What to do for open book test (1 Viewer)

[xyyvii]

I don’t know if this is the appropriate thread to be posting this but here I go

I have an open book exam for my tuition tomorrow and I am confused on how to prepare for it? Do I copy every key information in there including the non-important information as it might be tested? I have a bad habit of copying word for word

Any advice will be appreciated asap

 

[gammahydroxybutyrate]

I don’t know if this is the appropriate thread to be posting this but here I go

I have an open book exam for my tuition tomorrow and I am confused on how to prepare for it? Do I copy every key information in there including the non-important information as it might be tested? I have a bad habit of copying word for word

Any advice will be appreciated asap

you make your notes and resources in a way that will actually help you in an exam. this will depend on how you best process information; generally it is the process of making the notes that is most beneficial. open book exams are usually focused in application rather than the correctness of the content; otherwise they're not really testing anything at all when you can just regurgitate your notes. if you aren't going to learn the content then you put enough in your notes to form a passable answer.

if it helps to have an example, for law school exams i bring copies of the legislation in, so i can double check the exact wording even if i have a general idea of what each section contains. i bring summaries of the cases so i can check that im citing the right authority because im not going to remember the exact names and dates of 150+ cases even if i know all the principles. if im bothered ill bring a scaffold of each issue and a checklist of each element for answering problem questions.

 

[xyyvii]

you make your notes and resources in a way that will actually help you in an exam. this will depend on how you best process information; generally it is the process of making the notes that is most beneficial. open book exams are usually focused in application rather than the correctness of the content; otherwise they're not really testing anything at all when you can just regurgitate your notes. if you aren't going to learn the content then you put enough in your notes to form a passable answer.

if it helps to have an example, for law school exams i bring copies of the legislation in, so i can double check the exact wording even if i have a general idea of what each section contains. i bring summaries of the cases so i can check that im citing the right authority because im not going to remember the exact names and dates of 150+ cases even if i know all the principles. if im bothered ill bring a scaffold of each issue and a checklist of each element for answering problem questions.

Would it be considered cheating if I wrote down everything from my notes?

 

[jonolad69]

Would it be considered cheating if I wrote down everything from my notes?

no lol