Cheat sheets

Until further notice, quizzes and midterms (but not the final) will have the following policy pertaining to a ``cheat sheet'' to be brought with you into the test.

1. Any student may submit a ``cheat sheet'' by 8am the weekday preceding a test. The regulations concerning this sheet are given in the ``Writing a cheat sheet'' section below.

2. I will post all accepted cheat sheets on the Web by the evening preceding the test. If you choose to bring a cheat sheet to the test, you must select one from those posted on the Web page. (If you submitted a cheat sheet, you can still choose somebody else's.)

3. You must not modify this sheet, by computer or by hand, except that you must write your own name on the sheet. You may not write anything else on the sheet, before, during, or after the test! Anything written on the sheet can result in a 0 on the test in question.

4. When you complete your test solutions, you will give both your test sheet and your cheat sheet to me. Both will have your name on it. I will return the sheet to you with your test.

Writing a cheat sheet

If you write a sheet, you must meet all of the below guidelines to the letter. Any deviations can result in my refusal of the sheet.

• Submit the sheet by attaching it to an e-mail and sending it to me. I must receive it by 8am the weekday preceding the test.

• If I cannot open the cheat sheet using Microsoft Word 2002, it will not be accepted.

• The first line of your sheet must contain the following and nothing else.

  Author Name's sheet; Name: _________________________

  In place of ``Author Name,'' write your own first and last names. (List all authors' names. If there are more than two authors, last names only is fine.) Leave the Name blank empty so that users of the sheet may write their name there.

• The sheet must fit onto a single-sided 8.5x11" page. All margins must be at least 0.5" of completely white space.

• The accepted fonts are Times New Roman, 10 pt or larger, and Courier, 10 pt or larger.

• All other layout issues are entirely under your own control.

• The sheet should ``make sense'' to a reader with no prior training on its use. That is, I may refuse a sheet on the grounds that it includes information that is too cryptic to be useful to others.

• If your sheet is not posted on the Web page by the evening before the test, it is not an accepted submission, and you may not use it. When I have a reason to refuse a submission, I will usually tell you exactly what is wrong with it.

• After the test, I will count how many people opted for your sheet and post that number on the Web page.