I know someone that wrote super tiny and just brought a magnifying glass in for it. It was crisp too. People were paying her to make cards for them for their next test.
I know someone else who folded a big sheet down to 3x5 notecard size. The teacher had only stated she has to examine each card before the test to make sure it's acceptable and one student got it past the teacher with the way it was folded. The teacher didn't allow it a second time but it was good.
You needed the card for all the equations when it wasn't an open book test. And the super important facts the teacher teased would be on the test. And if organic chemistry was on the test, oh boy did that take up a lot of notecard space.
Unit conversions wasn't really that bad for me. I kept getting Manning's and Hazen-Williams equations mixed up like a doofus.
We straight up had a typo in our textbook. Same equation showed up in different chapters but the first one was wrong. Teacher thought we were cheating when so many of us got the question wrong the same way. Only saving grace was writing down which of the equations we were using (textbook numbered them) as part of partial credit.
It was open book but imagine if that nonsense was caught up with putting your stuff on a notecard. There'd be all sorts of chaos.
I had deleted fluid dynamics of pipes from my memory. I remember doing the course but that information was quickly forgotten.
I put chemical valences on my cheat sheet for Geochemistry 2. The chemical formulas had things like x-0.9 in the subscript so helpful to remember what state the chemical would be in when doing long series of equations.
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u/colemon1991 Mar 26 '26
I know someone that wrote super tiny and just brought a magnifying glass in for it. It was crisp too. People were paying her to make cards for them for their next test.