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In my experience (another school, another country), it was usually allowed to take a take-home exam together with others. The understanding was that the exams a
by Confusion 16y ago
In my experience (another school, another country), it was usually allowed to take a take-home exam together with others. The understanding was that the exams are sufficiently hard, that students smart enough to pass do not allow others to freeload and that working together with other smart students teaches important skills in addition to a better understanding of the subject.
The same goes for homework problem sets: me and two others would usually first solve them ourselves to the best of our ability and then compare answers, which was always an educational experience; the more so when no one had successfully solved the problem on their own or when it took someone a while to convince the other two their (identical) solutions were wrong.
- ianferrel 16y ago> The understanding was that the exams are sufficiently hard, that students smart enough to pass do not allow others to freeload... That sounds like a flawed assumption to me. There are lots of social and economic incentives that might lead someone smart to do others' work. I tend to agree that working with others on problem sets can be quite beneficial. Many classes I took had the same policy on those. But at some point you have to prove you can do it yourself.