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If your professor announces that your next exam will be open-book (meaning, unlike in normal circumstances, you will be allowed to open your books / notes / math formulas / etc. while you take the exam), do you look at it as an extra challenge?

 

(Because if your professor were sadistic enough, open-book exams mean the same as saying "I'll give you an exam so hard that you won't get a passing grade... even if you've got your books open." <_< )

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Should be a challenge. Open-book exams simulate the situations professionals face every day, when they use resources to solve problems but they tend to be useless in introductory subjects in which facts / skills must be learned or thoroughly mastered if students are expected to progress to complicated concepts in advanced subjects. Students who are lacking basic knowledge may waste too much of their time consulting their references rather than writing/answering. They seem to reduce stress though. :)

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In my quantum physics(FINALS), open everything as long as you can write it on paper, you can bring it on the examination room. Anyway, I had written the whole ppt but it was useless. The exam was so difficult.

 

The same goes with my Electrical Engineering subjects. The examples in the book is way too easy compared to what is given in the long exams. Magtataka ka nalang sa results kasi wala manlang naka singkwenta porsyento sa klase niyo.

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Pag ang exam open book or minsan take-home, nagdadasal na ako ng matindi, tinatawag lahat ng saints in heaven.

 

Minsan ay kinailangang magdikit-dikit ng 10 sheets of long bond paper para makagawa ng accurate graph at gumawa ng tie line, operating line, etc. s@%t that was hell.

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