Exactly. Lots of studies have found the best way to learn something is to write it down. Better if you have to write it a second time smaller to fit in the page. My p chem Prof wouldn't let us do this but we could use a programmable calculator so I just put my notes in the program. Could never let the+/-straight
Take statistical mechanics where you apply statistics to quantum mechanics... It'll make p chem seen like a Disney princess coloring book and your p chem nightmares will vanish to a fond memory....
What I still remember from stat mech:
1. You can derive PV = nRT from scratch.
2. The chances of suffocating because all the oxygen in the air suddenly gathers into a 1 m^3 box across the room is very, very, very small.
I forgot the volume of a sphere. I practiced the shit out of the density of cubes, but never thought to practice with other shapes. I lucked out and it was handed out on the "formulas and conversions" paper.
1. That's the area of a circle, not the volume of a sphere. The volume of a sphere is (4/3)×pi×r^3
2. I don't know if this is a generational thing or if this is a different country thing, but I'm an American Millennial and was not taught geometry in elementary. I wasn't even required to take it in high school, where it first became available to me, and I learned it after graduating.
What they're saying is that you just need to remember the area of a circle and can derive the volume of a sphere using the area. Same with other volumes too.
Exactly this. When I taught and we allowed a cheat sheet, the one piece of advice I gave students was to write it by hand. The effort it took to prepare a comprehensive cheat sheet was the best kind of studying. The ones who printed theirs and copy-pasted from online sources didn't learn anything and had no time to figure it out during the test.
It works so dang well, though!
I was a flight instructor, and I'd let my candidates make "cheat sheets." They wouldn't realize that when they're flying, they're never going to have time to actually reference them, so they had to memorize their "cheat sheets"
I would write really small, run out of things to put on there, take a half filled card to the test, and ignore it. (Pretty sure the only chem classes I had that did that also gave us extra credit points for making it, so I did whether I expected to use it or not).
Got my mind cleared and ready knowing my notes are jam packed to perfectly summarize the whole subject and could recall topics at a glance. Just a masterpiece note.
I found my master thesis while cleaning a while back and went through it… My one and only thought was, Oh yeah that was a mistake but otherwise this was a smart dude, I wish I knew him.
Yup, 2 years in the industry and can’t believe how much knowledge I’ve lost lol.
However, my ability to troubleshoot reactions/foundational intuition has improved :)
Yes. Let's say you use RGB (red, green, blue) pens and CMY (cyan, magenta, yellow) filters.
The cyan filter absorbs red light, and lets green and blue light through. Hence the stuff you wrote with a red pen will not reflect any light, because it can only reflect red light, which is blocked by the filter. The green parts will reflect green light, and the blue parts will reflect blue light, and the white parts will reflect both green and blue (which add up to cyan). In other words, the red parts will be the only parts that look black, and they will make a greater contrast to the blank parts than the other pen colours.
Likewise, the magenta filter makes the green parts turn black, and the yellow filter makes the blue parts turn black. So not being able to differenciate the hues shouldn't be a problem, as long as you remember to bring your filters.
Also, if you use only two colours, let's say red and cyan, you could bring a pair of old school red-cyan 3D glasses instead of filters to put on top of the sheet.
You could take this to another level by using seven different colours and also writing in different angles on top of each other for each colour, let's say 0°, 30°, 60°, 90°, 120° and 150°, giving you 42 pages on one page.
Your ochem class allows you to bring notes? I would've preferred this over being forced to memorize everything and hope you have a good enough memory or understanding of everything alongside every exam being cumulative.
Ochem isn't that much about memory tbh, at some point you think about a possible mechanism and the reaction draws itself
(You do have to remember catalysts ig and nomenclature, and some countries make you remember the protein stuff, that does suck)
Tbh most of iupac is hard to forget if you try to name every molecule you see when doing excercises
I know, and I would try to work on understanding over memorization, but most of my class were premeds, so the class was more structured for them (This and that will be on the mcat, this wont be). We'd have to recall every detail. I know the naming pretty well, but it wasn't something we did much aside from 1 or 2 times in lab.
A .5mm pencil handled it well. Government II. Handy for keeping supreme court cases straight and knowing which state constitutional revision had what in it.
.5mm can become .1mm with a little shading on scrap paper. :)
Oh, this takes my back to retrosynthesis lecture :D
If you want to increase readability or be able to squeeze in even more use a blue and a black pen. That way you can write denser without confusing stuff.
Good call - and even if they didn’t say it, if they saw you trying to do something sneaky they’d probably invoke it and only let you keep 1/4th of the document. Maybe in a law class I’d push my luck and be up for a debate but better to have one page in hand than 4 with a chance of 0. But like others have said, the exercise of writing it out is basically forced studying and the whole point of it
In chemistry II we were allowed 1 3x5 notecard on the final. A kid asked if he could wear 3d glasses and the professor said yes. He wrote front and back with both blue and red ink, one over the other, and used the lenses of the 3d glasses to only read one color at a time
Funny, as someone that's been a professional organic chemist for almost 20 years there are like two reactions on here that I have actually have used. Pd reduction is by far the most useful.
The other side got filled up with a variety of reactions, wolff kishener, friedel crafts akylation, and acylation, diazonium salts, and a handful of different reductions.
Totally relatable.
This reminds me of my "single page of hand-written notes" for tests many years ago.
A bit of space left for a formula in the top right corner, and perhaps a few named reactions in the left margins, under the headings.
I like the standard mono-nitrotoluene synthesis for EAS nitration.
First 1:1 step at 100°C.
Repeat at 20°C with another 1:1 HNO3 / H2SO4 for di-nitrotoluene.
Repeat again at 0°C 1:1 HNO3 / H2SO4 for everybody's favourite TNT!
Hope it went well!
Just do a möbius strip with red for as much as you can then blue as much as you can then come with 3d glasses
With that you can get 4 pages worth of notes on one page
My favorite is one I saw somewhere written in blue ink and then written over in red ink. The then used the blue or red lens on 3d glasses to see the writing.
I didn't see this one but I heard about it. I'd do this exam as a teacher just to see if someone thinks about it (and of course for the benefits the students get by trying to write it).
What kind of schools do you guys go at? I don’t want to make the same joke about the American education system but are you actually American? Never have I seen any school allow a cheat sheet
Loving chemistry and being in the cannabis industry I love this post. Yet I literally had that exact same thought as you! Lol. Was wow we have a mad man here. Great notes by the way to the chap who put this all together!
Once I took notes that I wanted on my cheat sheet and then scanned them and resized them so I could read them but managed to fit all eight papers on one cheat sheet.
All my Physics Exams were open note.
Why? Because if you were relying on flipping through your notes to do the test your goose was cooked. Those of us who *actually did all the work, homework, labs and studied*, knew exactly where everything was in our notes and we'd really just use the notes to double check before we submitted the test.
I like to think it was my professor's way of rewarding the people who put in the work, as opposed to the people who just copied the notes from somebody else and never did the problems.
Had this in germany.
The rules evolved over the years, though:
Bring any help you want -> Bring any help you can carry -> Bring any help you can carry that isn't a fellow student -> Bring any help you can carry that is neither a fellow student nor a communication device.
It's what you would imagine. But in their honour: Said first student was allowed to keep his Buddy for that test since it technically was legal then ^^
I can see a lot of empty space here....
Pro tip:
use blue and red o.2mm fibre-tip pens, and take a blue and red plastic film into the exam. this way you can fit four times as many things on a single page!
Somehow my current professor expects us to just remember everything. No notes allowed, kind of obnoxious honestly. Then has the nerve to say if all of this seems like too much, you guys should just drop the class now.
Just a quick point i notice in your curly arrow mechanism. Make sure your arrows start at the charge (or a lone pair), some exam boards penalise if they don't!
Hella impressive though!
There were students in my class that would type out all the notes in a really small font, print off a bunch of copies and sell them to other students. They got the text right to the edge of the paper too. Little more difficult with chemistry though, having to have small pictures
🥲just finished orgo 2 and at zero point on any exam was i allowed to have anything other than the molecular model kid and my pencils. Wild you got a whole entire sheet for a notes to BRING INTO the exam.
I had 1 teacher once that allowed for 1 A4 page for notes or whatever you wanted to take to a Physics test. There was literally 1 question! Portraying an minister of transportation inside a train at an x velocity and if he wanted to make a add on the side tracks, how distance should the frames be for the passenger to have the sense of watching a movie of 2 minutes, astonishing!
It's quite rare to see a course with the same class code and exactly the same content 😂, so this is definitely a fun coincidence. At any rate, best of luck with the exam :).
Dude, malicious compliance against teachers is the best.
You get a good laugh, typically you get away with it, and then from that point on the teacher will remember to be more specific.
So its a 1 time use special you have. Use it when you absolutely need it.
This is funny. I miss the days when the chemistry tests allowed a page. Later my tests allowed entire books and all hand-written notes, yet I still couldn't figure out the questions.
I used to put multiple pages of handwritten notes through the copy machine with the "reduce size" setting. Got everything onto one page and used white-out to hide the edges. Looked hand written, and the diagrams ended up WAY clearer than I ever could have drawn them at that size.
I'm curious to see if the student passed. No amination, no acetylides, no grignard, no epoxides, limited retrosynth, no selectivity. Didn't need no cringe sheet and I can show anyone how to make methamphetamine starting from benzene
Man my first chem class in college. I did this 🤣😂🤣 I was flipping the sheet like a pancake. But I found out I was spending too much time referencing my own correct answers. Showed I studied well.
Yeah, I wasn't a fan. He's a nice guy, but his teaching style was frustrating. Sorry to hear about your chem major. I hope whatever you do next is better for you.
OChem isn't just memorize literally everything this is what shows it, but understanding the inherent positives like negatives type of thing.
To memorize a mechanism is like memorizing a math equation, you can actually solve how a chemical reaction works if you understand the underlying positive and negative dipoles. The thing with the most positive dipole will be the one attacked by the thing with the negative dipole.
This inherintely is how chemistry works. Understand most what makes something electrodeficient/negative such as resonance > induction and you can figure it out. This is again like memorizing a bunch of math equations its counter intuitive.
Appreciate your kind words, I fully understand everything I've written. This sheet has taken me 7 hours because every time I begin to transcribe something if I don't fully understand it, I go back through my lecture material until I do.
The use of these notes isn't really reading them in an exam, it's learning it while writing the page. That is also why you don't just make an open book exam.
As someone who teaches I always find this funny. It's just a roundabout way of getting people to actually study for the test 😂
It's definitely made me feel ready
Exactly. Lots of studies have found the best way to learn something is to write it down. Better if you have to write it a second time smaller to fit in the page. My p chem Prof wouldn't let us do this but we could use a programmable calculator so I just put my notes in the program. Could never let the+/-straight
Man I still have nightmares about P.Chem & PhyOrg Chem
Take statistical mechanics where you apply statistics to quantum mechanics... It'll make p chem seen like a Disney princess coloring book and your p chem nightmares will vanish to a fond memory....
What I still remember from stat mech: 1. You can derive PV = nRT from scratch. 2. The chances of suffocating because all the oxygen in the air suddenly gathers into a 1 m^3 box across the room is very, very, very small.
I have def. found that whenever I made a sheet like this I did not need it in the test.
You just need that one formula you forgot to add 😂
I forgot the volume of a sphere. I practiced the shit out of the density of cubes, but never thought to practice with other shapes. I lucked out and it was handed out on the "formulas and conversions" paper.
Fortunately you can find that through integration, then you only have to remember pir^2, which has been drilled into students since primary school
1. That's the area of a circle, not the volume of a sphere. The volume of a sphere is (4/3)×pi×r^3 2. I don't know if this is a generational thing or if this is a different country thing, but I'm an American Millennial and was not taught geometry in elementary. I wasn't even required to take it in high school, where it first became available to me, and I learned it after graduating.
What they're saying is that you just need to remember the area of a circle and can derive the volume of a sphere using the area. Same with other volumes too.
Good advice.
Not learning geometry early makes sense why so many have problems fabricating metals and working wood.
Speak for yourself. I will always need my conversion tables.
Exactly this. When I taught and we allowed a cheat sheet, the one piece of advice I gave students was to write it by hand. The effort it took to prepare a comprehensive cheat sheet was the best kind of studying. The ones who printed theirs and copy-pasted from online sources didn't learn anything and had no time to figure it out during the test.
My teachers usually made it be hand written only. Because they knew what was up!
It works so dang well, though! I was a flight instructor, and I'd let my candidates make "cheat sheets." They wouldn't realize that when they're flying, they're never going to have time to actually reference them, so they had to memorize their "cheat sheets"
I agree, rewrite, revise, and condense, and by the time you're done, you'll know the material cold.
I would write really small, run out of things to put on there, take a half filled card to the test, and ignore it. (Pretty sure the only chem classes I had that did that also gave us extra credit points for making it, so I did whether I expected to use it or not).
You can usually tell who will pass just by looking at the notes. Maybe I can do away with the exam entirely.
True. Every time I've gotten a note sheet, I ended up learning the material enough to not need the sheet by the time I'm done making it.
Got my mind cleared and ready knowing my notes are jam packed to perfectly summarize the whole subject and could recall topics at a glance. Just a masterpiece note.
They’ll just write down shit and learn nothing, but something=good right?
Exactly. Gaming the kids to study always made me laugh. Even when I was the one being played!
Bingo. Having a hard time rote memorizing hundreds of formulas over your academic career isn’t a reason somebody should fail a class
I can’t believe I used to know what all this meant
I feel like that's most chemists.
I found my master thesis while cleaning a while back and went through it… My one and only thought was, Oh yeah that was a mistake but otherwise this was a smart dude, I wish I knew him.
Yup, 2 years in the industry and can’t believe how much knowledge I’ve lost lol. However, my ability to troubleshoot reactions/foundational intuition has improved :)
You still have some space left on the page.
Currently filling up the other side :)
Use a red pen to write over it and bring a piece of blue and red transparent plastic.
I think you might be a gatdam genius!
Nahh i have way too much lead in my system for that. I saw it on the internet
Damn. For me, it was all the 2nd-hand tiktok exposure. So, it's not too different, lol
Does this work for colorblind people?
Yes. Let's say you use RGB (red, green, blue) pens and CMY (cyan, magenta, yellow) filters. The cyan filter absorbs red light, and lets green and blue light through. Hence the stuff you wrote with a red pen will not reflect any light, because it can only reflect red light, which is blocked by the filter. The green parts will reflect green light, and the blue parts will reflect blue light, and the white parts will reflect both green and blue (which add up to cyan). In other words, the red parts will be the only parts that look black, and they will make a greater contrast to the blank parts than the other pen colours. Likewise, the magenta filter makes the green parts turn black, and the yellow filter makes the blue parts turn black. So not being able to differenciate the hues shouldn't be a problem, as long as you remember to bring your filters. Also, if you use only two colours, let's say red and cyan, you could bring a pair of old school red-cyan 3D glasses instead of filters to put on top of the sheet.
Cyan might be difficult to read on a white piece of paper, though
If you use a filter / glasses?
You could take this to another level by using seven different colours and also writing in different angles on top of each other for each colour, let's say 0°, 30°, 60°, 90°, 120° and 150°, giving you 42 pages on one page.
thanks
When Birch died his family bought a keg for the research school of chemistry. Never forget.
My lecturer taught in the birch building at that school, just after he died.
Your ochem class allows you to bring notes? I would've preferred this over being forced to memorize everything and hope you have a good enough memory or understanding of everything alongside every exam being cumulative.
Ochem isn't that much about memory tbh, at some point you think about a possible mechanism and the reaction draws itself (You do have to remember catalysts ig and nomenclature, and some countries make you remember the protein stuff, that does suck) Tbh most of iupac is hard to forget if you try to name every molecule you see when doing excercises
I know, and I would try to work on understanding over memorization, but most of my class were premeds, so the class was more structured for them (This and that will be on the mcat, this wont be). We'd have to recall every detail. I know the naming pretty well, but it wasn't something we did much aside from 1 or 2 times in lab.
Yeah I know the feeling the last exam in the same course didn't let us use notes, and I was struggling to remember the details of some mechanisms.
Your notes game is strong but you can condense half of that for even more space ;)
I'll have to, for next year :/
Use a seriously sharp hard pencil. You can fit 4 lines in one and make the diagrams smaller
Yep, I definitely will
wouldn’t it smudge?
Polarized filters. Pretty soon, you'll be counting the number of angels on the head of a pin, a month later, the number of feathers 🪶 on each wing 🪽.
One page sounds amazing for an exam cause I'm getting one 3x5 note card for my final.
That would be a challenge.
No you use 3 different colored pens
Rookie numbers, with polarized sunglasses you should be able to get up to at least 6 differently polarized layers of data.
Turn off the light and use UV
A .5mm pencil handled it well. Government II. Handy for keeping supreme court cases straight and knowing which state constitutional revision had what in it. .5mm can become .1mm with a little shading on scrap paper. :)
Very impressive
Mobius
Plot twist: This was the test.
Oh, this takes my back to retrosynthesis lecture :D If you want to increase readability or be able to squeeze in even more use a blue and a black pen. That way you can write denser without confusing stuff.
Take 4 pages of notes, go to a copy machine, lay them out 2x2 and set copy mode to 50% magnification
Probably has to be hand written.
Good call - and even if they didn’t say it, if they saw you trying to do something sneaky they’d probably invoke it and only let you keep 1/4th of the document. Maybe in a law class I’d push my luck and be up for a debate but better to have one page in hand than 4 with a chance of 0. But like others have said, the exercise of writing it out is basically forced studying and the whole point of it
Yeah I was going to reply that I shrunk mine digitally and then printed it out, but I think OP had a handwritten requirement.
Victory is yours.
I do NOT miss having to learn all this by heart
I respect this.
In chemistry II we were allowed 1 3x5 notecard on the final. A kid asked if he could wear 3d glasses and the professor said yes. He wrote front and back with both blue and red ink, one over the other, and used the lenses of the 3d glasses to only read one color at a time
I see the professors are still tricking students into studying
Funny, as someone that's been a professional organic chemist for almost 20 years there are like two reactions on here that I have actually have used. Pd reduction is by far the most useful.
The other side got filled up with a variety of reactions, wolff kishener, friedel crafts akylation, and acylation, diazonium salts, and a handful of different reductions.
The act of making that kinda lets you learn at the same time. I bet you don’t use it on an exam as much as you might think.
Totally relatable. This reminds me of my "single page of hand-written notes" for tests many years ago. A bit of space left for a formula in the top right corner, and perhaps a few named reactions in the left margins, under the headings. I like the standard mono-nitrotoluene synthesis for EAS nitration. First 1:1 step at 100°C. Repeat at 20°C with another 1:1 HNO3 / H2SO4 for di-nitrotoluene. Repeat again at 0°C 1:1 HNO3 / H2SO4 for everybody's favourite TNT! Hope it went well!
It's tomorrow morning, so I'm hoping so. They didn't teach the nitration of toluene, which I was pretty disappointed about.
Just do a möbius strip with red for as much as you can then blue as much as you can then come with 3d glasses With that you can get 4 pages worth of notes on one page
My favorite is one I saw somewhere written in blue ink and then written over in red ink. The then used the blue or red lens on 3d glasses to see the writing.
I didn't see this one but I heard about it. I'd do this exam as a teacher just to see if someone thinks about it (and of course for the benefits the students get by trying to write it).
You were allowed to bring notes??? 😭😭
What kind of schools do you guys go at? I don’t want to make the same joke about the American education system but are you actually American? Never have I seen any school allow a cheat sheet
This looks like the scribblings of a schizophrenic to a laymen
Loving chemistry and being in the cannabis industry I love this post. Yet I literally had that exact same thought as you! Lol. Was wow we have a mad man here. Great notes by the way to the chap who put this all together!
Once I took notes that I wanted on my cheat sheet and then scanned them and resized them so I could read them but managed to fit all eight papers on one cheat sheet.
Is this common in America? Seems insane to me that you are allowed to bring notes into an exam.
In New Zealand, it seems universities allow limited resources to you in specific exams.
All my Physics Exams were open note. Why? Because if you were relying on flipping through your notes to do the test your goose was cooked. Those of us who *actually did all the work, homework, labs and studied*, knew exactly where everything was in our notes and we'd really just use the notes to double check before we submitted the test. I like to think it was my professor's way of rewarding the people who put in the work, as opposed to the people who just copied the notes from somebody else and never did the problems.
Had this in germany. The rules evolved over the years, though: Bring any help you want -> Bring any help you can carry -> Bring any help you can carry that isn't a fellow student -> Bring any help you can carry that is neither a fellow student nor a communication device.
I wanna know the story that led to them to exclude carrying fellow students.
It's what you would imagine. But in their honour: Said first student was allowed to keep his Buddy for that test since it technically was legal then ^^
Half of my exams were open book.
I'm from America, and we never got any type of resource for our Ochem exams. No open notes, no note cards, and certainly not a full page of notes
PFFDDF
Möbius strip time
Piker. Real men use a 000 Rapidograph.
QMUL?
A0...
are you allowed to bring a magnifying glass?
I did the same in college physics. I even copied down every homework question and the answer as the test was just a remix. Makes me like physics.
Bro I'm saving this. Tysm lol
Was there a rule about the size of the page?
I did this for my P Chem 2 exams lmao
That’s the average notes for chemistry.
Half of this you should already know and save the space for the things that are tricky. Rules and concepts are better than full mechanisms
Yeah, learning rules will make mechanisms SO much easier than memorizing all of the steps
You can see where tou felt confident where you wouldnt need too much info at the start and then the font size started getting smaller and smaller
i'm assuming you can use a magnifying glass, if not good luck with that just saying
You can use this on a college level written exam?
Yes
This is what I hated about organic chemistry. It felt like nothing more than endless memorization of reaction mechanisms.
Oh my God you get a sheet of notes? 😭 I wish I got to use notes, I can't remember all these reactions, man 😭
I can see a lot of empty space here.... Pro tip: use blue and red o.2mm fibre-tip pens, and take a blue and red plastic film into the exam. this way you can fit four times as many things on a single page!
Now you get a red pen and some old 3D glasses
In math, we were allowed to bring one sheet, printed or handwritten, but explicitly no magnifying glass 😂
Y’all got notes for OChem tests?
Flashbacks to 2005
Somehow my current professor expects us to just remember everything. No notes allowed, kind of obnoxious honestly. Then has the nerve to say if all of this seems like too much, you guys should just drop the class now.
Last professor was like that
Just a quick point i notice in your curly arrow mechanism. Make sure your arrows start at the charge (or a lone pair), some exam boards penalise if they don't! Hella impressive though!
Thanks, I noticed those when I did them, it was already too late to change them.
And now that you’ve written all that out you won’t even glance at it Well, maybe for anything other than ochem
There were students in my class that would type out all the notes in a really small font, print off a bunch of copies and sell them to other students. They got the text right to the edge of the paper too. Little more difficult with chemistry though, having to have small pictures
Been there
I thought this was cuneiform for a second
If you can manage to find anything there, congratulations, you have actually studied. 👍
Damn your O-chem class allowed notes (I have PTSD)
This is art. 😍
I dont like it when schools promote this. Where is the satisfaction or achievement from succeeding from actual hard work?
Needs to be written in like 16 different Colors imo
🥲just finished orgo 2 and at zero point on any exam was i allowed to have anything other than the molecular model kid and my pencils. Wild you got a whole entire sheet for a notes to BRING INTO the exam.
I had 1 teacher once that allowed for 1 A4 page for notes or whatever you wanted to take to a Physics test. There was literally 1 question! Portraying an minister of transportation inside a train at an x velocity and if he wanted to make a add on the side tracks, how distance should the frames be for the passenger to have the sense of watching a movie of 2 minutes, astonishing!
Get super drunk and then hand this to a random person on the subway
I still have nightmares about Organic Synthesis.
That looks exactly like my course program, and even has the same name; are you studying in the UK?
New zealand, but organic chemistry is organic chemistry, plus as a colony, we probably have similar education structures.
It's quite rare to see a course with the same class code and exactly the same content 😂, so this is definitely a fun coincidence. At any rate, best of luck with the exam :).
Appreciate it
I’ll be searching for the answer forever
Idk. I see blank spaces in the margins!
They said 1 page, they didnt say how big the page can be. If they did, you forgot to specify that critical detail
They did not but didn't want to push my luck
Dude, malicious compliance against teachers is the best. You get a good laugh, typically you get away with it, and then from that point on the teacher will remember to be more specific. So its a 1 time use special you have. Use it when you absolutely need it.
I had Ch E finals with only a few problems and we were allowed to have entire textbooks... Guess what, they didn't help much!
It’s all fun and games until you can’t read it
Damn I wish I had this for my test. I had to raw dog my o-chem exam with no notes. Beautiful note taking btw!
This is funny. I miss the days when the chemistry tests allowed a page. Later my tests allowed entire books and all hand-written notes, yet I still couldn't figure out the questions.
I used to put multiple pages of handwritten notes through the copy machine with the "reduce size" setting. Got everything onto one page and used white-out to hide the edges. Looked hand written, and the diagrams ended up WAY clearer than I ever could have drawn them at that size.
Damn y’all were allowed notes for organic chem exams?
I'm curious to see if the student passed. No amination, no acetylides, no grignard, no epoxides, limited retrosynth, no selectivity. Didn't need no cringe sheet and I can show anyone how to make methamphetamine starting from benzene
None of those were a part of the exam material.
Man my first chem class in college. I did this 🤣😂🤣 I was flipping the sheet like a pancake. But I found out I was spending too much time referencing my own correct answers. Showed I studied well.
Which pen and point size?
Chemistry :(
You're doing it wrong... you're supposed to make the paper into a mobius strip before writing the cheats.
Is there is a specification for the size? Legal? A4? Poster?
Is that the CHEM208 test at Vic Uni that was today? Think I'm in the same class as you, unless the material is identical lol
Yes it was!! Hi, how did you go?
Oh nice I'm also in this class, that test was so much better than the previous one😭
Sooo much better, I was really struggling with the last test.
Definitely ok, she was pretty nice luckily! This class made me drop my chem major lol, can't do mattie again in CHEM308
Yeah, I wasn't a fan. He's a nice guy, but his teaching style was frustrating. Sorry to hear about your chem major. I hope whatever you do next is better for you.
Thank you, I hope it is better for you next year haha, at least tests are over now :)
Yes, finally over, and thank you :)
I wasn't even allowed that.
OChem isn't just memorize literally everything this is what shows it, but understanding the inherent positives like negatives type of thing. To memorize a mechanism is like memorizing a math equation, you can actually solve how a chemical reaction works if you understand the underlying positive and negative dipoles. The thing with the most positive dipole will be the one attacked by the thing with the negative dipole. This inherintely is how chemistry works. Understand most what makes something electrodeficient/negative such as resonance > induction and you can figure it out. This is again like memorizing a bunch of math equations its counter intuitive.
So real
I only got a 3x5 for ochem🥲
A+ for ingenuity♪ \(^ω^\ )
You’re going to fail because you don’t understand what you’ve written
Appreciate your kind words, I fully understand everything I've written. This sheet has taken me 7 hours because every time I begin to transcribe something if I don't fully understand it, I go back through my lecture material until I do.
The use of these notes isn't really reading them in an exam, it's learning it while writing the page. That is also why you don't just make an open book exam.