Some exams at my university do allow you to bring all the notes and books you wish (no internet though).
Although that sounds like a great deal, I don't really like those exams.
Normally if professors let you bring all your notes, they increase the complexity of the tasks and maybe even cut the time. So unless you wrote yourself a good summary or index to your notes, you will spent too much time looking through your stuff and won't be able to complete the test.
If you however wrote a good summary, chances are that you wont actually need it, since thats pretty much the best way to learn. But still the exam is harder than it would have been without books, so you are off worse.
> thats pretty much the best way to learn. But still the exam is harder than it would have been without books, so you are off worse.
So... they're the best way to learn, but you're worse off for getting them? Think about this argument a little more critically---I think what you're trying to say is that such exams are harder (which is true), but what is the purpose of the exam, and of the course itself? Surely an exam structure that is more effective at causing you to learn the material is better for you, not worse, not despite but because of the fact that it makes you synthesise a better understanding of the material.
Normally if professors let you bring all your notes, they increase the complexity of the tasks and maybe even cut the time. So unless you wrote yourself a good summary or index to your notes, you will spent too much time looking through your stuff and won't be able to complete the test.
If you however wrote a good summary, chances are that you wont actually need it, since thats pretty much the best way to learn. But still the exam is harder than it would have been without books, so you are off worse.