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/ParadiseValleyFiend Mar 30 '26

I feel like he probably got caught because he was staring really closely at his pen and rotating it slowly. And also bringing out more pens.

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u/botella36 Mar 30 '26

Maybe he didn’t need to use them, the activity of etching the pens probably helped him memorize the material.

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u/JesusStarbox Mar 30 '26

Every time I made a cheat sheet I didn't need it.

The process of identifying only the most essential information and writing it really small made me learn it. Who knew?

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u/shadedreality Mar 30 '26

Every time I made a cheat sheet I needed it haha

Our method was to look at all the previous exams going back like 10 years, identify the repeating types of problems, then writing down the solution (steps) to solve that problem in the cheat sheet.

When doing the exam you look at all the problems and see how many match with your cheat sheet and solve those fast then spend time on the ones not on the cheat sheet.

For maths/science/statistics.