Peanuts by Charles Schulz for November 13, 1973
November 12, 1973
November 14, 1973
Transcript:
Peppermint Patty sits at her desk in school and says, "This test is too hard . . ."<BR><BR> Peppermint Patty raises her hand and says, "You know what we need, ma'am?"<BR><BR> Peppermint Patty continues, "What we need is a good old-fashioned open-book test . . . I'm good at those . . ."<BR><BR> Peppermint Patty shouts, "You tell me what book to open, and I'll open it!!!"<BR><BR>
I had a fully open book test once, on classical electromagnetism. You could open any book you wanted, use any calculator of any kind. Only thing not allowed was to talk to anyone or to copy other peoples’ answers of course (if cellular communication was a thing then, it would likely also been banned). If you knew the principles of the subject matter but didn’t remember the exact formulae you needed to apply the book would help, because then you would know what to look for. If you didn’t study though, having the book wouldn’t help you unless you could study it then and there and get it anyhow (in which case, mission accomplished as far as our professor was concerned!).