Custom made calculator for cheating in exams - possible?

Once you got out of school, you would probably pay much more than that in blackmail payments to keep your practice. ;)

Please note I am joking and I would never do anything illegal.

But please let me know if you can hypothetically do it

If you think education is dangerous then try ignorance

martin

How much is "loads of money" ??

donald

It's been done -- see "PDA".

Why bother with school, waste your time building a undetectable BlackJack /card counting cheating device for use in the casinos.

It's not that there is too much too learn; it's that you are too small for the job. Maybe you should downgrade your ambitions to bed pan changer.

Cell phone??? PDA???

Maybe you picked the wrong school...

Tim

-- Deep Fryer: a very philosophical monk. Website:

Then this type of field, ahem medical, is possibly the wrong choice. Technology fields are much better in this respect. For my electronics degree I didn't have to learn, it was more like being reminded. Of course the concepts were to be grasped at quite a speed.

Rene

The original cheater was the HP48xx. It was great, but above most students comprehension .

Cheers

Why bother with that at all. If you really want to throw the morals to the wind why not just buy a fake degree. We had a nice Korean couple here in NZ making fake degrees and diplomas.

How about one of their nice "Diploma of Wellness"?

On the other hand why not ask one your many other class mates how they are passing by cheating since their is WAY to much to learn and remember. There is a moral and a point in here somewhere.......

:)

A Sharp calculator 1401, 1402, 1350, basic computer, looks like a calculator but can store programs and text too. If they check your tools very carefully, change the static RAM memory in it to a bigger one, and access it through a few assembler commands.

That's what we want when we come to the hospital, a doctor who cheated to become a doctor.

You can save a few years by not going to med school at all. Just walk into a hospital and apply for a job, they don't check your credentials if you are convincing enough and they need doctors. People have done that and worked as doctors for years before getting caught. Or just sneak into a big hospital and steal a white coat and a stethoscope, find an empty room and start working.

Or quit school, start a private clinic, print business cards, put a faked diploma on the wall, buy a white coat and a stethoscope and get patients.

Spread these ideas, which all have been used successfully many times, so the authorities begin to check up on doctors before they are allowed to start working.

If I had no morals,

and loads of money

Could I get someone to custom make/modify a calculator to store lots of data.. and I could use it to cheat in exams

I'm in my second year at Med school and there's way too much to learn!

I would pay £1,000 for someone to do this if they could to it perfectly

Could you hire and pay an MD/programmer to do it for you? Or, could you learn how to use and successfully program a handheld digital instrument such as a PDA? If so, you have no need for the MD degree.

I taught engineering and always told my students that they could bring anything with them for exams, other than an expert. Books, notes, calculators, whatever. A good exam, plus proctoring, will weed out the chaff.

Of course this is possible, if electronic device are allowed into exam rooms (but are they?). Even a relatively simple electronic calculator could be modified into a serious data delivery device. But I'd say the starting price level would be well over $1M, and probably an truly effective programmed machine would run at least $100M. The $100M price takes into account getting skilled doctors to go along with your scheme, and take the time to disgorge their knowledge, along with a team skillful enough to present it.

Hmm, A31,000 is a curious number, what's the story there?

He used the symbol for pounds sterling, which apparently came out as A3 on your newsreader, Win.

Hello Everyone,

This must be a spoof question:

Way back in the mid eighties programmable calculators were beginning to pop up and those that could master the programming language and utilize the minimal storage available could blow away the competition. It required more work and knowledge to put the formulas and text into the device than it did to just memorize it. Come exam time, those that could do it stood up first and walked away finishing to the gasp of the other students testing.

What type of person would think teachers 20 years later are not aware of this new era of information storage, this is the real question?

A Casio fx-7000, it was a modern day marvel, back then.

I didn't do it. (-;

• * * Christopher

Temecula CA.USA

No quite. The orinal was the HP28S :-)

Regards Bernt

If I had no morals,

and loads of money

Could I get someone to custom make/modify a calculator to store lots of data.. and I could use it to cheat in exams

I'm in my second year at Med school and there's way too much to learn!

I would pay £1,000 for someone to do this if they could to it perfectly

Why bother?? Presumably you want money.

get the white coat, a couple framed of internet degrees and start selling some unregulated herbal drug for the alternative health market with some crock-o-s**te story. It might work.

Magnets! The (UK) National Health Service is actually paying for this crap.

Paul Burke