A89: Re: Cheating, etc.


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A89: Re: Cheating, etc.




look, I know all about cheating and not cheating.  There's such a thing as
"using your resources creatively" and there's such a thing as "breaking the
rules."  I'm sure your smart enough to know the distinction.  I've done both
and I sure know the consequences


-----Original Message-----
From: Chris Roddy <tapeworm7337@yahoo.com>
To: assembly-89@lists.ticalc.org <assembly-89@lists.ticalc.org>
Date: Thursday, September 17, 1998 5:41 PM
Subject: A89: Cheating, etc.


>
>The AP tests test your intelligence? No, they test your applied
>knowledge.
>
>Envision this: you're working in the control room at NASA, running
>some Mars shuttle trajectories, and your superior walks up behind you
>and taps you on the shoulder:
>
>"You're using a TI-2089?! That's cheating!"
>
>And he fires you. The Mars lander crashes. (that crashing bit's not
>important for the moral)
>
>Technology will most likely never be unavailable. To become proficient
>with it is not a detriment. To become dependent on it is...
>
>...but then again, I can work an abacus and a slide rule and do math
>by hand. It's just always nice to be able to reliably check your work.
>
>>isn't the point of these tests to test your intelligence?  Why not
>>just do
>>what everyone else does and study, rather than try and cheat.  It's a
>>lot
>>eaiser that way.
>
>
>>
>>>I know the 89 is legal on AP tests, does anyone know if it is legal
>>on
>>>International Baccalaureate (IB) exams?  I will the screen was the
>>same
>>size
>>>and at the same angle as the 86, then I could switch the external
>>cases on
>>>the two but I would still have to memorize what the keys were.
>>
>>
>
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