<p>Do people always sit in the same spot as they sat in the first day? Or do they normally switch around, and you could find someone sitting in your previous spot?</p>
<p>Is it legal to ask upperclassmen for their past exams to study from?</p>
<p>Lol these are kind of random unrelated questions but I've always wondered...</p>
<p>I do and some professors tend to change exams regularly, so studying past ones really wouldn’t help much.</p>
<p>Not really, people move around quite a bit. When I step into the lecture hall, the first thing I do is move my eyes around like a night owl and look for the people in my dorm, or at least people I know. If a hot chick is sitting in the row in front of me, that would be icing on the cake =)</p>
<p>Your second ?, yes, it would be helpful and not consider cheating. Like icedragon said, most profs now change the exams frequently, but at least you get to know the format and the difficulty to expect, so why not?</p>
<p>I usually sit in the same area of a lecture hall every day, but not necessarily the same spot. As for old exams, I would definitely ask for them if they are available. Some professors I’ve had actually give out their old exams as study aids for the midterm/final. While the questions aren’t likely to be the same, of course, it’s helpful to familiarize yourself with the format and the types of things you will be asked.</p>
<p>I have found that old exams are remarkably similar to actual exams. Not exactly the same, but the questions tend to have the same structure, length, and difficulty.</p>
<p>Like someone else said, I have had professors hand out old exams for study material.</p>
<p>Generally I get to class early when there aren’t that many people there, so in that case it wouldn’t make a lot of sense to sit by somebody you don’t know, so I sit in the same place I usually do. If the class is a little fuller however, I take a note from Sparkyboy’s playbook and sit near a hot girl ;)</p>