answer:I think open book tests have their place, i am not against them, but some things I would argue the children need to know without looking it up. Knowing how to research something in itself is a great skill, but for sure we can not rely on a students opinion of them thinking they will never use the information in the future. Kids say that all the time and wind up being wrong. I cheated once off of someone else’s paper for a test. A farely insiginificant 20 question test. Never did it again, I don’t understand how people cheat feeling just fine about it, I never felt fine about it, I regretted doing it. I think testing is important. It measures what we have learned. Memorizing is not all bad. Having a strong memory is part of intelligence. We store nformation in our brain and build on that information, cross reference it. When I strike up a conversation with someone the very smart successgul people have incredible amounts of information memorized. You can’t be in a profession and not have some information memorized. I don’t believe in purposely trying to make a test tricky. I don’t think most teachers try to do that.