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05-03-2009, 02:16 PM
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I have a final exam coming up, and the professor is allowing the students to use one 4x7 inch notecard, and we can put whatever on it. I know that given the amount of material covered in this course, 1 4x7 inch notecard is nowhere near enough. My card has to be three-dimensional (i.e. I can't put post-it's on the card), and I can't use any instruments to read the information on the card (I can't print out size 0.5 fonts and then bring a magnifying glass).
The notecard will be checked by proctors half way through the exam period, so I can use it before/after, but I have to un-modify the card so that it's just like a regular notecard without too much hassle some time during the period. Anyone have any ideas? My idea was to make a transparent sleeve for the notecard, then write on the sleeve. When checking the card, I could just pull off the sleeve, and then put it back on whenever I need it.
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05-03-2009, 02:23 PM
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You could bring multiple notecards and keep them in your pocket, or get two notecards and glue all the edges together except one, which you could put more notecards in. Or the sleeve idea.
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05-03-2009, 02:28 PM
| | | | Multiple notecards, and just swap them out as you need them. Just make sure you have the same notecard out whenever they check.
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05-03-2009, 02:30 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Madison, WI | | | What I do with the note card:
You study all of the material first, then you quiz yourself.
Whatever you're having a really time remembering, or things you keep mixing up, all goes on the notecard. |
05-03-2009, 02:32 PM
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Originally Posted by ErebusBass You study all of the material first, then you quiz yourself.
Whatever you're having a really time remembering, or things you keep mixing up, all goes on the notecard. | THAT's just unethical  
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05-03-2009, 02:40 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Madison, NJ | | | Size 6 font... smallest that one can read easily with assistance... use a narrow font and play with letter spacing. Minimal punctuation.
This is how I pack everything on a tiny notecard.
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05-03-2009, 02:53 PM
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05-03-2009, 02:53 PM
|  | no really, smokemeth&hailsatan | | Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Pueblo, CO | | | Just write down:
EVERYTHING IS SAFE INSIDE
Stick it outside of the room. |
05-03-2009, 03:04 PM
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Originally Posted by joeinsprings Just write down:
EVERYTHING IS SAFE INSIDE
Stick it outside of the room. | EVERYTHING IS SAFE INSIDE EVERYTHING IS SAVE INSIDE EVERYTHING IS SAFE INSIDE > O.K.
The informational field created should alter your perception of any ambient noise within the room, reflecting such noise off the answer key to the test and bouncing the answers into your ears.
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05-03-2009, 03:09 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Norway | | I'm not good nor creative when it comes to cheating. I would however tip you to use no spacing at all, and use tiny dots over and right to the last letter of the word, thus separate the words. Like'this'I'am'thinking. Also, u'cn'skp'ltrs'n'msscr'wrds'2'mke'it'shrtr. Basically just ditch the vowels.That way you wouldn't cheat, only bend the rules somewhat.
When I was in (early) youth school (fail translation, I don't know the English equivalent), I made a whole alphabet. Only I could read it, because it substituted normal letters with signs and numbers and sometimes inverted letters that didn't mean the actual letter when inverted back (say, an inverted R meant C). You could try something like that, because it'd be hard to prove what it says. But in later time I've found that it'd be just as quick just to learn the material |
05-03-2009, 03:09 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Edmonton, Alberta, Canada | | | Write: I have a gun pointed at you under the desk. Politely back away but stay in my field of vision. If you touch a phone I waste the person next to me.
When they come to check it they wont even notice the multiple cards you pull out of your pocket after that.
Or draw boobs on it or something. |
05-03-2009, 03:26 PM
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Originally Posted by tplyons Size 6 font... smallest that one can read easily with assistance... use a narrow font and play with letter spacing. Minimal punctuation.
This is how I pack everything on a tiny notecard. | It's for organic chemistry, there's more pictures than words. Quote:
Originally Posted by funkalicious101 Write: I have a gun pointed at you under the desk. Politely back away but stay in my field of vision. If you touch a phone I waste the person next to me.
When they come to check it they wont even notice the multiple cards you pull out of your pocket after that.
Or draw boobs on it or something. | Good idea, will definitely use it sooner or later.
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05-03-2009, 03:35 PM
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05-03-2009, 03:40 PM
|  | is, against all odds, still a scuba viking. | | Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Alta Loma, California | | | the sleeve idea is a good one.
you could also wear a long-sleeve shirt and have answers written all over your fore-arms.
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05-03-2009, 03:57 PM
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05-03-2009, 04:23 PM
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Originally Posted by AmazingGracePlayer It's for organic chemistry, there's more pictures than words.
Good idea, will definitely use it sooner or later. | What level of study are you at?
Maybe write some basic equations.
What certain groups of compounds turn to etc.
It's chemistry, it's easy!
Or you could just study and not use the card
(or try taking in a bit of card that's 4ft by 7ft and claim you got told the wrong info ? )
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05-03-2009, 04:42 PM
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Originally Posted by AmazingGracePlayer It's for organic chemistry, there's more pictures than words. | Figure out the core principles underlying the concepts, and those should all fit on the card. A mistake most people make with Orgo is assuming that it's just memorization. |
05-03-2009, 05:01 PM
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Originally Posted by fdeck Figure out the core principles underlying the concepts, and those should all fit on the card. A mistake most people make with Orgo is assuming that it's just memorization. | big +1. |
05-03-2009, 05:07 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Fort Collins, Colorado | | | The OP completely misses the point. He needs to STUDY, and if there are a few key words, characters or equations he wants to note that will prompt his memory on critical points, he can put them on the card. It's a memory aid, NOT a cheat sheet...and that's what a memory aid is - a prompt. There is no substitute for knowing the material.
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05-03-2009, 05:09 PM
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Originally Posted by joeinsprings Just write down:
EVERYTHING IS SAFE INSIDE
Stick it outside of the room. |
ooooohhhhh no wonder it doesn't work, i have been sticking that in my underwear.
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