Is an exam just a game played between students and professors, a game in which students try to guess what will be on the exam and professors try to outwit their students? If so, what is the optimal study strategy for students, and likewise, what is the optimal exam design for professors: open or closed book? Here is one of my favorite posts from one of my favorite blogs, cheaptalk.org … Enjoy, and tell me what you think.
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Open book exams always seem so much more challenging.
I felt this way too when I was a student, but I wonder why? Does the student study less (both in total and on the margin) than he or she would if the exam were closed book? Does the professor have a greater license to ask more obscure questions when the format of the exam is open book? Both reasons?
Enrique, I’m not sure about the professor asking harder questions, but I do think the student studies less and because of this has to be looking up the answers, which takes up a lot of time during the exam.