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my physics profs hated memorization, and gave us extensive formula sheets for exams, plus let us bring a sheet with whatever we wanted on it
I had some professors that only implemented limits on cheat sheets because they noticed an adverse effect when students would bring more than they could reasonably use for a test and run out of time.
The act of making a good cheat sheet also has the effect of not needing that cheat sheet much, its like tricking students into studying things for understanding rather than forcing memorization.
I made every cheat sheet in like 10 minutes by screenshotting each chapter summary and any equations I saw.
in Thermo, it was just the scaled images of each solution to every homework we did, and then I could copy that work while substituting the question's values to get an A-