My 2nd year physics professor always put one open problem on the exam worth 15% of the exam mark (like, "work out the total energy output of the Sun based on its mass." It was always new and you could in principle solve it using the stuff you'd learned over the semester, but it didn't resemble any example problems. You had to understand the actual subject to decide which equations to use and how to apply them.
It was amazing watching the rage of the straight HD students.
My 2nd year physics professor always put one open problem on the exam worth 15% of the exam mark (like, "work out the total energy output of the Sun based on its mass." It was always new and you could in principle solve it using the stuff you'd learned over the semester, but it didn't resemble any example problems. You had to understand the actual subject to decide which equations to use and how to apply them.
It was amazing watching the rage of the straight HD students.
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