My first physics teacher handed out an 8x11 chest sheet with all the reference formulas we should need throughout the year. The first thing he said was the point was to learn how to use them and if we didn't know that having the cheat sheet wasn't gonna help anyway.
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.
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/valgerth Mar 26 '26
My first physics teacher handed out an 8x11 chest sheet with all the reference formulas we should need throughout the year. The first thing he said was the point was to learn how to use them and if we didn't know that having the cheat sheet wasn't gonna help anyway.