I had a National Security graduate course in Research Methods where the professor would give us all the questions in advance. We were allowed to make hand written notes, and we could bring in a computer file with our URL’s as each question we chose to answer (had to pick 4 from 8) was required to have a minimum of 2 web sources. All of the actual writing of the answers had to be done in class and we had exactly 3 hours and 10 minutes to finish.
Our answers had to be done using Word and had to have 1” margins and be done in a size 12 font. We could not use our names, but had to have our student # on each page as well as the number of the question we were answering and page # of #. Each question had to be answered in exactly 2 pages. You could go a sentence or two over, but any less and you lost 10 points and with each question being worth 25 points, that was a major loss.
And, the instructor would fiddle with the temperature in the room, so it would either be up to eighty or down to sixty.
He wanted us to be able to handle stress!