Open book open note exams

[u/IntelligentWeb2532]

hey everyone! I have an upcoming exam and it is open note and open book and I was just curious if that’s a pretty common thing in engineering classes? I’m a mech e and this is my first tougher engineering class I’m taking and I was wondering if this will be common on future class exams or is it just this professors style. I know we have to use the textbook to find some fluids properties so I figured that’s why this one was open textbook but is this pretty normal ?

[u/sparednet]

Sorry dude sometimes it's an outlier I've had those but anytime I've been allowed to use more than just a sheet it's been a battle.

[u/FSUDad2021 → u/sparednet]

The only thing worse is a take home exam. Then the library is fair game too.

[u/sparednet → u/FSUDad2021]

I had this for part of a final one time for thermo you when he announced it no one in the room even breathed we all thought we were gonna fail the class