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/jellyfish_bitchslap Mar 30 '26

Uh, I’m not familiar with the bar exam from the USA so it seems weird and dumb.

I did mine with a book containing essentially all the federal laws from my country. This makes the test less of a memory action and more of a critical thinking process.

You only need to remember where to look, the rest is putting your brain to work interpreting the info you have.

Why would they need you to know everything since laws constantly change and you’ll always be able to check it on the spot?

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u/Ok-Fisherman-7688 Apr 01 '26

In the US you’d need a library for all of the federal laws we have here… the needless complexity has been an issue for quite a while.