Things did not work that way. Candidates were given copies of the questions together with the answers and took them with them during the examination, with the full knowledge of the examinators, who just did as if they had seen nothing...
Some of the candidates used them, some didn't had to, others used the copy to cross-check the answers they had given. This practice went on for more than ten years and stopped in 2000.
Call it the way you like. To me, it's cheating, nothing else.