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A classic slacker technique is just reading through to see if any later questions have answers/hints for the earlier ones.
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Oh yeah, always give the whole thing a read through first, finish early and change a few if other stuff comes up, and mostly they'll be marking non multiple choice stuff on certain points if it's English or something, so answer from a few points of view and you'll get something right and it'll all add up. Multiple choice is ignore the stupid one, ignore the less stupid one, pick between the other two based on knowledge, guesswork, other questions or weather.
snottyotter
Cramming is also cheating. I got a phone call walking me up about 15 minutes before my maths AS level, not because I was up all night cheating either. The teacher who put me down a set didn't seem impressed when I blagged a B with zero effort or revision on that and they thought I'd get an D or E. A lot of tests are relatively easy to pass without knowing all the things if you understand how the tests work, bit of multiple choice and covering all the bases on the other bits and you're sorted to a degree of sorted for a slacker. You'd probably have to be actually smart or try hard or both to get top marks though. I'm pretty sure my "methods" would've failed me if I'd bothered to try further education, but education never seemed as interesting as learning to me, or getting wreaked.
All of that is no help however to all the kids currently getting fucked over though.