Galaxy Brain

I had an earth science teacher that would let us bring in one 3X5 card of notes for our tests, and I would spend an hour or so transcribing all my notes into small print front and back, then go in and ace the test without ever needing them. Just recopying it all was enough.

It's an amazing technique because not only does it trick you into studying, it prepares you for the real world where you'll usually have outside resources available anyway
- Well, now in the real world I can just schmooze people to do my work for me, eh just like in college! /s

Unironically, that should be cheating. Tests should measure your mastery over the subject of the class, passing the test shouldn't be the goal

It's societal collapse type shit

I am failing the test on the subject of this comment for sure.

Learning is cheating

The test should measure everything you can learn

Passing the test shouldn't matter

Society is collapsing because people are passing tests
- I think the comment is anti memorization
- I'm saying the objective (teaching/learning/understanding) has been confused for the metric (test results)
  
  It's endemic. Nothing else in life works like this. Even now, someone is probably reading this like I'm some midwit thinking "well, how do you rank the students, smart ass?". And that's a fucking problem

Breakin the law!
Breakin the law!

/air guitar

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZEkwHrzPtOk
- https://youtu.be/0ZG11UBoj-o

I never wanted to spend time memorizing so I cheated by trying to figure out the system the exam was about and then creating answers based on that

I'll do amazing if the professor taught the material. If the test is over book reading, it's a hit or miss.

Yeah, that's the flaw in OP's plan. It's pretty rare for a class to be completely covered in lecture

I realize what this post is saying, but it reminded me of a somewhat similar situation. In my high school we had to learn the stems of words and their meanings (I.E. Acro = high; acr = sharp, etc). Our English teachers would give us a list of 15 stems (25 if you took accelerated/advanced English) at the start of the week and then on Friday they would hand out a quick test for us to conplete.
The idea was you'd look over the list throughout the week and memorize them that way. But instead I would look at the list 5 minutes before the exam, memorize them, take the test, ace it, then forget about them before the class even ended. Worked every time.

I had a similar approach because my parents didn't like me doing homework at home instead of more "useful" things, but I never really forgot. So I remember a lot of bs :-)

I saw this gag on an episode of Blossom back in the day - Joey had the same epiphany!