Notecard

brianwelsch

Write down everything on as many cards as you need. Then for your own peace of mind write the parts down you still have trouble with on the final card. Chances are you won't reference it much anyway. Writing everything down will help you remember it. BW

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PJ Arends

kmaz wrote: Any ideas??? Use a very fine point pen and write small, very small.

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Daniel Turini

kmaz wrote: For a test I am allowed to use a single 3x5 notecard, and nothing on it can be typed. I love the subtle torture techniques of your teacher. The sadistic touch is that students will spend most of their time trying to fit info on the notecard and not studying, improving chances they'll fail at the test. Trully, work of a master. :) My suggestion is using an alphabet of more than 26 symbols (e.g., uppercase is not the same as lowercase will give you 52 symbols). This will allow you to compress way more information in the same physical space. Create a whole language based on this and you'll be able to compress a whole book chapter on a single page. The only drawback is reading it on the fly at the test, you may need to decompress parts of it on a temp blank page before using it. Yes, even I am blogging now!

Chris Meech

Write everything you need in normal fashion on a great big piece of 17x14 white piece of paper. Then take this paper down to the photocopier and reduce it in size to 3x5. Cut 'n Paste the 3x5 piece of paper to the card and you'll be set. Good Luck. :) Chris Meech I am Canadian. [heard in a local bar] Gently arching his fishing rod back he moves the tip forward in a gentle arch releasing the line.... kersplunk [Doug Goulden] Nice sig! [Tim Deveaux on Matt Newman's sig with a quote from me]

Steve Mayfield

Using both sides gives you a writing area of 30 sq inches - seems like a lot of room for notes. Use only nouns and verbs :rolleyes: Steve

Henry miller

Re-think what you want on the card. My experience is professors who limit your notes do so because if you know the material you can easily fit everything in the much space using big letters. If you don't know everything, then you will fill the card with a lot of stuff that you shouldn't need. If you have done your homework, then you should have a good clue about what commonly comes up, and you have memorized a lot. Most of the time I never looked at my "cheat sheet" on the test.

Paul Watson

Yeah, break your arm and write on the inside of the cast like most kids do. ;) Seriously though, don't let this card idea stress you out. As Turini says you will end up focusing on it and not the test. regards, Paul Watson South Africa The Code Project South-East Asia Disaster: How you can help Pope Pius II said "The only prescription is more cowbell. "

jhaga

Instead of writing text use pictograms, small pictures representing abstract ideas. I use it alot. jhaga --------------------------------- Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new. Henry David Thoreau, "Walden", 1854

wrykyn

Split an A4 sheet into 8 parts (4 on each side) and write liberally on them. Then compress that to the card. When compressing it try and come up with some sort of shorthand or something. I used this method in graduate school. Highly recommend it. "One of the Georges," said Psmith, "I forget which, once said that a certain number of hours' sleep a day--I cannot recall for the moment how many--made a man something, which for the time being has slipped my memory."

David Wulff

5 / exactly.

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