How to Make your Professor Believe you Read the Book

Ever taken a really boring class? Maybe you thought that a night class wouldn't really be that bad. Guess again! I am going to show you some techniques to fool your professor into believing you did the reading when you really were watching a movie or hanging out with friends.

Difficulty: Moderate

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• The book or article
• Yourself

1. Open the book, read the title of the chapters, read 1 or 2 random paragraphs that you might be able to quote from just in case your knowledge is questioned.

2. When you get to class, don't speak up first but listen to what others are saying for a few minutes. analyze what is being said and try to use that information to bring up questions that might actually give you more insight on the reading. Make sure to make plenty of generalized comments so that your professor thinks you are part of the conversation. This will also keep you from being picked on for being quiet. Also keep eye contact with your professor while she/he is talking.

3. Some classes this will not work for like science classes. This works well for a discussion type history or philosophy class. In the end you will learn a lot from the discussions while having to very little of the reading.

4. If you do not do the readings you will need to pay attention in class. So there is a trade off for being lazy on the readings. The final step to keep the professor on his/her toes will be to ask questions after class. Try to reintegrate the information you heard in class.

Tips & Warnings

• Aggressive is what will keep the professor from calling on you.
• If your too silent the professor will probably call on you. Speak up!

[Elizabethknows]

on 5/16/2008 Yeah this is a funny one. I think these are some good tips too.

[revisitingnixon]

on 5/16/2008 Okay, I think I know some of my buddies who have done this in college. Pretty funny article :)