Last-minute revision notes? Check. Spare ink cartridges? Check. Lucky mascot? Check. 250mg of amphetamines? Check.
It's not as an unlikely scenario as it might seem. Paul Cooper, education professor from the University of Leicester, is saying that as more people are getting used to being prescribed drugs such as Prozac or Ritalin - or speed - to modify their behaviour, pills to pep up grades could become increasingly common.
But what's the difference between taking medicine to boost your grey cells, and eliciting help from the natural world for the same reason?
New marketing appears practically every week about the new 'super food': one day its oily fish, the next it's some kind of bizarre scarlet raisin thing. Even caffeine - as any teacher will tell you - is a performance-enhancing drug.
And if somebody starts manufacturing brain tablets that use natural broccoli extract, why is doling those out any different from trying to force-feed green veg to teenagers already sulky with revision schedules?
Parents, after all, want to do whatever they can to help their children succeed. And students need little encouragement for pharmaceutical experimentation - even better if it's the kind that can actually help, not hinder, their grades.
Yet nobody can deny that a medicinal advantage might be cheating, and there has to be some way of levelling the pill tray. Maybe in the future we'll hear exam moderators call: "Time up - put your pens down please - and everybody extend your right arm so the nurse can take a blood sample."
What do you think?
