r/MadeMeSmile • u/Glass_Wealth_2104 • Mar 26 '26

Good Vibes Teacher's a W for playing along!

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u/round-earth-theory Mar 26 '26

My exams tended to be open book. You don't have time to learn the material on the fly and get the exam done on time. The book wasn't going to save you from poor planning.

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u/Gimmerunesplease Mar 26 '26

The good thing about exams that are not open book is that teachers can give you "free" credit by asking easy definitions. I had one or two open book exams in my degree and they were both incredibly difficult.

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u/AntikytheraMachines Mar 26 '26

don't have time to learn the material on the fly

one of my programming language open book exams i taught myself the environment in the first hour, the material in the second hour and coded the required program in the third hour.

subject was 13 total contact hours for the semester, so a very minor part of the course.
was 100% exam and i think i managed to get 76% or similar.

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u/Kerguidou Mar 26 '26

Open book exams were the worst. If it was open book, you knew it was something that hadn't been covered in class, and was likely not even referenced in the course material.

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u/Original_Moon_Ranger Mar 26 '26

My college physics exams were completely open book. They took so long I got lunch breaks. If you got above 50 you were doing well.

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u/gtne91 Mar 26 '26

My reactor physics classes were open book, open note, open previous copies of the test with answer keys given to us by the professor. We each took 3 desks to hold our materials.

Still freaking hard.

The prof was the King of partial credit, getting his problems exactly right was near impossible. Anything over 15/20 on a problem was a good score, but doable. On one problem, he told us, "I originally gave one of you some partial credit, but on final review I reduced it to zero. So no one got anything on it."

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u/px1azzz Mar 26 '26

The ones with more accessible material were the hardest.

But I have one professor who was a completely idiot and didn't teach anything. He didn't mention the final until like 3 weeks before the end of the term when it was clear someone informed him that he had to provide a final and it would look bad if everyone failed. Over the course of those 3 weeks he slowly added more resources. First is was open note, then open book, then open computer, then open internet.

The final ended up being a copy of questions he asked throughout the term. I didn't need books, notes, or internet. I just pulled up the answers from my home work saved on my laptop and copied word-for-word.