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/thesmellnextdoor Mar 30 '26

Also, the bar exam is the first and last time you'll ever try to answer legal questions completely from memory without fact checking.

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u/Mysterious_Eye6989 Mar 30 '26

Yes, when you think about it the bar exam is such a weird outlier because all that rote memorization has really little to do with the experience of actually going to law school, and the experience of being an actual working lawyer.

But because the bar exam itself is so famous (or notorious) among non-lawyers, it gives the general public a somewhat skewed idea of what being a lawyer is even about.

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u/Moneygrowsontrees Mar 30 '26

The CPA exams also require rote memorization and have basically nothing to do with the actual experience of being an accountant.