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?

>>24
OP here. I prefer to think of it as efficient, not lazy. It turns out I got 100/100 on that test, and in my Java class last semester I got close enough to perfect scores the whole time too. I'm just saying archaic pencils and barbaric erasers are relics of an age long past.

All you'd have to do is install some program in the computer lab that lets the TA watch your screen, that would be even better at preventing cheating than administering tests on paper. Either way as long as net access is cut off the only resources someone would have is on paper, which is easy to catch.