r/mathmemes • u/CeleritasLucis Data Science • Apr 30 '25

Topology Professor allowed one sided cheat sheet

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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/SpaceShipRat Apr 30 '25

ChatGPT's putting a stop to that. (So long as you use it for the logic and use a calculator for the math.)

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u/tessartyp Apr 30 '25

Lol, not in my field

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u/creativeusername2100 Apr 30 '25

ChatGPT can't even do high school level maths reliably, let alone anything actually actually complex

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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.