Diploma Mills

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I'm sorry but I really can't agree with you, I never saw a course in any CC or uni that was completely open book, or had just the last exam closed, but granted I don't have much experience with the US system.

You are saying that open book tests are designed harder, I think you are making an assumption based on your experience. Several people here described a technic of searching the answer as you take a quiz with SL without having to read the book. To be harder, I think open book tests would, at least, need an essay portion.

To be fair, SL moved to a 70% (quiz) / 30% (final) grading. But under the old system (80/20, 75/25), it was totally possible to pass without reading it.

I've had several courses at B&M schools with open-book exams - up to and including the final.  And those exams were HARD if you hadn't read the book.  A LOT of questions, and a lot of them were worded so that if you didn't know where to look for them, you weren't going to find the answers easily.  A 3-hour exam with 100 difficult questions is not easy if you haven't read the book, period.  You can tell who read the book, because we were the people who would read the question, and then either quickly answer it because we knew it, or knew exactly where to turn in the book to verify what we thought was the correct answer.  We were also the ones who finished 90 minutes in, while the rest of the class was frantically scrambling through pages trying to find answers because they didn't have a clue.

If you've never taken a SL exam, then you don't know how it works.  I took some of those tests, and they were not easy.  You had to spend a LOT of time reading through to be able to answer some of the questions.  So basically, you end up reading plenty just by taking the exams.

I did a Study.com course with the quiz on the right and the course on the left, and had to read the entire lesson (most times) just to be able to answer the questions, almost every time.  Again, it sounds like this open-book or open-tab would be a piece of cake, but it just isn't.