Taking paper with info into an exam.

In my first year at uni, I've had 1 open book exam, however it was for spectroscopy, so the only thing worth taking was the data tables, that would be damn near on impossible to memorise enough to take the exam. So I guess while it's still open book, it's not quite the same.

Other than that, I'm against open book exams, while they're more like real life (you can most likely find the information if you can't remember it etc), they're just too easy, especially on some of the already easy courses.
 
Efour2 said:
I never had an open book exam. I find the prospect of it very dumbed down. You could teach a monkey to be able to pass that given all the information infront of you.

Though i guess this is the modern era where information management is part of the game??

The only "cheat sheet" i had was a tiny rubber with a ton of microscopically drawn equations on it in a 0.1mm mapping pen :O

We had access to past papers, which gave us an idea of what we could expect then i focused the bulk of my reading and revision around the most likely questions to come up.

It was a total buzz when 3 of the 4 came up that you had utterly hammered the weeks before ( when i mean week i mean 12h and no sleep at all but am tying to look professional)
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Open book exam papers are completely different to closed book exams. There's more to them than just flicking to the correct page and then copying out the answer...

And tbh, if you can pass an exam by cramming alone for the past 12 hour then the exam must be pretty much 'dumbed down' too.
 
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