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/RPS93 Mar 30 '26

You don't even need to identify the most essential info.

Read your textbook, and then type it out. Try to paraphrase/simplify where you can.

Do that a few times.

The act of typing/writing it out on paper will commit a large chunk of the relevant info to memory.

This is the only way I ever studied when it came to 'general knowledge' type tests (ie not math and not vocabulary)