<p>I just find this interesting, I was talking with a friend at Cornell and he told me that on his calc3 final the professor let them use a cheat sheet (write anything on a blank piece of paper). I have also heard that several classes at Wellesley give take-home finals. Are there other schools that follow these type of policies?</p>
<p>Sure. Particularly colleges with honor codes use take home exams or allow students to individually schedule their final exams.</p>
<p>Most of my daughter’s exams at Williams have been take-home. She usually chooses to take them in the study carrells in the library, though.</p>
<p>D is at Haverford. Friday night she was studying for her organic chem exam scheduled for Sunday. When there is a “take home,” she makes sure NO one calls while taking the exam.</p>
<p>Many of my classes at MIT allow cheat sheets. One class allows 24 pages front and back for the final (which does not, by the way, mean it’s an easy test! :))</p>
<p>EDIT: And many of my tests are also open-book</p>
<p>Just so everyone knows, take home exams and exams where profs allow “cheat sheets” tend to be more difficult than other types of exams. The schools allowing such things tend to have essay exams in which the student has to put lots of thought into the answers, not simply spit out something memorized from the book. They have to understand their subject and apply what they’ve learned to different situations. This means that the answers aren’t going to be in the book or on their cheat sheets. The book may have info that the student could use in creating their answer, but if the student simply copies what the book says, at most, that would probably lead to a C- grade.</p>
<p>Agree with NSM. Allowing notes and books for these exams is akin to allowing the use of a calculator in calculus. No way you can use these tools effectively if you haven’t mastered the material already.</p>