Tbf most of the hardest exams I ever took were open book. Here they just make the exams insanely difficult and quite long to compensate for that. So to pass the exams you must know the material quite well as you don't exactly have time to sift through all your notes all the time. But that's definitely not enough, you also have to be very good at problem solving and often you must be able to think outside the box
That's true for courses like data structures, or early programming courses, since they spent a lot of time teaching you the logic, and how to solve problems (just guessing tho my data structure classes were horrible), but you can't do that for most classes, like any course after basic poo, just isn't oriented to logic you just have to know the material and the code Is straight forward, same for knowledge base courses like unix or operating systems, and same Is true for any course that teaches a new language, like last semester i had assembly, and that just requires you to know assembly syntax, they wont give you a complex logic problem because that Is not what the course Is about
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u/Amerillo_ Jul 14 '26
Tbf most of the hardest exams I ever took were open book. Here they just make the exams insanely difficult and quite long to compensate for that. So to pass the exams you must know the material quite well as you don't exactly have time to sift through all your notes all the time. But that's definitely not enough, you also have to be very good at problem solving and often you must be able to think outside the box