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Hm. If exam is not measuring competence adequately, the exams validity is lacking, ergo, exam should be redesigned for better validity. Open-book exams with good validity exist, as do tests allowing scientific calculators and formula sheets. Admittedly, that is harder, but... what is "cheating" in the age of information anyway?

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Cheating is posting the question to Chegg and then copying the answer someone posts into your exam. For example.

To be tongue-in-cheek - that person will make a great dev, because I copy answers from stackoverflow all the time and get paid 6 figures to do it.

The old technique of letting your neighbor copy your answers is both more effective (they don't need to be your neighbor) and harder to monitor (just use your phone to post answers somewhere). The other old technique of sending your older sibling to take the test for you is also difficult to monitor digitally.

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