> > Actually, it's open-note. But we had a few open-books, too, which I thought was incredibly stupid.
>
> Open-book tests (properly written ones, anyway) work on the principle of "It's not what you've got, it's what you do with it".
> To do well, you've got to be able to understand the question, work out what to look up in the book, and figure out how to apply that to answering the question.
>
> Paul

I completely agree. I've had teachers that did that-- but not in the math class. It was mostly straight-from-the-book stuff, the point of which was to see if you memorized some algoritim [sp] or theorem or something easily found in the book.

Chr"now, you should hear me talk about Biology.. or rather my Biology teacher... on the other hand, you probably shouldn't"is