How to pass exams, as told by a university lecturer

[torkell]

How to pass exams, as told by a university lecturer:

Answer question 1 by writing out everything you know.

Answer all other questions by writing "See question 1".

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[torkell]

Des Watson (Languages and Compilers).

There is a catch to this: usually you only have an hour and a half (not enough time to write out everything), and also they like to set evil questions like "Is X true?", to which "Yes, no" is not a vaild answer.