[ceeplusplus]

Well, typically open book tests are designed with that ability to search in mind, so the problems are much harder and designed to test understanding rather than memorization. They often are also much longer, so you cannot just search for everything and still get a full score.

[ignormies]

Agreed. The value is in being able to know _what_ to search in conjunction with knowing _how_ to compose the amalgamated resources together to derive a solution to the question at hand -- all in a timely manner.

Simply knowing a generic fact (e.g. "the Civil War began in 1861" or "the atomic mass of Oxygen is 15.999u") is not sufficient. One needs to know how to use that information.