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      At some point in my life I want to write a long article about how I optimised every aspect of making a cheat sheet. But the main thing is that You can make it on clear adhesive tape and stick it on a Bic Orange pen. I had 6 of these pens on me, one in hand and 5 tucked under my watch strap. All numbered and a table of content placed on the face of the watch.

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        That is so clever and enterprising. Though it does seem like a lot of work, and you still risk being caught.

        My cheating method was foolproof and completely undetectable. See, in the days leading up to the exam, I would look up the answers in the textbook the teacher foolishly provided us at the beginning of the semester. If the answers weren’t there, they’d be in the secret notes I had taken while the teacher was yapping in class days before, clueless they were basically telling us everything that would be on the exam later lol. All I had to do was read those notes the night before, then I could walk in empty-handed and take the exam with no one the wiser that I already knew all the answers!

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        I bet after those high-effort cheat sheets you memorized the materials anyway haha.

        I used to put notes into my TI-83. It was hard enough to convert the formulas into a calculator-friendly format that I usually memorized it and didn’t need to check them any more.

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          No, that would miss the point. I wrote the text together with a couple of friends. A few chapters each. I read 80 percent of the cheat sheet until writing the exam.

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        At some point in my life I want to write a long article about how I optimised every aspect of making a cheat sheet

        Can you LaTeX it?

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      Finest font size your inkjet could muster, small piece of paper glued on with Elmer’s glue onto your fancy pencil with decals on it.

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        Too obvious. That’s black on white. Like every print. A teacher would spot that from the other end of the classroom. And decals? That just limits Your usable space. How much text can You fit that way? And how many “fancy pencils” did You have? Fancy things don’t come a dime a dozen.

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          I had a bunch of them, pencils with patterns of all sorts. The thing was using a pencil that was white on the outside with some noise and then the glue would give it laminated effect which makes it hard to spot that there’s anything on it from afar.