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by darkwizard42 1291 days ago
Agreed, but there are some levels of study where open-book just doesn't work well.

I think it would be hard to ask any kind of pre-college mathematics questions that don't become incredibly easy with an open book. The other challenge with open-book exams which focus on deeper understanding and reasoning is they still require understanding fundamentals to be successful, so how do you test for fundamentals?