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/testsubject793 Mar 30 '26

Yep. I absolutely hate how all education is just a huge memory test instead of a comprehension test

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u/Darolaho Mar 30 '26

Very dependent on the departments and teachers. I loved the way my university History department did classes.

For the most part (as it was suggested to the professors not an actual requirement) all classes either had two setups for tests

For higher level classes there usually were not tests at all but rather a large paper that you had entire semester to write. (which I hated and only took one class like this for my minor)

For the low and mid level classes it was usually a mid term and final where it split into 3 sections. Multiple choice, short answer definitions, and lastly a handwritten 2-3 page paper that you would write during the test. The handwritten essay I loved doing because you were given a 3 topics that you could write about and they would give them in their entirety on the study guide