In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Thom Baguley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Glen wrote:
>> As a student I *always* preferred closed book exams. If I know the
>> material I don't need the book, and if I don't know the material,
>> the book isn't going to help in the exam enough anyway. For open
>Yes. Also, closed book exams tend to be easier because the range of
>questions is more restricted. I have found them a way to avoid
>students spending most of their time memorizing near-useless material.
On the contrary, closed book exams emphasize memorizing
near-useless material. A good one-hour exam would have
three, or at most four, multi-part PROBLEMS.
A good exam would be one which someone who has merely
memorized the book would fail, and one who understands
the concepts but has forgotten all the formulas would
do extremely well on.
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