'Exam time starts and I whip out my 3D glasses': Determined student creates masterful workaround for teacher's test-taking rule

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    3D Exam Cheating Back in the 1980's when I was in high school we were not allowed calculators and we could only write pre-test notes on the front and back of a 3x5 notecard. Formulas, important dates and details. That sort of thing.
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    The teacher would gloss over topics and then expect us to know details for the exam. So I used a red pen to fill out as much as I could and then I used a blue pen to refill the same card as much as I could.
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    We had to line up and show our teacher our 3x5 card before the exam started. He sees mine and because it just was like looked like a blur of red & blue ink scribbles. Other students saw and couldn't understand what I had done.
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    Exam time starts and I whip out my 3-D glasses. My teacher then comes over and demands that I not cheat.
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    Since I technically only had 1 card, the same as everyone else, it was not cheating. He gave in and I passed the exam but did I have a headache after a 2 hour exam.
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    Equivalent-Salary... I have seen letters from the 19th century in which after the page was full the writer would turn the paper 90 degrees and fill the page again but now at a right angle to the previous writing. They were surprisingly easy to read.
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    TnBluesman 30 years ago I took the state license exam for mechanical contractors. You were allowed only certain books and a calculator. Radio Shack had just come out with the PC 8 pocket computer. Literally fit in a shirt pocket, and programed in Basic.
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    I spent a week programming in look up tables for duct sizing, pipe sizing, heat gain/ heat loss and R values for about a hundred common substances. Then one short program to tie it all together.
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    The test was in two four hour segments. I finished. each segment in under two hours and still, today, hold the 2nd highest test score in state history. One point behind the GA Tech professor who wrote the tests. Only a calculator? No problem.
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    greykatzen My first quarter teaching, I wondered why the rules for notes were so specific (get a 3x5 index card from your TA, hand written, only blue or black ink, turn it in stapled. to your exam). I soon learned. I think most departments have the one red and blue card of notes that causes them to tighten up the rules. Again.
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    Though to be honest, I doubt they're really all that necessary; the ones who work hardest on their cards are studying while they do it. and likely work hard elsewhere in the class. But preventing migraines from some kind of multicolor notes pages arms race seems like it's for the best
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    vampyrewolf I have REALLY tiny printing, could always get a ton of info on that single sheet we were allowed. Still remember my university physics class, rule was we were not allowed ANY notes when we walked in the door. I just waited until we picked up a copy of the test and a sheet for notes, sat down and wrote out half a page of
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    formulas and a couple quick charts. Electronics work only has so many formulas and a couple really useful diagrams. Just the chart for capacitive reactance and inductive resistance vs frequency has saved me countless times, but then my work has been in video on demand, wireless data, and wireless voice
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    nell... A jokster at my school brought in a large card that was 3 feet x 5 feet and proclaimed to the teacher, "Here's my 3 by 5 card!"
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    [deleted] Had a similar policy in college, early 90s. I made a 5 point font on my old macintosh computer and typed out everything I could think of. Printed it all up on a 1000 ppi printer. A+.
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    cabird78 Kids these days have 3D printers. OP had a 3D cheat card - a true visionary. A headache for two hours, but a lifetime of genius.
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    Sez_Whut I would print in a small font and then reduce further on a copy machine. I had room. for completed sample problems along with the formulas.
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    billyyankNova I went to college about the time that computers were becoming commonplace. I had one professor that allowed one page of notes for an exam. I printed all the notes I could think of in the smallest font I could read.

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