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At university one of the exams allowed a single sheet of handwritten paper to be brought in. People got real damn creative in squeezing as much information they could on it, completely oblivious to the fact they actually learned the subject matter while preparing their "cheat sheet".

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That does not match my experience. The primary benefit of these papers is that you can look up the difficult to remember stuff during the exam (mostly formulas and precise definitions in my case).

But you get to do that in real life too.

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