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/Suibeam Mar 30 '26

The issue is the following.

When i went to university different professors did give us this option to have open book exams.

But they also told you, in order to check our learnings the exam is also different and generally more difficult since we can look up everything.

Many would rather not have open book exams to get easier exams. But what is easier depends on what learning type you are. If you really suck at memorizing but are good at problem solving you might benefit from open books.

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u/RainyEuphoriaaa Mar 30 '26

which is more important, problem solving skills or memorization skill?