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12 Post author: uzalud 08 November 2011 09:46AM

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Comment author: VincentYu 08 November 2011 11:29:27PM *  3 points [-]

Excellent! I'll do my exams upside down.

ETA: It was a joke - I don't really intend to do this in my future exams.

Comment author: Desrtopa 08 November 2011 11:41:26PM 2 points [-]

I'd recommend testing to see if it helps before trying it in your exams.

Comment author: dlthomas 09 November 2011 12:04:30AM 0 points [-]

It didn't say what it did to completion times. If you reliably finish your exams with much time to spare and make small errors that you have trouble catching simply using the balance of the time to check, this may be a good approach. Otherwise, there are probably better approaches.