There Are Many Ways To Cheat At Exams,

but I have to say this is one of the more intricate ways,

photographs Yolanda de Lucchi/Twitter, when I say intricate, how about finely etching the Criminal Procedural Law onto eleven BIC pens! Yolanda de Lucchi, a teacher at the University of Malaga, in Spain, recently shared a couple of very interesting photos on her Twitter account, “The criminal procedural law in BIC pens. What art!” the Spanish teacher tweeted, adding the hashtag “cheat sheets aren’t like they used to be”. She only shared the photos to show other fellow teachers the ingenuity of her students, but the tweet kind of took a life of its own. It received over 280,000 likes on Twitter alone, as well as tens of thousands of retweets, 

one of the people who replied to Yolanda de Lucchi’s viral tweet claimed to know the student who had created and tried to use the BIC pens, “Hello Yolanda. I know the author of that wonderful work perfectly. In fact, he has authorized me, ignoring his name, logically, to show you some more that he still keeps at home,” the Twitter user wrote. “The technique used by the artist, as he himself tells me, was to replace the graphite lead of a mechanical pencil with a needle, which made it super easy for him to etch the pen.” The artistically-etched cheat sheets drew a lot of attention online, with many praising the “artist” for his patience, and others claiming that it would have been easier to study for the exam than to etch all those pens, De Lucchi herself praised her student, even if she did fail him that year, “That could not happen today,” the teacher wrote. “Now students would not make an effort to have such a detailed cheat sheet for an exam. They live at the click of a button, by what happens instantly; that is impossible to see today.” I have to say, I wonder if the student that failed might have better career opportunities as an engraver?