Talk:Blue book exam

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Why is the book usually blue? What is the history of the concept and of the book itself? How did it become established as a norm in colleges and universities? 74.85.68.229 (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 19:44, 21 October 2009 (UTC).

Same questions here. I came here looking for some information on *why* these are superior to just turning in pages from ones' own notebook, or something: doesn't this waste a huge amount of resources per test administered, unless the tests nearly, on average, fill an entire book each time? o_O ELLIOTTCABLE (talk) 14:39, 19 September 2016 (UTC)

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My familiarity with blue books is from their widespread use in mathematics courses. I've never known them to be especially for particular kinds of tests, although they seem to be less frequently used in big assembly-line courses for students who are only there to get math requirements out of the way. In honest courses as opposed to those, they're commonplace. But that's not the impression I would get from this article. Where did that information come from? Michael Hardy (talk) 12:51, 16 April 2013 (UTC)

My familiarity is also from math courses. Nolanamy (talk) 19:14, 9 October 2013 (UTC)

I suspect this varies according to institution, time, individual professor, etc. I don't recall ever using a blue book in math, but did have them in other courses. Wschart (talk) 18:49, 9 February 2015 (UTC)

You guys say that you used ruled, that is, lined notebook for math courses instead of using graph notebooks? Seems weird to me. Mikus (talk) 06:13, 28 March 2017 (UTC)

Well, as I recall (it’s been 50 years), in many cases the professor would provide a sheet or sheets of paper with the test questions and appropriate space to answer and as needed, work out the problem. This being the 60s, these were more than likely either Dittomaster or mimeograph. If the prof did multiple choice tests, you might get one of those grid sheets used for machine grading, although most of the time these were hand graded with the aid of a template. I even heard stories of MQ tests being grades by stacking the answer sheets and driving a nail through the correct choices; then looking at each sheet to see if the answer given was so pierced. It again, all this is usually left up to the individual prof, influenced perhaps by the prevailing institutional culture. Wschart (talk) 15:54, 28 July 2018 (UTC)

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