Open book environment tool provides flexibility in teaching and learning techniques, by providing the students with a learning that links the classroom to their lives; and more importantly it put aside rote learning by fostering conceptual understanding. It helps students to acquire new knowledge, to modify existing knowledge on the basis of new experiences, to build new knowledge to solve problems and make intelligent decisions. It is more processing of information, rather information content itself. It helps students to think and rethink the gained knowledge to make it more practical and application oriented. This is done by activating learning through questions, giving different examples, doing exercises, projects, assignments and so on. Open book examination is a commonly used pattern of examination in which students are allowed to refer and copy from a list of approved material or books during the examination. It will help to improve the academic achievement in an open book examination along with promoting critical thinking and creative thinking.
