UBC 101 – Introduction to Cheat Sheets

UBC 101 – Introduction to Cheat Sheets will be a pretty new tutorial for most students coming from high schools. There’s not much to it, but there are some things to know.

1. What are “cheat sheets”?

Cheat sheets are usually 1-sided (sometimes 2-sided) pieces of paper where you can put anything you want and take it to your exam. They are usually only used for science classes such as math, biology, physics, etc.

2. Why’s it important to make/have a cheat sheet?

This is pretty basic, but you want a cheat sheet because you’ll forget something from what you studied and some concepts are too complicated to memorize. Let’s face it, those math equations are pretty minor ideas, but they do have the slightest chance of being on the exam, especially those surface area and volume equations. Also, if you know you’re going to copy something word for word, like a list of all the eons and eras, you don’t have to study for that and study more for other concepts.

For many courses, your prof will give you practice exams. In order to take the practice exam as if it was your real exam, you need your cheat sheet. Everything to make it more like realistic right?

But the biggest benefit to making a cheat sheet is that it’s part of your studying. You read from your notes and textbook, copy it down, and you’ve pretty much memorized it in the process. For my first Biology 121 exam, I only looked at my cheat sheet once, and some of my friends never looked at it at all, partly because of the time constraint.