The SAT has a writing section - there is no reason you can't write code on a standardized test. The idea is to assign low points to people who write a long fun

The SAT has a writing section - there is no reason you can't write code on a standardized test. The idea is to assign low points to people who write a long function, and high points to people who write many small, self-documenting functions. Such an exam could also ask questions like "what is the cyclometric complexity of the following code?", which while not an indicator that the test taker will always write low-complexity code in a professional environment, at least indicates that the test taker is aware of maintainability metrics like cyclometric complexity - much more than can be said of programmers who mindlessly turn in 400 line functions with deeply nested conditionals.