To Prevent AI Cheating, Blue Books Are Making A Comeback In US. Here's All We Know

To Prevent AI Cheating, Blue Books Are Making A Comeback In US. Here's All We Know

Blue books are plain, stapled exam booklets with unlined or lightly lined pages and easily recognisable blue covers.

AI Cheating is So Out of Hand In America's Schools That the Blue Books Are Coming Back

Pen and paper is back, baby.

Blue Book Sales Surge As Universities Combat AI Cheating

Sales of blue book exam booklets have surged dramatically across the nation as professors turn to analog solutions to prevent ChatGPT cheating. The University of California, Berkeley reported an 80% increase in blue book sales over the past two academic years, while Texas A&M saw 30% growth and the University of Florida recorded nearly 50% increases this school year. The surge comes as students who were freshmen when ChatGPT launched in 2022 app…

Exam conditions to change for languages students mid-course, AI blamed

Oxford University’s Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages (MML) is set to re-introduce closed-book, handwritten exams for almost all papers, to be sat in Exam Schools, due to concerns surrounding plagiarism and the use of AI.  Cherwell can reveal that these changes will take effect almost immediately: students currently in their third and second years of study will now be taking handwritten and closed-book finals, as opposed to the online exa…