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Norway Trying Out Laptops For High School Exams

Posted by timothy on from the high-school-unmusical dept.

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.

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  1. Attention Wikipedia is run by pedophiles by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Ask this admin why he fucks little boys up the ass

  2. First by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Post!

  3. Only in Kenya by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Forget about Norway.

  4. vikings by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    hopefully vikings don't don't invade during testing.

  5. Computers... Pfft... by kd5zex · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Quit complaining you little shit, I took tests on a scantron.

    1. Re:Computers... Pfft... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      I took tests on stone tablets. So, get off my lawn.