• BenVimes@lemmy.ca
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    10 hours 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.