• BenVimes@lemmy.ca
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    3 days ago

    Yeah I don’t get it either. My degree is in chemical engineering, and I always had a periodic table available for every test going to back to grade 11 chemistry.

    In high school, my teacher gave us a printed copy on the first day of class and said, “This is your best friend.” We could bring that page into any test. He also allowed some handwritten notes and alterations to the page, notably a list of polyatomic ions, and colour coding of certain elements. But if you forgot your personal copy, he’d give you a blank one before the test.

    In university, I wasn’t allowed to bring a loose sheet with the table on it, but one was stapled to the back of every test and exam if it was required (you don’t really need chemical properties to do fluid mechanics and heat transfer). Also, most tests were open book, and most of my textbooks had a periodic table printed on the inside cover anyhow.

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      21 hours ago

      My orgo professor let us use notes for the quizzes but not exams. We were allowed to use a molecular kit (sticks and balls) on exams.

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        20 hours ago

        Orgo was the one core course where we couldn’t bring any supplementary material to the tests - no textbook, no handwritten notes, no molecular kits. But they still stapled a periodic table to the back of the test.