Cheat sheet
A cheat sheet also Spicker, dizziness or cheat sheet, is a small piece of paper that is used in a test, exam, query, or a test of the DUT in forbidden way to answer the questions or tasks more efficiently. Recently, technical aids, such as MP3 players are used with dictated texts.
The use of Spickzetteln or similar aids met in the German school and examination law the offense of " embezzlement " and leads discovery during or after an examination to withdraw the fully rendered examination and / or its worst possible rating.
Use of Spickzetteln
Students will be temporarily stopped by teachers to create a learning method cheat sheet to use this as a learning aid. By creating such a slip learning should be favored. However, this must not be used in the performance test.
Cheat sheet be used as everyday reminders, eg for shopping lists, simple cooking recipes, representation of workflows in single steps and so on.
At universities / colleges, there are sometimes allowed to take a piece of paper with self-chosen content with in an exam. It may be, for example, to important but difficult -to-remember formulas or sketches that are needed to solve a complicated task. Without having learned such a cheat sheet are almost useless; it only causes child knowledge is at hand to deal with the task set can be used. Since the amount is limited by the size of paper and the slips often have to be made by hand, this also has the consequence that the students deal with the substance again when assembling the cheat sheet.
Types of Spickzetteln
There are many different types of Spickzetteln that basically all have the purpose to hide the information as well as possible, but on the other hand also makes a good read. The pressure of information in very small variable is the method most often used. Here, the use of computer and (laser) printer readability greatly optimized and made some unusual types of Spickzetteln possible. An extensive collection indicates a cheat sheet exhibition at the vocational college St. Michael, Ahlen ( Westphalia ), which the local chaplain Deacon John Groeger has collected in the years of his activity. The collected " cheat sheet " showing the school in the exhibition trust looks.
A special kind of " Spickzetteln " are the canon tables in the Tridentine Mass of the Catholic Church, which should spare the Priest celebrant at certain times, in certain places of the altar, the circumstantial view of the Missal.
Famous Cheat Sheet
A cheat sheet of the former national soccer goalkeeper Jens Lehmann reached international attention. On June 30, 2006 at the quarter-final match of the Football World Cup 2006 goalkeeper coach Andreas Koepke Lehmann put a handwritten cheat sheet to providing information on protecting the Argentine team. Lehmann saved two penalty kicks against Argentina and was hailed as a match winner. He put the note later, the action A heart for children. At an auction, the company EnBW acquired the note for one million Euros and donated it to the House of History in Bonn.