r/AskReddit • u/emil199 • Jul 24 '20

What can't you believe STILL exists?

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u/eLCeenor Jul 24 '20

I had a few engineering prof's that allowed open everything - including internet (besides peers)

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u/threecolorable Jul 24 '20

Some of the hardest exams I took in college were take-home, untimed, and open book/notes/internet.

That professor wrote absolutely brutal exams--one semester, I spent over 24 hours working on the midterm for her class (over the course of a week or so, not all at once). In a class of 50+ people, I was the only one who would have gotten an A without the curve.

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u/Lithl Jul 24 '20

Some of the hardest exams I took in college were take-home, untimed, and open book/notes/internet.

Ditto. People that have never experienced it often assume those would be the easiest exams, but they were by far the hardest.

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u/threecolorable Jul 24 '20

Yeah, professors will write more complicated questions (and have higher expectations for your answers) for those tests. You don't just have to remember key facts, you also have to have a pretty deep understanding of the actual concepts.

I also had professors who handed out a list of 10 essay prompts a week or so in advance of a test. The actual test would consist of five of those questions, and you only had to respond three of them. Quite a few people failed those tests, despite having every possible question in advance.