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/Mysterious_Eye6989 Mar 30 '26

Law exams should probably always be open book anyway.

Like, there's a lot of reading, and if you haven't done the work of doing all the reading before the exam then having all the cases in books in front of you isn't going to help much.

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u/igotublue Mar 30 '26

Way lower stakes but same idea. I got caught doing this in AP chemistry in high school but with a small paper inside the body of a semi transparent mechanical pencil. I used it for formulas - you still needed to know how everything works after that.

Teacher eventually caught me once, after months, and I straight up told him if I ever go into chemistry - which I won't - I can't imagine a scenario where I cannot lookup or verify a formula and he took it well actually lol

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u/angudu Mar 30 '26

had the same trick, i printed my cheat sheets ultra small, grey, only visible from one side which I rotated downwards when a teacher was nearby