So, we get to use one side of a typed page as notes for tomorrow's AP bio final.

[Merlyn3D]

I remember for one of our AP bio midterms years and years ago, we got 2 3x5 notecards of notes. As it turned out, in the end making the notecards made us learn everything we need to know anyway, and few of us even looked at them during the test, if at all.

 

[Spencer278]

Originally posted by: brtspears2
< 8 pt font, little to no margins, underline key terms or new ideas. Whatever you do, use a laser printer!

Bold for truth.

 

[MercenaryForHire]

Originally posted by: illustri

Originally posted by: Tremulant

Originally posted by: illustri
you can have drawn stick figures having sex instead of formulae and perform just as well if you associate it with the required knowledge

so instead of like.. y = mx + b, you'd have two stick figures drilling eachother?

Nice..

if you have to write down the a linear eq for a straight line you might as well cut pictures out of playboy and paste it to your page

/since you wont be using your dextrous hand for writing correct answers might as well jerk off

Nice one.

- M4H

 

[aplefka]

I always just copy from my notes and use about size 6 arial narrow... I made a 6-page booklet for my last world history final and made some copies and passed them out. Needless to say we all got the highest grades in the class, and I actually didn't even need it (the whole thing where since I wrote it I didn't need it cuz I knew the info).

 

[notfred]

Type up all the information you want to bring with you, then shrink it enough to fit on one page. You might find that at 8pt, you don't have enough stuff to fill the whole page.

 

[jjones]

Is there a limit to the size of the sheet? If not, use a roll of paper and print as much as you want on one side.

 

[TitanDiddly]

Print it once in red ink, then more data in blue, and use filters so you see only one at a time.

 

[mobobuff]

Originally posted by: PhasmatisNox
Print it once in red ink, then more data in blue, and use filters so you see only one at a time.

 

[PoPPeR]

Originally posted by: illustri
back in hs I remember discovering note cards and test sheets are just hype

what really helps is associating the thing you learned to what you write on the card, and this is only done by rote memorization, understanding, and repetition

whats on the card should only serve as a reminder, so that just by glance it reminds you of what you already memorized

you can have drawn stick figures having sex instead of formulae and perform just as well if you associate it with the required knowledge

and this helps in last minute panic mode how?

 

[Black88GTA]

Originally posted by: russianpower

Originally posted by: Chraticn
This being an AP class, i don't even know why we're getting a note sheet, but now that we have one, rockin.

I'm thinking that 8 font, tiny margins is the best way to go, but you guys are incredibly creative in most cases.


Got anything for me?

they gave us an index card to write stuff down to use on the final.

I had a class in HS where he gave us a 3x5 card that we could use for whatever we wanted during the test (which was basically a definitions/vocabulary test with a lot of words.) I fit every word (140 or so, IIRC) with its definition on the card by microsizing and squeezing the font and doing away with line spacing . He couldn't believe it. Needless to say, I aced that one.

Moral of the story? Never underestimate the power of a 3x5 card

 

[pennylane]

If they don't specify the size of paper, use that to your advantage.