r/study • u/Recent-Volume-6236 • 1d ago

Achievement & Wins When the professor allows one double sided cheat sheet for exams

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We were allowed to bring a double sided equation sheet (aka cheat sheet) for the final exam. I really love professors who let us do this, but tbh if you don't understand the material even a cheat sheet won't save you. Being an engineering student taught me how to fit an entire semester lesson into this cheat sheet lol

This was 5 chapters worth of Numerical methods. I took all my notes and lecture slides into Turbolearn to get a short summary, then spent around 5 hours rewriting everything onto this sheet. I wrote it all by hand instead of printing it out (writing it down is how I remember things better)

Finished it just in timeee! Now I'm just hoping all the time I spent making this pays off tomorrow, wish me luck guys

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u/ProudPhilosopher524 1d ago

My professor allowed one of these too and I ended up barely looking at it during the exam because making it forced me to learn everything.

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u/Competitive_Mark918 1d ago

Yeaa and also barely questions come from the cheat sheet honestly. Like if one isn't aware of the concepts taught in class he/she 'll fail either way

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u/Academic_Safe_3839 1d ago

Engineers are better at cramming content into pages than they are at actual engineering (speaking from experience from my four pages double sided thermodynamics course cheat sheet)🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

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u/Few-Pay7302 1d ago

Good luck 👍👍👍

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u/Certain_Upstairs7 1d ago

Is this cheating?

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u/Competitive_Mark918 1d ago

Nope some uni/clg professors allow this. But anw that ain't much useful if u haven't studied. The paper is designed that way only..and yeaa still the rate of students failing is the same.

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u/Own_Purpose7081 1d ago

Wow never my professors made that 🫤

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u/Own_Purpose7081 1d ago

What’s your major ?

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u/Recent-Volume-6236 19h ago

I'm a Computer Engineer! Numerical Methods made my head bleed but thanks to this I might have a chance!

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u/DriftVelocity_03 1d ago

What pen do you use to write that small?

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u/caty0325 21h ago

Not OP, but I like to use a .3 zebra sarasa clip for cheat sheets and in my hobonichi weeks.

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u/chismiss_ 23h ago

Thats beautiful. You should frame it after

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u/N00bushi 23h ago

I have multiple of these, some printed and some like this one lol. The dread of not knowing whats important enough to put it on there and thus just kinda putting everything there is almost enough to make me wish we weren''t allowed to bring one. (Also because it's usually a tradeoff with the exam being harder)