Wall of Mouths

i wouldnt call it cheating. If you had a copy of the exam paper before the exam then that would be cheating. These notes you’ve got (which your teacher pointed you towards) are basically another set of notes a teacher would give you. Just see the writer of these notes as another teacher.

no your not cheating

my college lectures never tell us to write notes and hand us sheets of paper with printed notes on later

the exam boards cant control what you read outside of the exam its none of their concern

as long as you dont bring the notes in with you

It’s not cheating, no. But:

Tubthumper wrote:

You are only cheating yourself.
If you’re depending on these notes, and solely these notes to get you through it then I think you need some extra help.

…is absolutely spot on. If you’re reading the notes, and actively thinking ‘ah, yeah, that’s when my teacher was talking about such-and-such’, and ‘that relates back to the whole thing with xyz’ then you know you’re on to a winner. But if you’re reading them and just thinking ‘oh, ok’, then, as Tubthumper says, you’re just cheating yourself.

Yes, yes you are. Cease and desist!

It’s not really cheating but It’s a bad idea to be printing notes off the internet anyway. Sounds like your teacher is a bit of a cop-out and doesn’t want to actually teach you. It’s ok to use a few notes from other sources but by making your own notes you remember the material better. And as Tubthumper and Misanthropologist said; you’re only cheating yourself by not really understanding it.

You remember things better when they are your own words and when you write them out. It’s because your mind remembers how your hand moves to write them and the characters are stored as mental images and the words and so on so it becomes easier to remember.