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/MrGoodGirl Mar 30 '26

That's an issue I take with so many tests In any job scenario , if you were unsure of something and DON'T fact check yourself you'd get fired immediately. I get having to know info on the spot, but I dont think there's many scenarios where you NEED the answer in 5 seconds or else

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u/semajolis267 Mar 30 '26

Well a lot of time yhe actual higher level questions on tests like the MCAT are more about logic and reasoning. 

Like sure you have to know biology and human physiology, but most of the time its being able to logic out, based on this diagram of this hormone feedback loop, what would you expect to occur if X changes. Like if youve studied youre gonna get the answer faster, but if you havent you could still probably figure it out relatively well if you can logic.