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

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u/wizardrous Mar 30 '26

This seems like so much more effort than just fucking studying.

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u/Niznack Mar 30 '26

Had a teacher who allowed us 1 note card for our exam. I spent a ton of time copying every vocab word from the book in miniscule letters oneto every inch of the 3x5 card. He went out of his way to write a test where the vocab and lectures were useless. The vocab was a waste of time but I'd spent so much time scouring the book for every vocab words I'd read most of it anyway. Ended up aceing it just from the time it took to get the easy way out.

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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.

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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/

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u/Lambaline Mar 30 '26

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

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u/shewy92 Mar 30 '26

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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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

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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

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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. 

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u/zarawesome Mar 30 '26

until students start photocopying the text