I strongly discourage cheating not because of conscious
issue.
First, how far can cheating take you? First or
second upper? perhaps in your dreams. There are tons of information
that you need for a subject, how much can you put inside that piece
of paper? And even if you got a lot of small pieces, how do you
know where to find that information you need urgently? Also, where
are you going to find the time needed to search through your slips
of paper to get the information? For me, I really had no time to
get information by cheating. I rely mainly on my memory and the
practice questions that I did before the exams.
Secondly, if you are cheating, it simply means that you do not have
sufficient knowledge on that particular subject. Example, for
engineering course, cheating means you probably had little
knowledge about the equations that you had wrote down. So
how can you be sure that you are able to apply this equation during
exams? Do you even know when you can apply that equation?
I seriously doubt so. To add on, certain subjects form the
foundation of the knowledge for future subjects. So if you do not
have the knowledge in this subject, how are you able to understand
the next subject?
Thus, conclusion is that cheating will not take you far nor help to
increase your knowledge. Instead of cheating, you should learn
about studying smart. For studying smart,
Understand what the equations mean and how to apply them.
Practising with some problems helped you identify the problems
which you apply these equations. After you did a few problems,
these equations will roughly be register into your head.
then you try questions which use similar equations but with a
twist. Like perhaps you need to find out more information before
applying such equations. After this, you probably will understand
how this equation works and able to apply them with ease
liao.
By then, you should be able to understand much about this equation
and you need only a bit more memory work to remember them. Of
course, the more practice you do, the easier for you to remember
these equations and use them without hesitation or mistake.
