<p>Hazel, please read my posts. I have said that if a professor indeed provides specific instructions to not use old tests, fine. As I have also previously written, no professor I ever had gave such instructions. The closest any professor ever came to doing this would be to tell us not to discuss a current test before it was given to a later section of a class, usually later on that same day or maybe on the following day. To my knowledge, my classmates adhered to that. But what we are discussing is just not the same thing. Again, your position on this seems to be based on the premise that an old test by definition is just an older copy of a new, or current test. In general you cannot say that ,i.e., your premise is wrong. If however in a specific case it turns out to be true, then the professor himself is negligent, because once he hands back graded papers he has no realistic expectation of being able to control their future use-those papers belong to the students. For everyone’s sake the professor needs to bear this in mind when he writes new tests.
It woud be interesting to hear an Honor Court (or even a Law School student) opinion on this.</p>