I hate those kinds of tests. Tests that just randomly test knowledge across the board, knowledge you probably won't ever need (or can just look up if you do need it at some point). They're always such a pain. It should be enough to just test if the students understood the foundations and applicances of the material in question.

Although it's hard to argue that these tests are in fact pointless, because they do make you expose yourself to all the material to a high enough degree so that if they do come up at some point in the future, you at least remember something about it in the back of your head.

I still don't care for them.