Open book or do you guys have to memorize poems for Literature final exams?
Hi,
I'm currently following an English major and as a second year undergrad this semester we have 10 poems each from Larkin, Yeats and Frost, as well as Eliot's The Wasteland. added to this we have 3 classic dramas and 3 novels too.
For final exams (old fashioned in-person written exams, not online), we are not given the poems or texts. I recently found out that many unis provide fresh copies of the texts to lit students for exams, which makes total sense to me as we can't be expected to memorize that many texts, or even extracts from that many texts to write essay type analysis answers, which is what we get at these exams.
What are your thoughts? How do your unis approach these kind of exams? Do you guys even have exams or are they all take-home assignments? If you could share along with where in the world or what your university is, that would be great! Thanks!