I've heard of SpongeBob Square Pants, but I guess we now have Karnataka Box Head. Indian students wear boxes on their heads during exam to prevent cheating By Jessie Yeung, CNN Updated 1:34 AM EDT, Mon October 21, 2019 (CNN)A school in India has apologized after photos emerged of students wearing cardboard boxes on their heads during an exam to discourage cheating. The Bhagat Pre-University College in Haveri, in India's southwestern Karnataka state, implemented a trial run of the new measure last Wednesday, according to school management head M.B. Sateesh. A staff member photographed the students sitting in neat rows, their heads obscured by cardboard boxes.
Evidently there is a shortage of paper sacks.. Probably because they are all used for sexual encounters...
Equal opportunity box helmets. Nobody can tell if you're black, white, female, male. Coming to a California public school near you!
I remember going back to my school days we would make these tiny little cheat sheets and then I figured out that by the time I was done making the tiny little cheat sheet I had memorized all the answers.
When I was in college I took copious notes even though I rarely reread them because I found the act of writing the information down put it into my head much more effectively than merely listening
That about sums it up. Most of knowledge is just retention. Remembering what you read, heard or learned. The TV game show Jeopardy is a perfect example of this. I hear people saying how smart some of the contestants are when in reality they only remembered authors of books, capitals of countries, dates of events, leaders of countries and so on. Steven Covey's 7 Habits of Highly Effective People has a section that states "If you do something 25 times it becomes automatic." An example would be if you said the states and their capitals 25 times you would always know them.
agree, I have above average retention for useless facts, but I still suck at jeopardy, which I watch pretty regular, its not that my right answers are the problem, its shouting out the wrong ones that would kill my score, but my wife doesn't count wrong answers as a negative I'd probably be at -2800 in the first 5 minutes if we were keeping score. I remember my senior year of high school I had to get like an 85 or higher on the finals to pass my anatomy class to graduate (back then we only needed like 19 or 20 credits so seniors mostly took half days. I studied like a beast the night before the finals, finished the test first and walked out with a 97 or something in a class that I was getting a low C in all year. The fact that I aced the test ticked my teacher off more than anything because it confirmed that I was just a slacker all year. <duh,, I knew that!
