Programming tests on pencil & paper?

How hard is it to cut off access to the Internet in a computer lab and give programming tests with a text editor and compiler? Do most universities administer tests on programming on paper, or does my school (a state university) just suck? I would have been done with that test today way faster if I had access to cutting and copying and shit, not to mention who writes a program and doesn't even compile it?

OP just sounds like a lazy ass. I took written tests and quizzes for a java course and I had an almost perfect score for the class. Writing  code on paper is just like taking any other writing or short answer test. If you can not write it down you do not know it. Besides, having the test on paper makes it harder to cheat which is fairer for everyone in the class. A test on a computer would have to be administered in a computer lab where it is harder to monitor all the students.