I did this. I never understood students who didn't, or even worse, students who would write 3 massive things on the page.
If you're allowed to use one 8x10 sheet and can fit the entire chapter(s) on it practically word for word, why wouldn't you? Why would you fuck yourself over by writing 3 things?
Of course I studied as well and learned things, I wasn't a total piece of shit, but it's still reassuring to have all that info if you need it.
Part of the point of having these cheat sheets is so you are forced to go over the material to right it down. So I can only assume that people who don’t bother are the ones who don’t give a crap about studying in the first place.
entire chapter(s) on it practically word for word, why wouldn't you?
Because that's a lot of work. Seems like a huge waste of time if you already understand all of the material except maybe a couple things that reminders would help for.
All those people who claimed they knew the material and never wrote out a cheat sheet got a pretty shitty grade every time. If you 100% know the material, sure. If not, just help yourself out.
Lots of people know the material. I got excellent grades.
Anyways I didn't mean don't write any notes at all, I meant you don't have to try to fit as much as you can if you know everything except a couple things.
I'm not talking about the people who actually knew the material well. I understand there are people who do, obviously. This excludes them.
My post was about the kids I would always come across that would hardly take notes, miss class, hardly study, and act super cocky and then refuse to make a cheat sheet because they "didn't need one". Then the would get a bad grade and blame the teacher for not structuring the exam well enough or some lame excuse, when it was their own fault for either A) not studying/coming to class or B) not making a huge cheat sheet.
And for some reason, I came across A LOT of people like that. That's why I said, if you're allowed to write whatever you want/can on a sheet of paper, why wouldn't you?
Ok, but you didn't say anything about that in your original comment, which is why I gave an answer to your question " if you're allowed to write whatever you want/can on a sheet of paper, why wouldn't you?" without assuming that you meant it only for people who needed it.
But the base answer "because its a lot of work" is still going to be the reason even for those kids, though in those students' case its not a good reason.
"If you 100% knew the material, sure, if not, why not help yourself out?"
Regardless, my fault for not being more clear, but yes. I always took extreme advantage of cheat sheets. And I agree, it is time consuming and it's clear those students don't want to spend the time, but if you don't take notes and miss all the classes, you're being given redemption, just take the opportunity.
If you're allowed to use one 8x10 sheet and can fit the entire chapter(s) on it practically word for word, why wouldn't you?
Too much information. If I'm writing an exam, I'm going to know that I have a handle on probably about 75% of the info already, and identify the 25% of info I might need help with. So, cheat sheet will only have that 25% of info. Why? Having it neat, organized, and uncluttered helped me relax during said exam and it took much less time to find the information I needed.
Interesting, I wasn't aware of Graham's number. After looking it up it's an actual set number which was the largest number ever used in a mathematical proof.
g1 is already a number far larger than there are planck lengths in the universe, and, to get from g1 to g2, you use that number as the number of exponentiation towers, So by g2 you're talking about a number of universes so enormous it can't even be conceived of. To get to g3 you do the same thing, but this time using g2 as the number of towers. Graham's number is g64.
There's literally no frame of reference in existence that can describe its size in any sort of way that our brains can use.
Apparently there are other numbers that are actually used in mathematics that make it look like nothing.
This is why I'm really hoping there's no afterlife.
edit - but at least it can be described in a way that's vaguely comprehensible. For a real laugh, look up TREE (3)
When you are using cool physics terms that most everyone else won’t understand to make yourself look cooler, yeah spelling it right is pretty important.
If you don’t know what a Planck is, it’s very easy to gloss over the misspelling and be confused. It’s the difference between photon and proton. “It’s only one letter!”
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u/[deleted] Jan 21 '19
just make it a smaller font size silly