--- title: Giving University Exams in the Age of Chatbots | daily.dev description: A university professor shares their experimental approach to exams that allows students to choose whether to use LLMs. Of 60 students, 57 opted not to use... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/giving-university-exams-in-the-age-of-chatbots-lih8hlrgt twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Giving University Exams in the Age of Chatbots | daily.dev og:description: A university professor shares their experimental approach to exams that allows students to choose whether to use LLMs. Of 60 students, 57 opted not to use... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/giving-university-exams-in-the-age-of-chatbots-lih8hlrgt og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/LiH8HLrgt.png og:image:alt: Giving University Exams in the Age of Chatbots og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Giving University Exams in the Age of Chatbots **[Hacker News](https://daily.dev/sources/hn)** · 15 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A university professor shares their experimental approach to exams that allows students to choose whether to use LLMs. Of 60 students, 57 opted not to use chatbots, citing personal preference, distrust, or fear of accountability. The three who chose to use them showed mixed results, with one becoming lost in LLM-generated walls of text. Students who avoided chatbots generally performed better academically. The professor also introduced a "stream of consciousness" writing exercise that revealed student thought processes and helped identify those who understood material but struggled to articulate it under stress. The experience highlights generational differences in attitudes toward cheating, collaboration, and technology adoption in education. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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