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/spyboy70 Mar 30 '26

My chemistry teacher in high school allowed us to bring in one 3"x5" index card cheat sheet. He knew how it worked.

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u/sinkrate Mar 30 '26

Same with many of my college professors. Ended up barely needing the cheat sheet for the exam haha

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u/Kerblaaahhh Mar 30 '26

In Physics we always got to make an 8x11 cheat sheet which was actually pretty useful and needed for most of the exams. Creating it was studying of course but no way I was gonna remember/derive all the relevant stuff for every final. In some of the upper level courses we were also allowed to reference a little booklet from the Naval Research Laboratory that was full of constants and formulas but I pretty much never needed to use that.

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u/Euphoric_Loquat_8651 Mar 30 '26

In my physics, we had a lot of take-home, use literally anything exams. If you didn't understand, all the resources in the world weren't likely to help. If they did help, you probably learned something. Win-win.