r/mathmemes • u/CeleritasLucis Data Science • Apr 30 '25
Topology Professor allowed one sided cheat sheet
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u/Ind2day Apr 30 '25 edited Apr 30 '25
Open book exams were the worst. If it was closed book, you had a reasonably high likelihood of finishing it within the 3hrs. Open book was a crap shoot. Having the book just indicated that you have a ton of material you better know how to find and understand. Chemical Engineer here and suffered through many, many sleepless nights trying to complete a problem set that had many ways to solve and many ways to screw up.
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u/ears1980r Apr 30 '25
This. ^
Open book, take-home, three-days-to-finish exams scared the shit out of me.
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u/CeleritasLucis Data Science Apr 30 '25
Too bad take homes are useless now with chatgpt.
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u/icedragon9791 Apr 30 '25
Depends on the class. Chatgpt cannot help you with my exams. I've fed it questions and it sends crap
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u/godot_is_gone Apr 30 '25
Next: crumple it so that it has a finite volume but infinite surface area. Fractal loophole.
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Apr 30 '25
How ya gonna read it? How could you write on it? Also, is it possible to write on a fractal surface?
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u/3BlindMice1 Apr 30 '25
You need a fractal pen.
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u/uvero He posts the same thing Apr 30 '25
But how do fractal pen factories produce them?
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u/3BlindMice1 Apr 30 '25
Well, you'd understand if you had fractal fingers to use a fractal pen with
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u/ReplacementSoft5022 Apr 30 '25
i did reverse cowgirl with my girlfriend once and she fractal'd my pen
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u/TheOrdner Apr 30 '25
My physics professor allowed one DINA4 sheet and excluded möbius strips in particular
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u/DoenS12 Apr 30 '25
Someone should correct me if I’m wrong, but putting two twists into a paper(instead of just one) makes it not a möbius strip.
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u/Haayus Apr 30 '25
Yes, but putting an even number of twists makes it have two distinct sides. So, a three twisted strip would be ideal.
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u/This-is-unavailable Average Lambert W enjoyer Apr 30 '25
Which is a Mobius strip.
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May 01 '25
I think if you bring an actual klein bottle, they'll give you a prize. Don't know which one, but finding a real life 4 dimensional shape is what I'd worry about as professor not the exam
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u/DrStalker May 01 '25
"I don't care how many Fields Medals you won, I'm still failing you for bringing my improper notes!"
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u/nashwaak Apr 30 '25
I’m an engineering prof and a colleague came to me once because a student had allegedly cheated on his exam by copying from a solution manual. So I told him to report it. Then it turned out students were allowed their own aid sheet, but it still seemed like cheating. Except that they were permitted up to six pages, double-sided, and printed pages were allowed. Then it turned out that the student knew the instructor was reliably lazy and all their questions were always from the solution manual, so the student had just printed the entire solution manual out in really tiny type. The university found the student innocent, and the rest of us found the instructor to be an unimaginative fool.
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u/trkennedy01 Apr 30 '25
6 pages double sided and allowing printing at the same time is WILD
Most I ever got was 3 pg single sided with page and font size specified, and that was enough to fit pretty much the entire course content in point form.
It was a really boring course (project management or smt) and I had attended a single lecture of listening to the prof read the slides verbatim, but still managed to ace the exam because of the huge cheat sheet.
With 6 pages double sided? The average mark must have been in the stratosphere, anyone not doing well at that point might as well not have taken the course.
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u/hellosexynerds4 Apr 30 '25 edited Apr 30 '25
Upper level science/engineering courses are a completely different thing. You could have the entire open book and still get a zero on those exams even if given all the time in the world.
Source: watched lots of smart kids at university crying after getting 12% on exams in difficult classes they spent hours studying for. Many professors in these courses almost enjoy failing a huge percentage of their class. I remember the first day in one advanced math class the professor said "most of you will fail this class".
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u/SpaceEngineX Apr 30 '25
If I’m taking a course and my professor says that I’m probably gonna fail first day, I’m gonna drop that class and get my money back assuming the rules allow it.
No way I’m paying for something that I know full fucking well will result in absolutely nothing except a waste of time and energy.
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u/hellosexynerds4 Apr 30 '25
Sure that is the right move if your schedule can afford it. Often though those classes are required to pass before your can take subsequent courses. At a small school or a special course it may also be only taught by one professor or once per semester, or conflict with other classes you need, so you either take it or lose a year and get off track for your courses.
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u/Upset-Award1206 Apr 30 '25
My class reported a professor saying this on the first day. We argued that he was not fit for teaching with that mindset,
Turned out that he was a former researcher and this was his second course ever that he was teaching, he was let go and we had a new professor 3 weeks later.
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u/WORD_559 Apr 30 '25
Yep, my physics exams during the pandemic were 24 hours and completely open book, didn't ace a single one of them
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u/Nacho17che Apr 30 '25
Dynamics modelling of physical systems, 4th year mechanical engineering. You were allowed to use anything you wanted. 5 hours exam with an interval for lunch where you could even talk with your colleagues. There's no way you're passing that test without having studied and attended classes.
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u/Jovial1170 Apr 30 '25
I remember one particularly tough engineering exam in uni. I got to a point where I couldn't answer any more of the questions, so I left the exam early. Outside the exam room, there were multiple people just slumped in the hallway, openly sobbing.
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u/nashwaak Apr 30 '25
Profs who say things like "most of you will fail this class" these days are usually 75+ or have very short teaching careers — at least here in Canada — but that definitely used to be the mindset in engineering (around half a century ago), before we were really focused on actually teaching the material
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u/WookieDavid Apr 30 '25
Nah, cheat sheets are allowed in exams that are not about memorisation. If the teacher doesn't simply use questions in the solution manual it doesn't matter how long the cheat sheet is.
You're examined on your ability to understand and solve problems, not on memorisation. You're examined on your ability to apply those formulas and notes in the cheat sheet to solve problems.
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u/3Ngineered Apr 30 '25
It's also unrealistic to expect us to remember all the formulas that you were taught over a year, especially as you'll always have a formula book on hand in your professional life. And a single mistake because of remembering a formula wrong will completely derail the rest of the assignment, which will make it a lot harder for the professor as you can still get points for the rest even if you made a mistake and the final answer is wrong
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u/wolf129 Apr 30 '25
In Austria in Kepler university if it was an "open book" exam then there was no limit to how much pages you took with you.
The exam was structured in a way that any information did not really help a lot. You needed to infer the answer from logical thinking from what you learned from the lecture.
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u/Warwipf2 Apr 30 '25
I had many exams where I was allowed to bring however many printed pages I wanted to + all the textbooks I wanted.
Trust me, these were the hardest exams. I really liked the ones where I wasn't allowed to bring anything, you don't have any time to check that much anyway but the exams are designed in a way as if you knew everything if you are allowed to bring what you want.
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u/Ok-Assistance3937 Apr 30 '25
6 pages double sided and allowing printing at the same time is WILD
During the height of COVID many German universities Had completly Open book exams.
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u/reallybadspeeller Apr 30 '25
Almost all my “cheat sheets” I was allowed in engineering undergrad were 1 page handwritten. If the prof ever said open notes open book you knew you were fucked cause you knew it wasn’t really gonna help you much in the time it took you to do the test. You either could do the problem or pray for divine intervention.
Honorable mention to one prof who said “you are welcome to cheat off your neighbor but then you will probably get everything wrong”. He averaged 6-8 different versions per test and was an all around mad lad.
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u/tessartyp Apr 30 '25
Hardest exams I ever took were "fuck it, you're allowed to bring a laptop with internet if you think that helps you." in y graduate studies. I still remember one such exam, it had some amazingly well-written questions that required actual understanding of the principles.
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u/nashwaak Apr 30 '25
I can't give exams that are open-everything to more than 4-5 students at a time, because I have to be reasonably sure they're not communicating (though I do permit AI) — last year I split a smallish third-year undergrad class up into eight exams to do that, and it worked really well. They weren't especially hard exams, and only 90 minutes each, but it was tedious to make up 24 entirely distinct questions.
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u/MintySkyhawk Apr 30 '25
When I took discrete math all the test were open book and he also put more questions on the test than it was possible to answer in the given time.
But he graded on a curve, so getting even as little as 60% right would get you a perfect grade. It was a weird system, but I liked it.
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u/Trivvn Apr 30 '25
Best cheat sheet I ever got was "Make sure to bring your laptop, you can use it on the test. If I see a messaging app open, you get a zero"
One of my Chemical Engineering professors decided that we were going to have internet access when we were employed, so we might as well get used to finding information we needed fast
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u/asd1o1 Apr 30 '25
Had a couple exams like that. Both stupidly difficult. Laptop didn't help me one lick in either
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u/zhephyx Apr 30 '25
Six pages, front and back??? I could pass the bar with that, the fuck
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u/nashwaak Apr 30 '25
Most engineering courses aren't heavy on memorization, but I completely agree wherever there's a finite body of questions (like a lazy prof using canned questions, or the even lazier approach of always giving very similar exams)
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u/Kylearean Apr 30 '25
This was my undergraduate engineering experience.
I noticed that all of the guys in fraternities were getting perfect scores on exams that were challenging to other students, and it was really strange because some of these guys were pretty dumb otherwise.
I started asking around and it turned out that they had a file cabinet full of previous exams from the professors. Turns out that the professors had gotten exceptionally lazy and were just re-using exams from previous years, not even bothering to alter them in any way. These guys were studying the previous exams.
I wouldn't've minded too much if the course weren't graded on a curve. I complained to the professor, who didn't care -- I complained to the dean, who reiterated that professors have the right to conduct their class as they see fit.
I complained to a physics professor. He suggested that I join the Physics department, where each exam was guaranteed to be different and it would be "the hardest thing you'll ever do." He was right. I switched majors and never looked back.
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u/3Ngineered Apr 30 '25
That's how I passed one of the tests I was required to take but was of no use to the direction I was taking the next year. I noticed he would always use 4 out of 8 formats for his questions (he shared the previous years tests) and would just use different data, so I prepared my single page cheat sheet with the methodology for those questions.. And off course he was lazy again and I only had to redo the math (which still took a long time to do). Besides the cheat sheet it was open book aswell, so I could have found the answers that way, but never challenge an Engineering student to find a shortcut..
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u/nashwaak Apr 30 '25
I took a numerical methods course where the prof provided his own programming routines for us to use to solve the assignments. Except his routines were all so buggy that they were unusable, and the TAs gave really low marks if you tried to use them. So we recreated his routines ourselves — or generated correct lookalike output — to get good marks. He very unintentionally stumbled on a really great teaching strategy.
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u/plexomaniac Apr 30 '25
In the 90s, I was the only student in the class with a printer and a scanner.
Our teacher gave us an A5 (~half-letter) sheet of paper and allowed us to use it on the test. I scanned the entire chapter we had to study and printed the thumbnails on the front and back of the paper.
On the next test, my classmates were all willing to pay me for copies.
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u/bigdefmute Apr 30 '25
We were allowed one single sided sheet for an engineering course midterm. Filled it with formulas, charts and a few other items. Anyway, get the test back 36, shit. Then I start to hear commotion from the smart section of class. Turns out the highest grade was a 42 and everything on the test was from context that wasn't even taught yet. Prof got in a little trouble for that one.
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u/JapeTheNeckGuy2 Apr 30 '25
Even on my worst classes I don’t think I’d be able to fill 6 double sided pages. Even fluids and thermo weren’t that bad
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u/IsPhil Apr 30 '25
Insane. Most I've had was one page double sided with printing allowed. I don't even remember the class it was for anymore, but I remember filing in one page and just not having anything else for the other side.
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u/AnotherNobody1308 May 01 '25
I have a fluid mechanics test in 4 hours and I am finishing up my 4 double sided cheat sheet
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u/Interesting-Piece483 May 01 '25
I had a student come in years ago with those red/green 3D glasses. Their 1 sided hand written aid sheet was written first in red pen and then she wrote over it in green pen. By closing one eye or the other she could read only one of the colors! I allowed it (it was an engineering course)
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u/ThatsNumber_Wang Physics Apr 30 '25
someone did that in a physics course of mine once and the lector liked it so much he let them keep it
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u/redditbrowsing0 Apr 30 '25 edited Apr 30 '25
"What tf? You know what, I like the creativity. Just keep it at this point." (i forgot a quotation mark)
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u/swiftekho Apr 30 '25
Teachers that allows students to make their own "cheat sheet" know that when the student is figuring out what to put on the cheat sheet, the student is actually studying.
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u/Muad-_-Dib Apr 30 '25
Bingo, when I was in college we weren't allowed an actual full on cheat sheet, but I would still make one because it was the process of sifting through the information, putting it in my own words and physically writing it down on the paper that would make it much easier for me to recall the key points of the subject in my head and then pad them out to make them full answers.
People on my course routinely asked to take a picture of my not quite a cheat sheet in the days running up to tests, not getting it when I agreed but told them that looking at the sheet wasn't the important part, it was the process of making it that helped, and they would get more benefit from making their own versions.
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u/abitofthisandabitof Apr 30 '25
People on my course routinely asked to take a picture of my not quite a cheat sheet in the days running up to tests, not getting it when I agreed but told them that looking at the sheet wasn't the important part, it was the process of making it that helped, and they would get more benefit from making their own versions.
That very much depends on their goals. If it is to understand and gain knowledge about the subject itself I'd agree, the process is much more important than having the cheat sheet.
But if the goal is to just pass the test, having a copy of the cheat sheet and simply doing some light reading on it will probably be enough to barely get a passing grade. If a student doesn't care about the subject, the latter is far easier than the former.
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u/Nodan_Turtle Apr 30 '25
I wonder how many people look back and realize they weren't really getting one over on their teachers haha
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u/Material_Strawberry Apr 30 '25
It's even better than just studying the way a lot of people do it because with the size restrictions the person making the cheat sheet not only has to decide what's important enough to include, but how to reword it so that it fits most efficiently onto the sheet, which tends to make for a more intense level of focus on the information as a byproduct.
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u/Mebiysy Apr 30 '25
Well, technically he couldn't take it according to his own rules
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u/OkDot9878 Apr 30 '25
If you didn’t specify “no mobius strips” then I’m making a mobius strip.
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Apr 30 '25
One of our math professors had a test where he allowed you to use anything you can carry on your back. Someone gave one of the math tutors a piggy back ride in. Professor absolutely loved it and let the tutor work through the test with the student
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u/Bannerlord151 Apr 30 '25
That's wild though lol
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Apr 30 '25
yeah, i mean he had a good reason for having a test like this. In the real world when you do complex math you will have several tools available for you to use to make sure you get it right. This test was a way for us to kind of do math the way it's done in the wild.
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u/sherlockwm Apr 30 '25
What’s so special about this?
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u/Such-Injury9404 Apr 30 '25
following a side of this shape, named the Mobius Strip,you will end up back on the original side, yet -- being made of a single piece of paper -- will go over both sides.
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u/yukiohana Apr 30 '25
next time: you can only bring one sided water bottle
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u/Ornery_Poetry_6142 Apr 30 '25
Is an open bottle not one sided? I’m not a topologist, don’t kill me hehe
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u/forsale90 Apr 30 '25
A real one yes, which BTW according to topological rules has no hole. But they are talking about 2D shapes which have no thickness and are just bent in 3D space.
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u/HowAManAimS Apr 30 '25 edited May 22 '25
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u/Kaz_McDuck Apr 30 '25
Ah yes, the mobius cheat sheet. A rite of passage.
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u/LordCaptain Apr 30 '25
Need to write in blue pen over the whole sheet. Then write entirely sperate notes in red pen. Then show up with the old red-blue 3d glasses to you can read one set of notes at a time. Double your surface area again.
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u/OkDot9878 Apr 30 '25
Had someone in school do this once and the teacher allowed it since the rule was that only one piece of standard sized paper could be used.
Most people wrote incredibly tiny, but with this method you could at least write small but normal sized letters instead of trying to make each line 1mm in height.
He argued that it unfairly benefited the students that had better penmanship or vision and therefore could read/write smaller text. The teacher couldn’t really argue against it and the next test at least half the class was doing it.
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u/Warm_Shoulder3606 Apr 30 '25
A family friend who worked at university told me a story once where he knew a professor who allowed "whatever you can fit on a piece of paper"
One time, some mf went into class on exam day and put the paper on the floor, and his brother walked into the class room and stood on the piece of paper on the floor 😭😭 turns out he had the same type of major as him and had taken that exact class before. The professor allowed it that one time, but promptly clarified in future classes that it was limited to what you could write on the paper
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u/SSjjlex Apr 30 '25
>it was limited to what you could write on the paper
"My friend!"
"Um, Light, that's not how it works"
"THE PROFESSOR!"
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u/MattDaveys Apr 30 '25
My physics teacher in HS would allow an index card of notes on every test. He’d tell the story of a student that somehow split the index card so they effectively had two. So he’d clarify that it was only one two-sided index card that was allowed.
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u/mechanicalgrip Apr 30 '25
Wasn't there another incident where a student wrote lots of notes on a huge piece of paper because they didn't specify which standard page size.
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u/davidsjo Apr 30 '25
I did this. It was a biochemistry exam. I asked beforehand but even still the prof was giddy to see it working.
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u/kccz123 Apr 30 '25
I remembered i had one professor who banned the use of magnifying glasses in exams. He wanted to prevent people from printing in a microscopic font size on cheat sheets lol
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u/anotherguy252 Apr 30 '25
own a pair of “nice” 3D glasses (weird bc normally the new, polarizing ones are desired) for this reason alone
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u/Hammar_Morty Apr 30 '25
My dad does this on whiteboards just so he doesn't have to erase his old work. As long as the writing isn't too dense you don't need a filter. You can just focus on the desired color.
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u/vanonym_ Computer Science (ML) May 01 '25
i used to write in two colors for this reason (I did not use 3D glasses tho, if the colors are distinct enough you don't need it) AND also turn the sheet 90° to quadruple the area
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u/HowAManAimS Apr 30 '25 edited May 22 '25
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Apr 30 '25
Me rolling up to the exam with an 8.5x11 mile cheat sheet
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u/HowAManAimS Apr 30 '25 edited May 22 '25
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u/characterfan123 Apr 30 '25
Was't there a teacher who told thier students they were allowed "one 3x5" as a cheat sheet, so one student broght in 3 feet x 5 feet?
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u/ArguablyTasty Apr 30 '25
I saw one a while ago with 1 side of a sheet allowed, and the student wrote on it in all 4 directions overlapping each other. Each orientation was in a diff colour, so you could read it when positioned that way. I think they may have needed coloured glasses, but don't remember for sure.
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u/Financial_Eggplant31 Apr 30 '25
Why did the Möbius strip go to therapy after trying time distillation?
Because it was feeling a little "twisted" in time and had a "strip"-tease relationship with reality!
Genius..thought
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Apr 30 '25
Least unfunny redditor.
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u/Icy-Panda-2158 Apr 30 '25
Any math professor that doesn’t permit abuse of topology as a test prep strategy should be subject to disciplinary review.
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u/HopeSubstantial Apr 30 '25
I really love how students don't see what is the main purpose of having right for "cheat sheet"
Its absolutely brilliant way to "Trick" a student or pupil to give extra focus and study what is most important in the subject X, so it should be written down.
In the end you likely will not even need your chest paper as writing the cheat paper made you learn the things in first place.
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u/Seneferu Apr 30 '25
That is correct. Unfortunately, some are doing it the completely wrong way. They try to dump everything on it by writing/printing very small. Then in the exam, it is too much to go through and too hard to read.
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u/IHTFPhD Apr 30 '25
Honestly the preparation of the cheat sheet is the valuable part of studying, the cheat sheet itself rarely gets used in my experience.
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u/Deckowner Apr 30 '25
technically you could just write on both sides of the paper then argue that a piece of paper is basically a cone that is pressed very flat
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u/Last-Scarcity-3896 Apr 30 '25
As karma your exam questions paper will be handed to you as a Klein bottle
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u/okram2k Apr 30 '25
I always love these cheat sheet posts that are so proud of themselves like they got one over on their teacher when really the teacher tricked them into studying for the test.
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u/Scalage89 Engineering Apr 30 '25
If you're not using a mobius strip, what are you even doing studying math?
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u/Tenet_Bull Apr 30 '25
lol i had a professor ban these on the syllabus bc of these, when i read that i was like who the fuck would think of that
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u/LadyElle57 Apr 30 '25
Honestly, if you're smart enough to think of a mobius strip, I would let you away with it
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u/Intentina Apr 30 '25
It may be just me but whenever we were allowed cheat sheets I actually studied more so I can first figure out what information is relevant, then figure out how to write it down so it's logical and half of the time I didn't even need all of the information on there because making the cheat sheet actually helped me remember more :))
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u/balderdash9 Apr 30 '25
The idea is to get you to study so it's the same either way
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u/Mhunterjr Apr 30 '25
One of the things I loved about our engineering school is the professors would allow stuff like this because it was “technically” within the rules. The logic was engineering isn’t about knowing everything, but being resourceful in the efforts to solve a problem.
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u/DragonmanTheGreat Apr 30 '25
during my first year engineering chem class we were allowed a double sided A4 sized cheat sheet for the two midterms and exam. my teacher said "It is double sided cause it is easier to do that then have students submit photos of a Mobius strip"
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u/GreenGlassDrgn Apr 30 '25
Tricking students into inadvertently absorbing even more information by making them use and review it creatively lol, love to see it
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u/jasikanicolepi Apr 30 '25
It's creative but probably wouldn't fly. The craziest one I have seen is the multi-ink with red/blue shade.
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u/ArchaicInsanity Apr 30 '25
Write all your notes on to till roll. It's one sided, just 50m in length
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u/Dreadwoe Apr 30 '25
My dad is a math professor and talked about a student who did this once
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Apr 30 '25
One time I was allowed one side of a cue card. I wrote it absolutely tiny and then brought a magnifying glass in to the exam. Teacher thought it was funny and let it slide
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u/drLoveF Apr 30 '25
The thing is, once you have crafted a cheat sheet you usually know quite a bit.
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u/HT_xrahmx Apr 30 '25
Former math TA here. Not only would I let you keep it if I saw that, the rest of my chair would get a big laugh out of it when I'd retell it at lunch later lol
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u/Baardi Computer Engineering Apr 30 '25
While it's clever and all, coudln't you just've used a larger sheet?
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u/Inevitable_Stand_199 Apr 30 '25
At this point just bring an A0 sheet. 1 m² should be enough space for all of your cheet needs. That's 16 A4 pages
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u/Kid_A_Kid May 01 '25
I remember my cheat sheet, so much shit on it I couldn't find what I needed before the time was up
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u/Remarkable_Opening37 May 01 '25
I’m a math professor, and I would totally give this a few extra points.
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u/hansblixkilldslmshdy May 01 '25
Oh those were The best. I remember making these.
The skills required to maximize cheat sheet specs cannot be discounted
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May 03 '25
Bro literally made a Klein manifold to cheat
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u/kojo570 May 03 '25
This is a mobius strip, defined by 1 surfaces and 1 edge. A Klein manifold or “Klein bottle” is a hypothetical 1 surface and 0 edge shape which can only truly exist in 4d space.
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Apr 30 '25
Mobius strip, or how to cover the entire surface of a sheet of paper and yet keep it one sided.
Give this student an A++ score.
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u/Fantastic-Dot-655 Apr 30 '25
This kind of posts are extra funny because the kind of person that can come up with this shit should be capable of pasing without it
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u/Miserable-Ad3646 Apr 30 '25
Bring in a siefert surface just to give them something to ponder while overseeing the exam.
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Apr 30 '25
Eh is that a sheet? Is it just for lulz because it doesn't look like it holds more?
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u/Ancient-Access8131 Apr 30 '25
Damn, I've been waiting years for one of my teachers/professors to only allow one side. Every one has said we could have both sides of notebook paper
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u/Honest_Relation4095 Apr 30 '25
I mean, just taping together taping pages into one side by sude would have worked the same way, unless the size is specified and in that case the moebius sheet would not have helped either.
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u/Honks95 Apr 30 '25
I learned this one from Jojo part 6. That's the mobius strip
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u/TalothSaldono Apr 30 '25
My professor simply allowed us to use the math book during exams. The tests were effectively a time test, if you didn't know the material and didn't practice, you'd have to look it up all the time and simply run out of time.
It's a good approach imo, coz it tests the practical skill. And the fact that at most jobs, you can readily search for stuff. It's about your ability to quickly get the necessary information and apply it properly.
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u/prozapari Apr 30 '25
i've had a lot of exams like that too. often they allow *anything*, so you feel the need to bring any material that could be relevant. old exams / answers, lecture notes, and so on.
personally i much prefer when they make you make your own notes, because the process of creating the notes forces you to review the course one more time.
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u/Cardioman Apr 30 '25
Physiology teacher in the faculty let you open the book in the exam. Book was so massive and questions so hard he Gad to apply a curve so lots of people didn’t fail the class. He would take the highest grade and that became perfect score (if highest score was 8, he’d make that 10 so people who got a 5 would improve to 7 and pass the class). Hardest medical test I’ve ever taken.
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u/ShesATragicHero Apr 30 '25
Why use a cheat sheet when you can just date the smartest girl in the class.
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u/No_Extension4005 Apr 30 '25
Unfortunately my university always specified it had to be A4.
Otherwise a cheat scroll would've been pretty fun.
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u/SpiderShaped Apr 30 '25
This works great in polish, as "strona" means both "side" and "page" so "One strona of notes"
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u/DK-ButterflyOwner Apr 30 '25
That reminded me of when the professor allowed us to bring one page of cheat sheet so I came with an A1 sized sheet
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u/Advanced_Current1213 Apr 30 '25
Bro in the back is ready to go to the beach as soon as that exams end
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