Comments on: Exam Fun

Exam Fun

essexjan — Wed, 03 Mar 2004 08:49:41 -0800

Sorry, you've flunked. This gave me the best laugh I've had all week. I love the way you can tell the teacher marking the paper is getting more and more pissed off by the increasing ferocity of the red pen strokes. Heheheh. Give the kid an A.

By: thomcatspike

thomcatspike — Wed, 03 Mar 2004 09:00:03 -0800

Give the kid an A. Are you nuts!, the kid posted this...maybe a "C" for presentation.

By: carter

carter — Wed, 03 Mar 2004 09:05:48 -0800

Show the kid the door ...

By: spilon

spilon — Wed, 03 Mar 2004 09:08:04 -0800

Intelligence is for old people.

By: mmcg

mmcg — Wed, 03 Mar 2004 09:10:32 -0800

This is infintely more entertaining if you've ever been a TA for a chemistry class. This looks eerily familiar to some papers I have graded in the past. Good post.

By: Seth

Seth — Wed, 03 Mar 2004 09:13:29 -0800

This is good. It really made me laugh. The best one is where it asks for a balanced equation and he put 2+3 = 7. I wanted to be that smart ass on a lot of tests I took growing up, but I lacked the sack to do it. [My cynical inner voice suggests this is all fake, but its funny anyhow].

By: kaibutsu

kaibutsu — Wed, 03 Mar 2004 09:25:07 -0800

I dunno man. I'm a big fan of "shoe + fork = spleen," myself.

By: substrate

substrate — Wed, 03 Mar 2004 09:26:36 -0800

Seth, I don't know that this is fake. I proctored an electronics exam when I was in grad school. These were all fourth year engineering students. This one guy was clueless, nice guy, but I had no idea how he made it to fourth year with a last name that didn't match any of the faculty. I wander around looking menacing to intimidate any potential cheaters and see this guy writing furiously. This surprised me, I had expected that he'd just be staring at the paper so I walked over. He was furiously filling in all the closed shapes in the exam sheet. All the loops in the e's were one colour, the o's were another colour and so on. He scribbled a few amusing comments beneath some of the problems. He did this for the full 3 hours of the exam and handed it in.

By: thomas j wise

thomas j wise — Wed, 03 Mar 2004 09:41:03 -0800

I'm amused, although the instructor may not have been. Incidentally, this is "Rangitoto College" as in "high school," not as in "four-year university."

By: JaxJaggywires

JaxJaggywires — Wed, 03 Mar 2004 09:49:51 -0800

I don't know about others, but the explanation of the shape of the graph just made me laugh out loud. I can just imagine what any of my teachers/professors would have said had I written that on a test.

By: Peter H

Peter H — Wed, 03 Mar 2004 09:51:46 -0800

Penguinol? heh.

By: Cyrano

Cyrano — Wed, 03 Mar 2004 09:55:03 -0800

This reminds me of the time in college when I got tired of writing the same old, standard issue papers for my English professors (after a few years you know what they want to see and can do it in your sleep,) so when I got an assignment to write an opinion paper on the topic of my choice, I wrote it about why I thought it was perfectly acceptable to use the word "motherfucker." Got an A-.

By: CrunchyFrog

CrunchyFrog — Wed, 03 Mar 2004 09:55:59 -0800

substrate: More O-Filling Fun

By: Mick

Mick — Wed, 03 Mar 2004 09:56:28 -0800

In Highschool AP history if I didn't know the answer (history was my strong suite, so this was rare) I'd try to come up with the funniest wrong answer possible that still contained some obscure historic reference. I can remember at least 2 times the teacher gave me extra credit for making him laugh.

By: smcniven

smcniven — Wed, 03 Mar 2004 09:59:34 -0800

I wanted to be that smart ass on a lot of tests I took growing up, but I lacked the sack to do it. A long time ago, some friends and myself took an elective course that we figured would be easy as pie: Introduction to the Bible. By the end of the term, we had attended less than 1/4 of the classes. At the final exam, when faced with the question "Explain the Significance of...", for the "Red Sea" I answered that it was a popular resort for Israelis. Have you ever seen what 6% looks like on a transcript?

By: linux

linux — Wed, 03 Mar 2004 10:04:37 -0800

I remember being a reader for an upper division paleoanthropology course, and the test question concerned describing Homo erectus' physical characteristics, plus any cultural characteristics attributed to them. One answer went something like: In the deepest, darkest region of Africa walked a primitive man. This man, alone and singleminded in his pursuit to find a new way of life, walked doggedly across the vast desert in search of an oasis of technology. I'd've given him credit, except he didn't answer the question. What I did get was an entertaining paragraph by someone who had no clue what the answer was... I gave him no points, but did commend him for making me smile. Were I the professor, I'd probably have given him a point....

By: orange swan

orange swan — Wed, 03 Mar 2004 10:59:14 -0800

A co-worker of mine fondly remembers how as a TA in university she had to grade an assigned paper on woman's suffrage - the student had painstakingly and earnestly described the ways women in which had suffered.

By: taumeson

taumeson — Wed, 03 Mar 2004 10:59:16 -0800

i switched high schools midway through 11th grade. i had a test the last day of school #1, and my teacher asked me beforehand if i even wanted to take it and i said "sure". i told this story to a classmate and he looked at me and uttered three little words: "connect the dots" i looked at him and was like "what?" and he said "make pictures and connect the dots. you'll never be able to do it again on a test. you've got to go for it." i was intrigued. i did it. i hope it blew up the scantron machine. my teacher apparently never mentioned it afterwards. ----------------- also, i hated this post.

By: orange swan

orange swan — Wed, 03 Mar 2004 11:00:31 -0800

"the ways in which women..." Suffering here.

By: SisterHavana

SisterHavana — Wed, 03 Mar 2004 11:10:41 -0800

My favorite part was "Cat. Meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow hiss." I wish I'd had the guts to do stuff like this when I was clueless on a test. ; )

By: FormlessOne

FormlessOne — Wed, 03 Mar 2004 11:15:51 -0800

Feh. The sad thing is, this is a college exam. In other words, this kid wasn't stuck in a high school, being forced to take a test in order to get out of high school - this kid is in college, wasting money and time while being a fool. Give the kid an A? Feh. Give this kid a smack to the head and show him the door. Must be nice to be rich enough to blow off a paid education.

By: gd779

gd779 — Wed, 03 Mar 2004 11:30:20 -0800

this kid is in college, wasting money and time while being a fool. No, he's in High School. Search google for Rangitoto College.

By: tr33hggr

tr33hggr — Wed, 03 Mar 2004 11:40:03 -0800

Justify your answer: guess Well, I thought that was kinda funny.

By: Seth

Seth — Wed, 03 Mar 2004 11:42:55 -0800

What I want to know is why he didn't get credit for this answer: 9.7 * pi = 30.47344874 / 66.253 = 0.459955756 * 2 = .0919911513 log .0919911513 = -0.036253945 = -0.036(2dp) sq rt 0.036 = 189736659 * 4 = 0.7589(4dp) *10 = 7.589 - 0.589 = 7 Whats wrong with that? Looks like it is right to me. But, then again, I was not a math major....

By: callmejay

callmejay — Wed, 03 Mar 2004 12:02:33 -0800

he forgot to multiply it by 47 and then subtract a cat.

By: tomorama

tomorama — Wed, 03 Mar 2004 14:12:51 -0800

Give the kid an A? Feh. Give this kid a smack to the head and show him the door. Must be nice to be rich enough to blow off a paid education It must be nice to take everything so seriously. Lighten up, buddy!

By: Gary

Gary — Wed, 03 Mar 2004 14:39:50 -0800

Can someone explain how the three box marking system works? I've never seen it before (outside of the 10th frame in bowling) and it doesn't make sense. Is fork + shoe = spleen somehow less of a wrong answer than meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow hiss?

By: Cyrano

Cyrano — Wed, 03 Mar 2004 16:13:00 -0800

Gary, I assumed it meant that the correct answer would have multiple parts, so you could, say, get partial credit if you got two out of three. But, being a lousy English major, I can't confirm this.

By: aiq

aiq — Wed, 03 Mar 2004 16:40:38 -0800

i'm a teacher...arrrrgh! there is so much, um, "dumb stuff"... may leave the gig...

By: gyc

gyc — Wed, 03 Mar 2004 17:09:32 -0800

Too bad he didn't take this exam.

By: gyc

gyc — Wed, 03 Mar 2004 17:10:45 -0800

better link for my post

By: SisterHavana

SisterHavana — Wed, 03 Mar 2004 22:50:20 -0800

gyc: My favorite questions on that test are 19 and 20. What happens if you pick Bobby Knight?