Should I make cheat sheets to use in my botany class?

The answer is a big NO, @malibub! If you are to learn something then be honest even if you know others are not. Cheating is corruption.

If you cheat on your studies then you will only be learning cheating your whole life and I think you wouldn't want to be called a 'cheater'. So instead of making cheat sheets, you take note every important term and discussions in your notebook and the most effective way to learn esp. On natural sciences is to never miss a lecture or laboratory session.

That way, you can follow and understand the developments in your experiments and you will be able to put in your mind everything that you have observed. Notes are nothing without solid proof in science. And you know it’s just okay to memorize everything in botany esp.

If your instructor requires a lot of memorization (teaching style varies from teacher to teacher) because you will not be memorizing them all when you are on the real job. So the right thing to do @malibub is act as a student – not a cheater.

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