Students’ calcs in the 70s/80s

[Johnh]

40 years later, I'm a part-time university engineering lecturer. The students also have to get their calcs approved and list them on the papers. Nearly all of them have Casio Fx 82 or 100. No programmables, and they don't use them anyway.

But seriously in the recent end of semester exams, it was for many students even in their final year, their first on-campus exam , on paper, in a room, since covid! No phones (or "phone a friend'), no laptops or tablets. Much different to the remote online tests they've had these last few years. There was much crashing and burning.....