Paradox of open book exam!!!

Had a long tough day. It has been just 3 weeks that classes started and today I had two exams in same day. Ironically the most dreaded statistics exam was ok but the apparantly easy economics one took the breath away!!!

ISB has this concept of open book exams where you can take in any number of books in the examination hall and refer (Though only for very few courses and economics is one of them). I thought this would be a cake walk but damn it was nightmare. There was no time to refer to books. If you refer books then you loose time and would loose marks for that matter.

Sometimes what you think is easy turns out to be difficult...