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?

at MY university, it is the standard. Then again there aren't many computers to do the test.
>but actually compiling the programs would defeat the purpose of the tests.
I don't think so. There aren't that many advantages. Take in mind you won't fail if you have one or two little mistakes.
Unless you mean that it prevents people from writing working programs via try and fail rute until it works. Well... If you write programs that way:
a. your code is gonna suck, unless you rewrite lotsa stuff which is ok, but
b. it takes longer if you stop every second to compile.