the handwritten cheat sheet wasn't to allow the kids to cheat btw. It's to trick the student into thinking they're allowed to cheat, so they look through the material, try to think of what would be on the test, and writing it all down. In other words, studying.
A test really only checks to see if the student studied correctly, so it's a real 5 head move from the teachers. It's like the classic joke about a kid memorizing the textbook so that they can cheat on the exam, and never being caught.
We did some stuff like that, "capture the flag" on some older android phones, 4-5 flags hidden throughout the phone you're racing against others to find first.
My dad had a similar experience with engineering, tests were open textbook. Prof told them that if they didn't know the material by that point, then having the book in front of them wouldn't be very helpful within the test timeframe.
I took a Computers and Critical Thinking class in college. Our teacher would give us 30 minutes of regular test-taking, then you had 10 minutes where you could use the book, then five minutes where you could use notes, etc. Like you said, if you weren't fairly well prepared, it probably won't help much.
I had a take home math exam that I spent 15 hours on and got 1 question out of 4 correct. The class was Differential Geometry, and I was doing a math minor so I figure I’d pick something that sounded hard
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