Why I Love Cheat Sheets

[Din]

semesters worth of info on one sheet. havent decided if i will be able to read it or not

 

[Castuserraticus]

From the faded memory banks I recall the action of writing the summary to be the important part. I could visualize where the answer was on the sheet and remember it.

[Guest bigbadbrent]

i wish chemistry had cheat sheets

[Din]

i wish chemistry had cheat sheets

 

first cheat sheet since 1st year... wish accting had them though they wouldnt help whatsoever....

[Guest bigbadbrent]

have yet to have a course with these..though i make them up anyway as a study tool

[Guest bigbadbrent]

u got one tomorrow Mitch?

i got my anal chemistry one at noon thirty

 

sigh

[Din]

ya at 2..strategic management...real exciting... prof is calling it a midterm, but its really a final. have a group project due at the end.

[Tako]

I just wrote my worst exam ever. Open book GIS lab exam. Yea, open book. If I got 30% I'll be laughing.

[polegrl]

i wish chemistry had cheat sheets

 

When I took organic chem at U of C, the two profs teaching the course realized that the year's students were just not getting diastomers/enantiomers and whatever else they were teaching us. Two wks before finals they handed out a list of the 150+ reactions taught over the year - reactants and products. There were none of these electron pairs/free radicals approaching double bonds etc. But! We weren't allowed to bring this list into the exam. I spent two weeks studying the list and pulled a B without knowing a thing.

 

The only thing I remember is that ozonolysis splits double bonds and puts oxygens on the end.

[Lundvike]

u got one tomorrow Mitch?

i got my anal chemistry one at noon thirty

 

sigh

 

anal chemistry?? I think you probably shouldn't abbreviate it that way. makes it sound like a whole different type of exam.

[Highlander]

Man, I don't miss exam time.

 

I had one Prof that taught Rock Mechanics who (in retrospect) set the most challenging exams. In the last class we asked him the usual questions. What's going to be covered in the final exam? Answer - Everything from day 1 in the course. Will it be open book? Answer - Yes, bring whatever books you want and whatever notes you want. Also the Engineering library will be available to you for whatever you think you might need. None of it will help you. Just don't ask any grad students to help you - they won't. How long will the exam be? Answer - It all depends how much attention you were paying in class. You should be able to finish it in 30 minutes, but I'll give everyone 4 hours.

 

We go into the exam expecting something heavy on the theory, instead he gave us a bunch of rock core logs and rock testing results, geological mapping and a plan view showing the location of the boreholes and the location of a proposed tunnel. The question - Design the support for the tunnel.

 

In one small question, we had to cover just about everything he taught in the course from day one. That was the single most challenging exam I've ever written. And yeah, I spend all four hours trying to figure things out. I don't think I put pen to paper for the first hour. Ended up with a B.

[Tako]

anal chemistry?? I think you probably shouldn't abbreviate it that way. makes it sound like a whole different type of exam.

 

It's not. Show up, bend over, lube, brace. At least, that's how my anal chem tests went

[mvdaog]

Both anal chems were an easy A...

For me at least

But then again, I am somethin like a genius

[Lundvike]

It's not. Show up, bend over, lube, brace. At least, that's how my anal chem tests went

 

actually thats pretty much how all my university chem and calculus exams went