tests on stone tablets. So, get off my lawn.
Stone tablets? STONE TABLETS???? LUXURY!!!!!
When I did my tests we didn't have stone tablets. Only the professor had them! We had to scratch our answers in the mud or dirt! And if it rained we had to repeat the whole year!
Re:Computers... Pfft... (Score:3, Funny)
Stone tablets? Writing! When I did my tests you had to sing the entire oral canon while accompanying yourself on a lute!
A lute? A LUTE??? LUXURY!!!!
Forget Norway (Score:0, Funny)
Re:Ironic (Score:2, Funny)
public static void main( String args[] ) {}
The rest was cake... but I didn't quite understand what all that mumbo jubo was...
my final year in college- one professor had us writing out all sorts of crazy algorithms- some as easy as searching a string, others more complicated assembly programs that took about 8 times reading to understand the problem.
I always felt SO smart coding without a compiler or assembler on those tests. It was really a great feeling. Until I'd get it back and realized I lost a point for forgetting a semi colon...