[quote name='Strell']I'm glad I'm not the only person who thought of this.
"Professor wears a stupid hat and skates to class. Always shoves me in the hall, and then says he scored a point. I don't
ing know what he means."[/QUOTE]
[quote name='Dream to Dream']You spelled genius....
Nevermind.
#[/QUOTE]:lol:
I don't know about cheating, but a helpful way of doing well for me is to study hard. If there are any sets of facts I know I'll need, but am having a hard time remembering without a reference, I come up with a table or something with the information and review it right before going into the test. It's then the first thing I write down on the coversheet of the exam.
An example is in Organic Chemistry I set up a table of the names and structures of the 20 amino acids involved in protein synthesis because I knew I couldn't remember off hand all of the names and definitely not the structures of the side groups. So I arranged them in alphabetic order and remembered how many AA's started with each letter and associated the structures with the ones next to them in my mind. Then it was easy to regurgitate as a chart on the test and reference throughout.
Again, not cheating and definitely not a shortcut, but it is one major way I attempt (and usually succeed) in doing well on tests.
As for shortcuts in note taking, I love the teachers who provide the powerpoint slides on Blackboard ahead of time. I simply print them all off for each lecture and instead of wasting time writing down verbatim what is on screen, I can focus on writing "filler" notes of the teacher's explanation of the info on each slide.