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[–]Ouchider 201 ポイント202 ポイント  (60子コメント)

I like these. I've even seen courses where you get +1 point in the exam if you bring the note.

The secret reason of allowing students to bring one page of hand-written notes to exam is to make them at least once think through the course material and decide what is important.

[–]NPVT 58 ポイント59 ポイント  (3子コメント)

plus writing them down helps re-enforce memory I would assume.

[–]agentnola 3 ポイント4 ポイント  (0子コメント)

For most people yes

[–]Grenli 1 ポイント2 ポイント  (0子コメント)

Yep. I found that writing notes down made it easier to remember them than typing it down.

[–]HAHA_goats 0 ポイント1 ポイント  (0子コメント)

Yup. For my last test that allowed a note card, I wrote my card five times explicitly to make myself remember. By the third card I pretty well had everything memorized, and I wound up not even needing the note card during the test.

But it was also pleasant to have that sense of security brought by having the note in case I go blank on some question.

[–]hazelnox 16 ポイント17 ポイント  (0子コメント)

I definitely explain this to my classes when I tell them about the cheat sheet. They look at me like their whole lives finally make sense, which is good, I suppose.

[–]stickygoPhysics 0 ポイント1 ポイント  (0子コメント)

In my QM and applied QM courses we were allowed the use one a5 with notes during the exams, very effective concept.

[–]sw4l 96 ポイント97 ポイント  (9子コメント)

Almost every time I have been allowed to bring a sheet of notes, I haven't looked at it once because by the time the test happens I already know the sheet.

[–]Teblefer 67 ポイント68 ポイント  (1子コメント)

But it was a comfort to have it there

[–]HansJuanAnalysis 12 ポイント13 ポイント  (0子コメント)

Except if you forget the note like I did

[–]alphygian 37 ポイント38 ポイント  (0子コメント)

That's the point, according to my profs. And if you don't, the sheet is still there. win-win.

[–]SunilTannaMath Education[🍰] 18 ポイント19 ポイント  (3子コメント)

There's a limit to how useful notes can be in a calculus exam.

[–]diracnotation 6 ポイント7 ポイント  (0子コメント)

Very funny

[–]SolarShrieking 0 ポイント1 ポイント  (0子コメント)

Happy Cake Day <3

Also, I completely agree. Formulas will not get you very far.

[–]AnilRadhakrishnan 0 ポイント1 ポイント  (0子コメント)

Ayy

[–]dlgn13 0 ポイント1 ポイント  (0子コメント)

Yeah, but it's comforting to have and making it is good review.

[–]Dadentum 0 ポイント1 ポイント  (0子コメント)

That's the point.

[–]sleeps_with_crazyErgodic Theory 52 ポイント53 ポイント  (25子コメント)

Now write on top of it in red ink and you'll be able to double it.

[–]butt2face 24 ポイント25 ポイント  (23子コメント)

That's what I did for a computer science class. Wrote in blue pen. Rotate the page 90° then write in red.

[–]Aromir19 57 ポイント58 ポイント  (6子コメント)

That's pi over two you barbarian.

[–]arthur990807 13 ポイント14 ポイント  (1子コメント)

I prefer "pi halves" myself.

[–]nerga 21 ポイント22 ポイント  (1子コメント)

That's tau over 4 you barbarian.

[–]ratboid314 2 ポイント3 ポイント  (0子コメント)

That's the first positive zero of cos(x) you barbarian.

[–]harlows_monkeys 0 ポイント1 ポイント  (1子コメント)

That's a generator of the order 4 cyclic subgroup of the order 8 dihedral group, you barbarian.

[–]Aromir19 0 ポイント1 ポイント  (0子コメント)

Oh nooooo my feeble bio brain!

[–]kogasapls 64 ポイント65 ポイント  (7子コメント)

I just encoded a latex file for a properly typeset 12-page reference sheet in binary then printed it at the highest possible resolution on my printer. You just have to memorize the compiler, it's very efficient.

[–]G-BrainNoncommutative Geometry 16 ポイント17 ポイント  (3子コメント)

If you use plain old ASCII to encode your text files, then writing the binary as 0s and 1s on paper increases the length 8-fold (and worse for Unicode). It's much more efficient to use the color of pixels (8*3 bits per pixel if you use RGB) to encode your data.

[–]flukshun 1 ポイント2 ポイント  (1子コメント)

Wouldn't it just be 8*3 bits per pixel? 2563 would be the number of possible combinations. Just like how hexadecimal characters can represent 16 possible values, but only encode 4 bits.

Still pretty damn efficient though, if you've got good close-in eyesight... (edit: well, and impossibly good color recognition)

[–]G-BrainNoncommutative Geometry 0 ポイント1 ポイント  (0子コメント)

Whoops, you're right of course.

[–]isarl 7 ポイント8 ポイント  (0子コメント)

Some of the classes I took which allowed crib sheets foresaw your compiler memorisation and insisted upon handwritten-only crib sheets. Are you good at pointillism?

[–]derp_trooper 2 ポイント3 ポイント  (1子コメント)

What does this even mean?

[–]nerga 9 ポイント10 ポイント  (0子コメント)

He's making a joke. He printed out binary of a latex file. Which If he memorized the compiler he would then have the final latex file with the human readable format. The compiler of course is a computer.

[–]lampishthing 8 ポイント9 ポイント  (0子コメント)

Ah the 90 degree rotation is genius!

[–]Asddsa76 8 ポイント9 ポイント  (0子コメント)

"Everything the wise woman learned she wrote in a book, and when the pages were black with ink, she took white ink and began Again"

-Karn, silver golem

[–]jze123[S] 7 ポイント8 ポイント  (0子コメント)

Was it actually legible?

[–]end112016 6 ポイント7 ポイント  (2子コメント)

Unless your test was covering the birth/death dates of famous CS pioneers, what on earth did you need 2 pages of notes for in CS?

[–]SometimesYAnalysis 7 ポイント8 ポイント  (0子コメント)

Hello World over and over

[–]codeycoderson 1 ポイント2 ポイント  (0子コメント)

I filled two 8.5"x11" sheets of paper back and front for my Theoretical Computer Science final this semester. DFAs, NFAs, PDAs, CFGs, pumping lemma for regular and context free languages, Turing Machines, decidability, reducibility.

There really isn't anything you could possibly think of to fill a sheet of notes with for a CS exam? I wish I had gone to your school.

[–]eru_melkor -2 ポイント-1 ポイント  (0子コメント)

Did you write it in the shape of a kitten?

[–]tisti 2 ポイント3 ポイント  (0子コメント)

Or blue and red and wear anaglyph glasses :)

[–]meanmedianmoge 18 ポイント19 ポイント  (2子コメント)

I have a sneaking suspicion that OP might be one of my students, as our ODE final is today and those examples seem pretty familiar to ones I covered in a review session. Of course, there are tons of finals weeks going on currently, but not many which have the professor's 1 sheet of notes rule.

I look forward to grading one of the questions on your exam, student of an unknown gender.

Context: prof and TA's usually split up grading to one question or page per exam. (I don't know if this is common practice everywhere??)

[–]mc8675309 5 ポイント6 ポイント  (0子コメント)

The first time I saw a physics class get graded I was like, "of course!" The prof had the TAs in a line in one of the labs and they graded assembly line with him at the end putting the final grade on and recording it.

They had clearly done this before as they went through the pile in a hurry.

[–]SometimesYAnalysis -4 ポイント-3 ポイント  (0子コメント)

You should ask the class when the narwhal bacons.

[–]rikeus 19 ポイント20 ポイント  (9子コメント)

I hate that most courses only allow hand written notes. I get that they don't want people typing in tiny tiny font, but I have a fine motor disorder that makes writing neatly and compactly incredibly difficult, and I feel like that puts me at a constant disadvantage compared to others.

[–]jze123[S] 23 ポイント24 ポイント  (1子コメント)

I think most schools would make an exception for a medical reason like that. Maybe with the condition that you use a certain font size. I would definitely ask your professor/school.

[–]Aromir19 11 ポイント12 ポイント  (0子コメント)

Yeah, most schools make you go through an accessibility office, and mine likes to drag its feet over things like that. I have a goddammed psychological assessment(4 actually) that outlines my LDs and recommended accommodations, and I can still get less than half of them approved by the office. So now I'm stuck in this game of approaching each prof/instructor or both in some cases to ask for things that aren't in the accommodations package that's sent to them every semester and I'm worried if I do it "too much" I'll get a reputation among the people I need to impress to even think about doing honours. Real easy to develop imposters syndrome like that. So yeah, prospective undergrads, check your schools accessibility office when assessing schools, because I know for a fact that other schools would grant me better accommodations, and they have higher rated programs. /rant.

[–]Differenze 15 ポイント16 ポイント  (2子コメント)

Write your notes on your pc, buy a pizza and a six pack and go to your friend with the best handwriting. Got to have your mates back!

[–]rikeus 14 ポイント15 ポイント  (0子コメント)

implying I have friends

[–]Aromir19 3 ポイント4 ポイント  (0子コメント)

Do you want a greasy formula sheet? Cuz that's how you get a greasy formula sheet.

[–]edneilMathematical Physics 5 ポイント6 ポイント  (0子コメント)

I used to write my notes at full size on an A2 sheet of paper and shrink them with a photocopier to fit on A4 :)

[–]goerilaApplied Math 2 ポイント3 ポイント  (1子コメント)

As a TA that has banned computer notes because people seriously abused it. I would make an exception for you and so would any reasonable teacher. Talk to your teacher.

If your professor decides to be mean, go talk to the disabilities resource center, they should be able to intervene.

[–]spewin 1 ポイント2 ポイント  (0子コメント)

It's probably not a good idea to make a special exception for a student without a specific request from the disabilities office of your school. If a student approached me with this problem, I would immediately send them to the disability resource office.

[–]dogdiarrheaDynamical Systems 0 ポイント1 ポイント  (0子コメント)

Please talk to the accessibility office about your disorder. They can work around this and other issues for you. I know I've had students with similar disorders and it made their midterms and exams nearly impossible to decipher. The student eventually went to the accessibility office and they were able to arrange for someone to type up his midterms and exams. It was easier to grade him and he ended up doing better since we could understand his arguments better.

[–]heptyne 8 ポイント9 ポイント  (1子コメント)

I recall once a professor told us we could have a "3x5" to use on a test. Of course, most of us assumed an index card. But since he did not specify units, one clever student brought in a 3'x5' poster of notes. The teacher admitted he was caught slipping and allowed it.

[–]ratboid314 4 ポイント5 ポイント  (0子コメント)

As long as the ratio is correct, any unit would work, like miles. Or lightyears.

[–]Drift3r 3 ポイント4 ポイント  (3子コメント)

Only hand written notes eh?

I'd of used Lecturenotes (or MS OneNote, etc) on a tablet with a stylus to right my notes and then resized the hand-written digital notes to add even more notes and then printed them out. Technique they'd be hand written because they were written on table with a stylus.

:P

[–]jze123[S] 2 ポイント3 ポイント  (2子コメント)

Nice try!! My professor explicitly said we couldn't use any kind of printing, copying, or computing to make it. I guess people must have tried that in the past when he just stated "hand written"...

He didn't say anything about microscopes though.

[–]suqoria 2 ポイント3 ポイント  (0子コメント)

What you do then is do exactly as he said, then print it, then put an other sheet of paper over it, place it against something bright, then you go ahead and follow it exactly. Then as someone else said rotate 90 degrees and do again but this time in red inc.

[–]FuzzySAM 0 ポイント1 ポイント  (0子コメント)

I've explicitly told students they were allowed to print or do whatever, but they never have. Not in 5 years of giving tests and allowing notes.

[–]Penisgrowl 4 ポイント5 ポイント  (0子コメント)

Oh, sweet summer child. This is a handwritten page of notes from an embedded systems course.

[–]BlueSubaruCrewPDE 2 ポイント3 ポイント  (1子コメント)

Jesus those power series diff eq's are some of the most annoying problems I've ever had to do.

[–]fauxonly 0 ポイント1 ポイント  (0子コメント)

I'll go ahead and give them the #1 spot, for me.

[–]Shockingandawesome 1 ポイント2 ポイント  (0子コメント)

You could handwrite four pages of small writing then scan them and print into one page. It's still technically hand written!

[–]ryeinn 1 ポイント2 ポイント  (0子コメント)

I used to allow that for my High School Physic students.

And they just decided to start copying someone else's the morning of the day of the test. So I said "Fuck it," and give them a sheet that I think is important. No more cheating/laziness and I still can say you don't have to memorize anything.

[–]DrewBk 3 ポイント4 ポイント  (3子コメント)

If there is just one skill I have learnt, it is writing really small.

My handbook for an exam from a few years ago

[–]hazybluez 36 ポイント37 ポイント  (2子コメント)

This is like, normal sized writing.

[–]Romulet 4 ポイント5 ポイント  (1子コメント)

Maybe his notebook is make of post-it notes? We need a banana for scale.

[–]Yajirobe404 1 ポイント2 ポイント  (0子コメント)

Recipe learning best learning

[–]plexluthor 0 ポイント1 ポイント  (0子コメント)

My father is proud of a grad school crib sheet. Had to be no larger than an index card, so he carefully wrote out a full page, photographed it, and brought a magnifying glass.

[–]zomgnerd 0 ポイント1 ポイント  (1子コメント)

I just had Dif Eq for Engineers final this past Monday. It was open book and open notes cause the teacher is literally that bad....

OH! And it was 4 questions.

[–]74576480449124578456 0 ポイント1 ポイント  (0子コメント)

Perhaps you would enjoy full blown Diffeq more. I hate engineering type courses. The more math heavy my physics courses get, the better I do.

[–]tylerhz 0 ポイント1 ポイント  (0子コメント)

Oh gosh, now I want to go home and post some of my notecard cheat sheets.

[–]goiken 0 ポイント1 ポイント  (0子コメント)

At least, if you fail you can start selling those as wallpapaers ;-)

[–]se3k1ngarbitrage 0 ポイント1 ポイント  (0子コメント)

Are you not given a Laplace table? Seems like a lot of room on that sheet used for common trnasforms.

Mine allowed no notes but we were given a Laplace table. Would have preferred notes on complex e-vector/value matrix solutions, that was the "gatcha" that dropped me a letter grade.

Overall nice efficient use of space OP. Good luck.

[–]jasonumd 0 ポイント1 ポイント  (0子コメント)

Definitely have been here.

[–]Plotit 0 ポイント1 ポイント  (0子コメント)

I had a teacher that allowed that too but only in one side of a paper, so a friend made a Moebius strip out of an A4 and filled it with equations. Unfortunately the teacher didnt allow him to use it :-(

[–]Rabbitybunny 0 ポイント1 ポイント  (0子コメント)

Hmm, only one page for the final huh. I thought the typical case is one page for each midterm, and #(midterms) + 1 pages for the final. At least then, the "cheat sheets" (as they are also called) won't be so congested. People then tend to put full examples down anyways, so that'd be pages of crawling ants.

[–]Damadawf 0 ポイント1 ポイント  (0子コメント)

Interesting, pretty much every maths/science exam that I've done at the tertiary level has always included a formula sheet so that the vital formulas are there for students. I think it balances out since they never label what any of the variables are (especially in physics), so if you don't study then you probably won't know how to use specific formulas during a given test.

[–]AIMpb 0 ポイント1 ポイント  (0子コメント)

I love how are the very top you can tell you were trying to save as much space as possible. Then around half way down you started saying fuck it. Then at the end you went oh shit, I'll save space again.

Reminds me of John Mulaney and his birthday sign joke.

[–]Raknarg 0 ポイント1 ポイント  (0子コメント)

Is it just me, or is being taught math with this kindof thing as a requirement pretty much bullshit?

[–]sapperRichter 0 ポイント1 ポイント  (0子コメント)

So much empty space, amateur.

[–]budddddd897 0 ポイント1 ポイント  (0子コメント)

Did you Laplace the class?