Most successfully hacked a non-computer system to your advantage

My study routine during exams involved reading all the reference books (like William Stallings for Operating Systems) to strengthen my concepts and understanding, and read the other “not-so-verbose” textbooks (which were specifically meant for university exams preparation) few days before exams. These textbooks would be sufficient to pass the exam, plus they also would give you a list of probable questions and questions asked in previous exams.

My scores for first 3 semesters were: 72%, 73% and 71% which are quite good for a Mumbai University student.

Eureka Moment
During my fourth semester, I saw one of my professors grading my answer papers, and voila! This is what I discovered:

You need to trick the professor to believe that you know the answer, even if you don’t.
First few sentences contribute more to the score for that answer than the rest of the answer. Hardly anyone reads till the end, but they do see how long your answers are, and that matters.
Verbose answers are for some reason believed to be good answers.
Splitting your answers into bullet points increases the length and presentation of the answer.

Execution
So, I experimented with this in my 4th Semester exams.
With the same study schedule, I just made my answers interesting in the beginning, verbose in the end(of course they included relevant content
too ;-)). Attempted all the questions, and never ever left any question unanswered.
I started employing all the shady tactics of repeating the same points, increasing the word spacing for answers I didn’t have much content for to make them look long and verbose.

My score for next 3 semesters were: 77%(top 5), 76%(2nd in dept.), 80%(1st in dept.)

For the next 2 semesters the answer sheets go to other colleges for correction. In the next semester, I got 77%. But the strange thing was I was the highest scorer among the boys and there were like 10–12 girls who had scored more than me. So I looked at some of the girl’s answer sheets during the mid-term exams, and it was obvious: the problem was with my handwriting and presentation.
For the next semester, I improved my presentation and secured 79% and I think I was 2nd in the department.

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To be honest, the scores never really mattered to me and they still don’t.
And it was really baffling that I could get ~8% increase with simple modifications to how I frame my answers. I only used this hole in the grading process to my benefit, just to show some bigger numbers on my scorecard (and Resume ;-) with some bragging rights) with little effort.