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A bluesky post by hyperspace, @thehyyyype.bsky.social, saying "Cheating on an exam by memorizing everything the professor taught in advance so I can easily answer all the questions. The post was made on January 24th, 2025 at 9:31 PM.

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Kate-ay@lemmy.world
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There’s an episode of Boy Meets World where this is the plot.

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grrgyle@slrpnk.net
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I like to go in blind. At least I have my integrity.

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Fiona@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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I had a professor who in the last lecture gave us the list of all the questions he had (something like 170) and from which he would pick some subset.

He had genuinely managed to ask about pretty much everything in the course, so this really was more of a check-list of knowledge that we were supposed to have. As such it was really nice!

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ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org
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My sister had an old teacher who was immune to this:

  • “Yes we didn’t get to that chapter but it was in the book so YOUR FAULT.”
  • “I didn’t mention it because it’s obvious to a person with half a brain.”
  • “I couldn’t read your handwriting.” (Actually means “You’re not one of my 5 favorite students so I can’t be arsed to get a magnifying glass.”)
  • “Your answer solved the problem but didn’t include the term I was looking for. ‘Area under the curve’ is not how you say ‘integral’.”
  • “That was a stupid question. Next quiz ends 1 minute early.”
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gerryflap@feddit.nl
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We used to be allowed to bring one A4 piece of paper with handwritten notes to most exams at uni. I always crammed them with notes, but very rarely were they more than my emotional support notes. Turns out that writing these notes the night before is a pretty good way to reinforce all the knowledge you need for the test.

The only big exception was game theory. I was studying a master data science (as part of computer science) and game theory was a course from the mathematics master. That was the hardest fought 7/10 of my life. Turns out math is taught very differently to math students than comp sci students.

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