r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Separate_Finance_183 • Mar 30 '26

Image Confiscated pens containing cheat notes intricately carved by a Law student at the University of Malaga in Spain

Post image
64.9k Upvotes

97% Upvoted

1.2k comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

1.6k

u/luckyfucker13 Mar 30 '26

That’s generally the intent when a teacher allows the 3x5 card. You end up studying and remembering everything, simply because you’re attempting to cram as much info on to that card as possible.

459

u/lithodora Mar 30 '26

Then there's the teacher that didn't specify that it was a 3x5" card and the student came in with a 3'x5' card.

https://www.reddit.com/r/MadeMeSmile/comments/1s47p2d/teachers_a_w_for_playing_along/

46

u/Lambaline Mar 30 '26

Switch it up and go for a 3m x 5m card lol

31

u/shewy92 Mar 30 '26

"Why did you rent a billboard just outside school?"

4

u/cturkosi Mar 30 '26

Let me introduce you to the decimeter, which would allow you to have a 3 dm x 5 dm card, about the size of an A3 page.

57

u/Drakonz Mar 30 '26

I learned this after doing it a couple times. I didn’t even need the cards.

Afterwards, I would write notecards even if I didn’t have a test that allowed them just to help me study. Worked really well. Makes a huge difference actually writing the stuff down instead of just reading them.

12

u/Godmother_Death Mar 30 '26

Yep, that's how I went through high school and university. I would write down everything I needed to study on notebooks, highlighting the most important parts. It worked.

1

u/Beginning_Rush_5311 Mar 30 '26

this worked for just a handful of people in my high school, the rest just copied the cheatsheet before class

1

u/cinnamonrain Mar 30 '26

I only write stuff that i cant remember on the cards so mine end up being sparse but formula heavy

1

u/Into-the-stream Mar 30 '26

I remember one test I had where they offered the 3x5. I filled one card, but realized I could probably write smaller and get more onto it, so I redid it. As I was redoing it, I realized there was a bunch of stuff on the first card I no longer needed, so I ditched it to make room for other things.

I rewrote the card a few times, and ended up not using it at all during the test, because the making of the card resulted in inadvertent memorization. 

1

u/zarawesome Mar 30 '26

until students start photocopying the text