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[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 71 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Robbing a bank by just working at the bank until retirement so they don't realize I am taking their money.

[–] Chronographs@lemmy.zip 18 points 6 days ago

I too have seen that k&p sketch

[–] tipicaldik@lemmy.world 41 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I had an earth science teacher that would let us bring in one 3X5 card of notes for our tests, and I would spend an hour or so transcribing all my notes into small print front and back, then go in and ace the test without ever needing them. Just recopying it all was enough.

[–] 474D@lemmy.world 31 points 6 days ago (1 children)

It's an amazing technique because not only does it trick you into studying, it prepares you for the real world where you'll usually have outside resources available anyway

[–] sheogorath@lemmy.world 13 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Well, now in the real world I can just schmooze people to do my work for me, eh just like in college! /s

[–] Agent641@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago

Daddy will pay them to let me pass

[–] greenbit@lemmy.zip 12 points 6 days ago

I never wanted to spend time memorizing so I cheated by trying to figure out the system the exam was about and then creating answers based on that

[–] theneverfox@pawb.social 13 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Unironically, that should be cheating. Tests should measure your mastery over the subject of the class, passing the test shouldn't be the goal

It's societal collapse type shit

[–] NoForwardslashS@sopuli.xyz 7 points 6 days ago (2 children)

I am failing the test on the subject of this comment for sure.

  • Learning is cheating
  • The test should measure everything you can learn
  • Passing the test shouldn't matter
  • Society is collapsing because people are passing tests

I think the comment is anti memorization

[–] theneverfox@pawb.social 2 points 6 days ago

I'm saying the objective (teaching/learning/understanding) has been confused for the metric (test results)

It's endemic. Nothing else in life works like this. Even now, someone is probably reading this like I'm some midwit thinking "well, how do you rank the students, smart ass?". And that's a fucking problem

[–] TachyonTele@piefed.social 13 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Breakin the law!
Breakin the law!

/air guitar

[–] potoo22@programming.dev 8 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I'll do amazing if the professor taught the material. If the test is over book reading, it's a hit or miss.

Yeah, that's the flaw in OP's plan. It's pretty rare for a class to be completely covered in lecture

[–] Pirky@lemmy.world 7 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I realize what this post is saying, but it reminded me of a somewhat similar situation. In my high school we had to learn the stems of words and their meanings (I.E. Acro = high; acr = sharp, etc). Our English teachers would give us a list of 15 stems (25 if you took accelerated/advanced English) at the start of the week and then on Friday they would hand out a quick test for us to conplete.
The idea was you'd look over the list throughout the week and memorize them that way. But instead I would look at the list 5 minutes before the exam, memorize them, take the test, ace it, then forget about them before the class even ended. Worked every time.

[–] Valmond@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago

I had a similar approach because my parents didn't like me doing homework at home instead of more "useful" things, but I never really forgot. So I remember a lot of bs :-)

[–] cheeseburger@lemmy.ca 3 points 6 days ago

I saw this gag on an episode of Blossom back in the day - Joey had the same epiphany!