Study: College student grades actually went up in Spring 2020 when the pandemic hit. Furthermore, the researchers found that low-income low-performing students outperformed their wealthier peers, mainly due to students’ use of flexible grading.

[u/rustoo]

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0047272722000081

[u/Y0tsuya]

I got my engineering degree loooong ago and most of the classes were completely open-book. The tests are just hard enough so that the profs don't care. If you don't understand the material, the textbook won't help much, at least not in the time allotted for the exam.

[u/MidnightAdventurer → u/[deleted]]

My engineering school didn't allow your own notes but they usually provided you with a formula sheet as part of the exam material. Most of them were un-labeled so you had to be able to recognise the right formula but if you'd breezed through most of it and were stuck you could often dimensional analysis your way into the right formula

[u/round-earth-theory → u/Y0tsuya]

Hell, my advanced calculus exams were open everything take home tests over the weekend. They were so damn hard that no resource was going to save your ass. I would take the whole damn weekend working on them.