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Law exams are open book; Engineering exams are not.

I'm not sure exactly what the distinction is - apart from law being "soft" and requiring argument - but it's deeper than inability to reuse past papers.




Lots of engineering exams are open book. The only closed book ones are the freshman & some sophomore weeder classes.


I'm glad they were actually, it allowed us to focus on learning the material instead of copying all the formulas from the textbook onto a notes sheet.


Thanks - looks like this has already changed in line with GGP since my time. https://peer.asee.org/open-book-problem-solving-in-engineeri... [pdf]




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