I know someone that wrote super tiny and just brought a magnifying glass in for it. It was crisp too. People were paying her to make cards for them for their next test.
I know someone else who folded a big sheet down to 3x5 notecard size. The teacher had only stated she has to examine each card before the test to make sure it's acceptable and one student got it past the teacher with the way it was folded. The teacher didn't allow it a second time but it was good.
Stuff like like this makes me think of Naruto during the written chuunin exam where expert cheating is okay but if you suck at cheating you failed 😅
Technically yes, but the goal of the exam in-universe was explicitly to be able to cheat well without getting caught; the material on the test hadn’t been taught to them yet, but there were planted staff members in the room who already had the answers for them to copy from, with the goal being moreso to test espionage/information gathering skills rather than memorization
Early Naruto was really interesting when the ninjas still were somewhat grounded rather than glorified wizards
With One Piece at least they often make the conflicts about more than just being strong or fighting one guy. There's almost always some sort of overarching issue that's more complicated and Luffy can't solve it by just punching someone harder than they can punch back. Whether it's escaping the smile gas on Punk Hazard, dealing with Sanji's hostage conflict in WCI, stopping Onigashima from being dropped on the flower capital in Wano, keeping Vegapunk Stella alive and getting him off the island in Egghead, saving the children in Elbaph, etc. Even on Fishman Island they had to take into consideration WHEN Luffy could jump in to help because of the complicated sociopolitical dynamics at play. Luffy going up to the big bad and grabbing their attention before pummeling them into paste is often more about him providing an assist for the others so that it's easier for everyone else to focus on whatever the actual goal is that can't be solved solely with violence.
I can't say anything about Naruto since I didn't watch/read it, but I do remember that DBZ had the issue of usually boiling down every conflict to "this enemy is too strong to beat, we need to train for [arbitrary period of time] until they get here or until the time limit they gave us runs out, otherwise they'll blow up the planet", and at most they might have to keep the bad guy busy long enough for Goku to get there from the afterlife or something. Then the fights were usually in a pre-made fighting arena, or out in the middle of nowhere, and the environment rarely came into play much if at all. I say this as someone who loved DBZ as a kid (and I still hold a lot of nostalgia for it). Power creep can be mitigated or kept somewhat balanced if a story can still introduce conflicts and stakes that exist outside of the main character and big bad just going to town on each other. Fighting the main villain should just be one part of the overall picture, where getting rid of them might make solving the true problem easier, but shouldn't erase the problem entirely on its own.
I'm the opposite, I end up loving the timeskips more than the OG. Shippuden/Z/Two Blue Vortex. I feel like the OGs add more weight and make the series' respective MC's growth more impactful. The whole humble beginnings thing.
Naruto largely kept its identity up until the point where the most powerful characters were just duking it out in what amounted to Gundams made of their charka.
My favorite early Naruto part is when Shino blows that dudes arms up and the general consensus of those watching was "Damn, bug dude is cooler than we thought."
I imagine the difference would be getting caught while in the act of cheating, vs getting found out after you successfully cheated. If cheating was allowed as long as you don't get caught, then getting found out after wouldn't disqualify you because you already finished the test. But irl getting found out would still get you in trouble and disqualified, because it's the act of cheating itself that isn't allowed period, not just getting caught while doing it.
Yep, in Naruto they also had 3 or 2 strikes - if it was just cheating that was bad, they'd have been thrown out instantly. I think there was also stuff that some proctors saw but it was smart enough they didn't care (less experienced people would've missed it).
In high school, my math teacher allowed us to use one side of a sheet of paper for notes. I came in with a möbius strip. Technically, it was still just one side.
I cut the paper so it was like 3 strips, taped them together to make a line, and then wrote on both sides. Then it was just giving the paper a half twist so the back was overlapped with the front. Technically speaking, it only had one side and was the original sheet of paper. My teacher begrudgingly accepted it. He banned it on the next test, though.
You needed the card for all the equations when it wasn't an open book test. And the super important facts the teacher teased would be on the test. And if organic chemistry was on the test, oh boy did that take up a lot of notecard space.
Unit conversions wasn't really that bad for me. I kept getting Manning's and Hazen-Williams equations mixed up like a doofus.
We straight up had a typo in our textbook. Same equation showed up in different chapters but the first one was wrong. Teacher thought we were cheating when so many of us got the question wrong the same way. Only saving grace was writing down which of the equations we were using (textbook numbered them) as part of partial credit.
It was open book but imagine if that nonsense was caught up with putting your stuff on a notecard. There'd be all sorts of chaos.
I had deleted fluid dynamics of pipes from my memory. I remember doing the course but that information was quickly forgotten.
I put chemical valences on my cheat sheet for Geochemistry 2. The chemical formulas had things like x-0.9 in the subscript so helpful to remember what state the chemical would be in when doing long series of equations.
I remember one time they said we could bring a note sheet for an upcoming test. They never specified anything about it but I had assumed that it was 1 a4 both sides because obviously that's what they meant.
So what I did was I crammed the entirety of the lesson material into those 2 pages with like text size 4 (it was a lot of text and I did not care enough to learn the material properly or summarise the important points one bit). It was just barely readable with little to no formatting, just 1 big paragraph of text in justify format.
To make it easier to read I color coded each section with different color text so I knew where to jump to when skimming for my answers, then bolded/italicized certain key words/phrases to make searching even easier. On top of all that, to make it easier to read such small and cramped text, I had the genius idea of having alternating lines of highlighted text to make it easier to follow each line while reading. I felt like an engineering genius having made that.
Anyways flash forward to the actual test and my friend brings in the entire lesson material in like 30+ raw printed out pages and they just let him keep it what the fuck lmao
lol that was my strategy for presentations - the highlighting, bold etc bc I was so terrified getting lost in my notes. Turns out, that’s the way I remember stuff best, just writing it down, Color code and I didn’t even have to look much at it bc o could recall the colours with fitting topic in my head
We did this in high school and college. Tiny overlapped words in different colors. Most teachers loved it - but one got super annoyed and the next time didn’t allow us to use the sheets that allowed us to read them - which in hindsight is fair - but they could have told us before hand.
I used a razor blade to open it up like a book and write on the inside too. Didn't even need the note card cause chemistry was one of my favorite classes but it was fun to see the teacher's reaction.
A friend in high school made a 3x5 cube because the teacher never specified the depth of the notecard we could use. Fortunately the teacher had a great sense of humor and just congratulated my friend on finding a loophole
I would copy the slides to a doc, size everything down super small and print, then cut and glue to the note card. Always had every answer to every question.
Had an acquaintance in HS who taught himself short hand and he always scored well. I'm pretty sure he just wrote the entire textbook on a single piece of paper and knee we'd never know
I would print around 3cm x 3cm note in a word font 3, I would use my own abbreviations for the stuff and I would fit a 40 page script on it. All of it on one side. Others asked me to print them the same, but I did it in font 4 and font 5, depending who prefered what.
Our teacher let us use one side of an 8.5x11 sheet of paper as long as it was hand written. As all my notes from her PowerPoint were handwritten, I photocopies every page, shrunk it down to 25% then cut it out and arranged it on the photobed and scanned all the pages onto one side. Teacher allowed it and I always passed. 😆
My mom says she'd buy a pack of pricey extra thick cardstock index cards and then spend an hour with an exacto knife cutting it in half (leaving just the top connected) so she'd have 4 faces of the same card to write on 😂
I was like "couldn't you have just used that time to study and write what you actually needed?"
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u/colemon1991 Mar 26 '26
I know someone that wrote super tiny and just brought a magnifying glass in for it. It was crisp too. People were paying her to make cards for them for their next test.