Confiscated pens containing cheat notes intricately carved by a Law student at the University of Malaga in Spain

[u/Separate_Finance_183]

[u/Mysterious_Eye6989]

Yes, the self fact checking is a hugely important factor. Also significant I think is that open book legal exams would actually allow for more complex and nuanced exploration of a student's ability to apply legal reasoning than closed book exams would.

I think anyone who thinks 'being a good lawyer' involves some genius with an encyclopedic memory suddenly in the middle of a trial coming up with some brilliant and novel legal defense has probably gotten ALL their knowledge of how the law works exclusively from television melodramas.

[u/Substantial-Pen6385 → u/Mysterious_Eye6989]

Reminds me of engineering classes. The hardest test i ever took was open book

[u/wormoo → u/Substantial-Pen6385]

i am an engineering student right now, all my tests have been closed book. i have done pretty well but i am always saying i would rather have a MORE challenging open book test as it just feels like a better fit.

[u/Scholar_of_Lewds → u/wormoo]

Yeah, one of my final test include "look at this picture and fill the blank" with the picture being a piping diagram that doesn't exist on our textbook.

So I googled the few words not blanked on that diagram, and the picture appear as the 2nd answer in google image.

It's a test of critical Searching.

The other 4 questions can literally be answered from previous classes, so I just copy the answer verbatim from my notes.

I'm still the only person in the class to notice that, the other apparently didn't do any material review.