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Originally Posted by godfry n. glad
Heh....I aced a geology midterm because I was trying to skate on it while I gave more attention to my social & cultural anthropology midterm, exactly because I'd asked a friend who'd taken the same geology prof a year before what kind of exams he gave. My friend gave me his graded midterm as an example of the prof's style. So, after spending all night agonizing over a frikkin' take home essay exam for anthro, getting only two hours of sleep before walking into the geology exam...I was pleasantly surprised to find that the example exam my friend had provided was, indeed, the exact same exam as the one I had to take. I aced both exams.
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This sort of thing is very very very widespread in college, because teachers usually change their tests little if any from semester to semester.