07-30-2010, 04:34 PM
I studied Engineering in college. In my experience, we were sometimes allowed to have a sheet of notes. The logic is that if the test is written correctly having your book available won't help you unless you understand how to use the formulas, which is the most important part. I actually wrote programs on my TI-85 to perform most of the calculations for me so that I could just punch in the variables. That still required that I knew how the formulas worked, and which variables to use, it just saved time and prevented stupid mistakes.