Remember those moments in exams when you had no idea what the answer to the question was?
Had no clue what x equaled, no notion of how to spell anesthetic and no concept of what Cp was supposed to represent on the periodic table?
Well – these kids know how you felt but they weren’t scared of failure. They gave it a go anyway. The little troopers.
And their efforts make for hilarious results.
Find x.
Thanks Buzzfeed.
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Year 7 history exam on ancient Rome (actual answer from one of my friends).
Q: Name four countries that were part of the Roman empire.
A: Blah, blah, blah and Gaul, except for one small village.
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Slightly removed from the thread, but it made me laugh! My son recently had to write out a family tree, he asked me how to spell everyone’s name, which I duly dictated and checked (we have a couple of slightly uncommon spellings). Imagine my amusement when the homework comes home with my name (Kathryn) corrected to “Catherine”!!!!!
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My husband went to a private school. They had exams on religion, which they all tried to fail. One of the questions on one exam was “who was Jeremiah”? One of his mates answered “a bullfrog”. He failed.
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A friend of mine is a HSIE teacher and she asked the class one day, during revision of Australian Politics, who Harold Holt was.
The response: A depressed president who threw his ear in the ocean’. From a year 10 class.
Oh yes.
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I dont think that ‘little kids’ took some of these tests.
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I remember one of my teachers telling me how when she was teaching in England she set her students an essay. The topic was “What is Courage?”
Students wrote pages and pages talking about heroes and what courage meant to them. One student wrote two words, “This is”. She said she couldn’t give him anything less than an A+.
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Some of the reply comments don’t seem to be linked to the comment they were replying too. Not sure if this is a result of pre-moderation, but if it is just letting you know it’s happening
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When I worked at Safeway we had to complete a lot of OHS tests. I thought it was a load of bullshite so I wrote randomly stupid answers. One I remember is: “what is shrinkage?” and I answered “when a guy walks into very cold water”.
Never had it questioned so just makes you wonder how valid these so called OHS tests are if no one ever checks them.
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Can I add this pls!
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LOL! Did Arielle get any marks for that answer?
Pretty funny that it was a girl, that looks more like the work of a boy!
I have no idea what the correct answer would be!
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Hehehe!
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My English class were doing a unit on Australian icons. In a quiz they were shown a picture of Dame Edna and asked to name the comedian who portrays that character. One of the answers – Barnaby Joyce!!! I nearly wet myself when I was marking it, our whole staff room got a great giggle out of it. The difference between Barnaby Joyce and Barry Humphries – Barry Humphries is intentionally silly…
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Hilarious, I wish I’d had the balls to do this when I was at school.
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I’d say that’s a perfectly legitimate and accurate response! You’d have to give him at least half a mark..
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My son has grown up listening to my 1970s music. So when asked in a history test ‘Who was the leader of the Aztecs’, he wrote ‘Billy Thorpe’
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Can I add this one to the gallery
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Brilliant!!!
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“I like hard penis?” Apparently written by an infants school aged child? and I am assuming the pink thing drawn is not a love heart…..Not funny.
The elephant though….GOLD!
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Well, the comment underneath does say that when asked read it out, she said “I like hard pencils”. So it looks like it was just a spelling mistake…
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the (very miniscule) writing underneath explains its supposed to read “heart pencils”
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The explanation is in small writing at the bottom.
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Did you read the small caption at the bottom of the picture? I got a bit confused with that one but the caption explains it
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Ah, well thanks for pointing that out, I can’t read it. Not sure how anyone else can. Does everyone right click and view image?
Perhaps it might have been useful to add that explanation to the caption rather than “Today is Thursday”. Still don’t think it’s that funny.
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As I teacher, I too see these things often. the spelling mistakes are often hilarious. My most recent one was a student writing a response to ‘I Love a Sunburnt Country’ – country minus the o.
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I’d give number 9 a standing ovation.
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My son is a classic. In Year 3 he had to write a narrative for NAPLAN on the theme “The Box”. All the other kids wrote about boxes of fairies and love. He came home and told me “It was easy, Mum. I just wrote about this kid who received a box in the mail. He opened it, and realized it was a consignment of cocaine. I described how he knew it was cocaine by it’s texture and feel” (he had watched a documentary on this on Foxtel, unbeknown to me!). Then the next year (yr 4), he was required to write a description of his pet rock. All the other kids wrote “My Pet rock has blue eyes and curly hair”. He wrote “My pet rock is an assassin whose job it is to eliminate the enemies of his master, William James the third. At night, however, his conscience plagues him, so he binge drinks to wipe out the memories of his horrific crimes”. He is so EMBARRASSING! He comes from a stable middle class family and neither parent has touched drugs and barely have a glass of wine on the weekend!
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He actually sounds very talented! The next Quentin Tarantino?
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I think your son is brilliant! That gave me the best laugh of the day (and it’s been a bad day, so thank you!) xx
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That is amazing! He sounds like he’s hilarious, what a cool kid
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Just wondering if the mobile galleries will be working again soon?
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In response to the question “what is an unsaturated molecule?” on a chemistry exam I wrote “a molecule that is not saturated”. I stand by the fact that technically it was correct
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Equally funny is the fact that you clearly can’t spell “spell”. You’ve got the sentence “no notion of how to spel anesthetic”. Hmmnnnn!!!
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Oh, I want to say something. Should I say something?
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Whoops – on a reread I spotted that MM did acknowledge the source.
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Good to see you’ve fixed your spellng!!!
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Cant see gallery- will have a go on my desktop comp. but in the mean time- were you deliberately misspelling ‘spell’?
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Anaesthetic is wrong too (unless you were going for the American spelling)!
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“What do we call the science of classifying living things?” “Racism”
That one was actually really smart.
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Hiya, when will the galleries be up and running? V. Frustrating not to be able to see what the articles are about. Hope the technical gremlins get fixed soon!
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Hahaha too funny! Thanks for the laughs MM!
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I used to mark school certificate papers so I’ve marked some gold in my time. Some of my favourites:
“Papa is a whinging douchebag”
“his car was fully sick and he probably took it drag racing” (the character was 85 years old!)
“the character is an arrogant prick”
And when teaching Romeo and Juliet, my two favourite moments:
” Romeo and Juliet were silly children who should have listened to their parents and if I was her mother I’d be taking away her mobile phone”
And after watching Shakespeare In Love, a student asked at the end (because the character is in a shipwreck) “Oh, did that mean Shakespeare wrote Titanic? I thought that Leonardo Di Caprio was Shakespeare’s favourite actor!”
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I think this just shows that these kids have a great sense of humour that will help them get into/make it through the workforce, a lot more than knowing the answer will
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I used to work for a company which processes examination papers…these ones are just the tip of the iceberg, let me tell you. Kids are hilarious, but some of their answers just make you scratch your head, and not in a good way.
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the 9th one was poignant
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