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How would I "cheat" on an exam?
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I wrote all the answers into my phone and a separate A4 piece of paper in my shoe during one of my exams. Then all I had to do is ask to go to the toilet, whip out the paper and check over everything I was stuck on or hadn't done yet.
All the girls wrote the answers up their skirt, as a teacher wouldn't be able to have a look, lol.
All the girls wrote the answers up their skirt, as a teacher wouldn't be able to have a look, lol.
As other users posted, learn the principles. Most of second semester organic chemistry is just reactions between nucleophiles and electrophiles under favorable conditions. If you memorize a few pKas and some general rules it should be ok. Certain things do need to be memorized, like what (organo)metallic compounds are used for what reactions (grignard, nickel for hydrogenation, etc). But honestly I think all of that can fit onto a notecard if you write small.
Also you can save space by writing reactions by ball and stick drawings, and save a little space by drawing benzene rings as o's with slashes through them, halides as an x, etc.
Also you can save space by writing reactions by ball and stick drawings, and save a little space by drawing benzene rings as o's with slashes through them, halides as an x, etc.
a good idea by popinfresh:
instead of a skirt, you could say that you're honoring some obscure relatives from Scotland that showed up at your door yesterday, and rock a kilt.
instead of a skirt, you could say that you're honoring some obscure relatives from Scotland that showed up at your door yesterday, and rock a kilt.
Dear God. I've only been given the gift of a notecard of information once in my acedemic career (11th grade Computer Science). I didn't need to ask how to use it. Sharpen the **** out of your pencil. Write small. Coat with hairspray to keep the graphite from smearing. Oh yeah....study. If you've been blessed with the ability to bring outside information to an exam, it's because they know you couldn't possibly fill it up with everything they will test on.
Mike
Mike
I like to write stuff on my ankles and wear long jeans, then cross my legs when I need the answer. You can get a ton of pencils, shave the yellow paint stuff off and write whatever you need there.
Bingo.
To me the real value of a notecard was in making it - forcing me to assess the things I needed to focus on. In fact if I found myself actually leaning on the notecard it meant that I wasn't doing all that well on the exam.
O-chem was the first class that made me realize that I couldn't cram for everything. It's about understanding, not memorization and there's a reason it washes out a lot of previously pre-med students. I think you'd be much better served trying to understand major principles than spending time trying to figure out how to cheat.
Best of luck.
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I recall one opportunity like the one you describe when I was in college. The professor stated that the 1/2 sheet of paper we were allowed to use as a cheat sheet for our final exam, could have any and as much information as we could put on it WRITTEN BY HAND! The course was advanced chemistry. I spent 2 days picking and choosing the really important stuff and then writing as small as I could to fit it all on a half sheet of paper.
On test day, I looked at that sheet of paper ONE TIME. That's right, I knew all the information, definitions and equations, from scrutinizing them and then writing them so carefully.
Pure genius. That professor was one of the wisest people I've ever met.
On test day, I looked at that sheet of paper ONE TIME. That's right, I knew all the information, definitions and equations, from scrutinizing them and then writing them so carefully.
Pure genius. That professor was one of the wisest people I've ever met.
+1 In college we quite often had open book exams. The theory being in "real life" you where not told you couldn't look up formulas etc. It didn't make the exams any easier since if you didn't understand the principals, the text wouldn't help. Plus you didn't have time to look up everything.
That was my experience too. By the time I had written, and re-written the sheet, I didn't need it any more.
Also, if I couldn't figure out how to distill the entire course onto a single sheet of paper, I was going to get killed on the exam. That's one reason why I majored in math and physics.
Amusingly, I once taught a college math course. A student accidentally left his crib sheet in the blue book. Not only did he fail the exam, but the crib notes were wrong.
Coincidently, one of my O-Chem professors told a story about a student who tried to cheat.
Apparently this kid took the time to write crib notes on an entire roll of toilet paper and then carefully wound it back up. He swapped in the bathroom next to our lecture hall just before the test so he could use the restroom during the test and cheat.
A grad student happened to use that stall a few minutes into the exam. He discovered the notes and put the TP to its intended use.
Apparently this kid took the time to write crib notes on an entire roll of toilet paper and then carefully wound it back up. He swapped in the bathroom next to our lecture hall just before the test so he could use the restroom during the test and cheat.
A grad student happened to use that stall a few minutes into the exam. He discovered the notes and put the TP to its intended use.
Very true...in fact, we knew that if we were going to have an open-book exam, it was going to be difficult since the only thing to test us on at that point was pure application and creativity...
To the OP, you're really better off figuring out what to write on that notecard than on wasting time figuring out how to cheat...good luck
(I hated organic chem)..and BigO, that's an awesome story..
I don't see why you can't simply put information that you need down in a word processor at a very small font, print it out, cut the paper into strips and simply paste all the text that you need onto your card, be it front and back, so you can get your test done. With that said, your "sleeve" idea is idiotic, simply because there is no plastic thin enough for the naked eye to be unaware of, and professor's know ONE thing to do when someone takes advantage of the system they've created: take it away and say you cheated.
