A teacher of mine had similar rules in highschool, and I remember one girl brought a fucking scroll that unfurled down to the floor.
Eventually it's less a test of what you know, and more a test of how quick can you get through a reference guide.
It's a way to trick kids into studying and to raise test scores.
Also to have some rare fun when people do the above.
Yeah I can confirm. In a good test for many classes (especially math, science, and engineering) all the open notes and textbooks won’t save you if you aren’t prepared. I had a 3 day take home test in one of my engineering classes where all resources except each other were permitted and despite preparing, I, like many of my classmates, was scribbling in it in the hallway to turn it in. Fucking brutal exam.
I’m not a teacher, but honestly I think that’s a fine way to do things. If you can create a resource to answer questions from and find answers using it in a timely manner, then the problem is solved. You’ve learned how to answer questions
Several of my coworkers cannot use resources already provided (Google) to find answers to common questions
Btw if anybody is still in school, this is still a great study method. I make cheat sheets for my exams and the challenge of streamlining the important information from a semester to a single page is the best study method I've found, because not only do you have to devise what is and isn't important, but by handwriting it you remember even more. The best part is, it doesn't take a ton of time to study this way, especially compared to rereading the text or going over notes.
Accept my teachers increased the difficulty for those test and if we had to use calculators oh man did they make it complicated. Total jerks.
Well usually that way the tests aren't just about if you remember a specific formula but if you can actually use them effectively and that is a much more important skill.
Someonw should have told that to my school. It was always the thing we learned with overly complex numbers. Always cost us so much time.
You kind of have to accept it, the teachers write the tests.
Philosophy students: Turn up with the textbook along with all of their notes, and write a dissertation on why it all qualified as "one-sided."
Without help from the topology kids
It leaves out the perspective of the ants, very one-sided
"Shhh! Don't tell the students that letting them make a note card is actually tricking them into studying! SHHH!"
YOU SON OF A BITCH!! HOW DARE YOU MAKE ME LEARN????!
my plotter ready to write the entire Wikipedia by pen:
Cool professors just give you a formula sheet.
Especially in engineering.
It’s called newtons laws and it’s all the formulas you need except for the entirety of the SI and conversion ratios to American equivalents which you are expected to have memorized beforehand. Welcome to dynamics. /hj
wtf is /hj?
Hand job
That should be in your conversion ratios notes.
half joking
Half joking
I remember buying jumbo note cards after my professor said we were allowed to bring a notecard without specifying the size.
I also remember commandeering my school’s ultra high resolution poster printer in order to print notes in extremely small font, alongside using LaTeX to let me format the document in a way that maximized my ability to stuff it full of information. The person who helped me do that let me know that the note sheet alone cost the school roughly $4.00/double sided page, or 1/100th the lab fee for the class I printed it for, even though that class had no lab and was in a regular, non-lab lecture hall.
Oh jeez, I just wrote every symbol and formula in the biothermo textbook really fucking small. My eyes still could handle such things when I was young and hadn’t done things like that repeatedly
Honestly, if I saw that in class I wouldn’t care because it’s funny and helps with real world examples of some concepts
In practice simply asking the professor if using a Möbius strip is acceptable will get them to amend the rules to allow double sided.
more likely rule out "tricks" like this
Möööbius sheet
I saw a meme about using red and blue ink and old 3D glasses with one red lens and one blue. That seemed pretty smart.
One time in high school, someone asked about this shape during a math exam and our professor showed us this shape. Nobody could do it, as the formula sheet was just a sticky note, but it wouldn't be a problem if someone could've made it, the professor said.
Bullshit. All these teachers give more instructions than this
should’ve specified that note cards need to be orientable. smh
it's Möbius stripin' time
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