That won't work in a tutorial system, the student will be quickly discovered to know nothing about the subject. And in open note finals, as in the Exeter Uni. Physics department of the 1970s, regurgitation of course material was of very limited utility because you were never asked for that kind of response. The quantum mechanics final didn't ask a single question that had been directly answered during lectures, it asked us to extend what we had learnt. That exam was what I think Americans might call a 'white knuckle ride'. Open note finals really sort those who understood the subject from those who thought they could just look up the answers, the invigilators spent a lot of time shushing people searching through rucksacks full of notes.
Many years later I took a course in C# at a university in Norway and that was not merely open note but also open book (you could take the set book in). Again that gives the exam author the possibility to really discover who knows what.
I doubt that your rich middle-western student would have passed either of these