The letter from the teacher is adding insult to injury, and i love it!!
The letter from the teacher is adding insult to injury, and i love it!!
That is so pathetic it might actually be true.
The old adage for Navy advancement exams goes "When in doubt, Charlie out." Not in this case.
Do i see an eraser mark on question 20?
GlennS wrote: Do i see an eraser mark on question 20?
You did. Good eye.
water on keyboard and monitor now...
Coffee on this one.
No spray on mine, but inspiration to do some Googling:
http://funnyexamanswers.com/2007/10/24/find-the-height-of-a-building-using-a-barometer/
oldsaw wrote: No spray on mine, but inspiration to do some Googling: http://funnyexamanswers.com/2007/10/24/find-the-height-of-a-building-using-a-barometer/
That's awesome!
The prof. could benefit from a lesson in grammar, and punctuation.
suprf1y wrote: The prof. could benefit from a lesson in grammar, and punctuation.
and math...guessing would result in 1/5th rather than 1/4th correct.
My favourite:
When I was in math 9, I studied for a test, answered as best could and still failed.
The lazy cow next to me simply marked "C" for every question on the scantron and got 54% on the test.
I was pissed! I complained to the math teacher about it and to the administration. They simply couldn't grasp the fact the the teacher should've set the answers up a little better considering he had five letters to choose from.
It's not really a big deal now, the girl is probably jockeying a cash register in a liquor store by now.
Shawn
My favorite is the story about the long goofy test that opens with telling the students to "Read ALL directions and questions thoroughly before beginning" and the last question is something like "Just put your name on the test and draw a smiley face in the box below. Do not answer any other questions. You're done."
In reply to Salanis:
GA, I took that test, and worked my butt off. I always hated questions where I had the answer but couldnt show my work in time, id use the magic relation, IE draw a magic want and wavy lines around the answer.
Salanis wrote: My favorite is the story about the long goofy test that opens with telling the students to "Read ALL directions and questions thoroughly before beginning" and the last question is something like "Just put your name on the test and draw a smiley face in the box below. Do not answer any other questions. You're done."
That test made my 11 year old daughter vey last year. Not so funny to her but a lesson well learned.
An entire gallery of funny test stuff (some ads NSFW)
http://www.ebaumsworld.com/pictures/view/80806661/
oldsaw wrote: No spray on mine, but inspiration to do some Googling: http://funnyexamanswers.com/2007/10/24/find-the-height-of-a-building-using-a-barometer/
If this is true, it's the coolest thing ever.
pigeon wrote: That test made my 11 year old daughter vey last year. Not so funny to her but a lesson well learned.
Um... what?
Oh, and I'm thinking of putting together one for some of my students, because it's really frustrating to have them not read directions.
Salanis wrote:pigeon wrote: That test made my 11 year old daughter vey last year. Not so funny to her but a lesson well learned.Um... what? Oh, and I'm thinking of putting together one for some of my students, because it's really frustrating to have them not read directions.
i think he meant cry
Salanis wrote: My favorite is the story about the long goofy test that opens with telling the students to "Read ALL directions and questions thoroughly before beginning" and the last question is something like "Just put your name on the test and draw a smiley face in the box below. Do not answer any other questions. You're done."
I had a history teacher pull that one on my class once. Good thing for me I always give the test a good look over before answering things. You would be surprised at how often you will find answers to one question in another actual question.
I took a course called "Classical Music Listening" in college. It was held on Tuesdays and Thursdays and it was a class of about 200. During one of the weeks, I had to attend a funeral and I missed both classes. It just so happened that it was an exam prep week.
I showed up the following Tuesday and saw in the front of the auditorium the instructions for taking the exam that day on the big projector screen. I wanted to bolt and try to make it up later, but I didn't think that would fly. I didn't know E36 M3 on that exam. Nothing at all. And the format didn't make it easier. He would play 5 seconds of some random classical song (or a requiem) and we had to identify the composer, the year, the genre, and the title. We had 10 seconds to answer all four questions before he would just move onto the next one. It was all multiple choice on a scantron sheet, but that didn't help. I was absolutely pissed and at some point during the exam I just gave up and started answering A - B - C - D - E - D - C - B - A. I think I was even drawing shapes in one column. He even stopped next to me during one of his walks and asked if I was OK (to which I replied "Hell no").
The following class, we heard that the lowest grade was a 33%. I thought for sure that was me. Nope! I got a 45%. Somebody legitimately did worse than me. I wish I knew who it was.
OH! And my old high school chem teacher had an interesting homework grading policy. If you just DID your homework (it didn't have to be right), he would add +1 on your next exam. Cool, right?
Well, if you didn't do your homework, you got -3 off of your next exam. We had a lot of homework one particular week and a friend of mine was known for not doing his. He also missed the test and we weren't allowed to make up tests under certain circumstances (and he met those). He got a -24%. It averaged into his final grade that way too!
confuZion3 wrote: I took a course called "Classical Music Listening" in college. It was held on Tuesdays and Thursdays and it was a class of about 200. During one of the weeks, I had to attend a funeral and I missed both classes. It just so happened that it was an exam prep week. I showed up the following Tuesday and saw in the front of the auditorium the instructions for taking the exam that day on the big projector screen. I wanted to bolt and try to make it up later, but I didn't think that would fly. I didn't know E36 M3 on that exam. Nothing at all. And the format didn't make it easier. He would play 5 seconds of some random classical song (or a requiem) and we had to identify the composer, the year, the genre, and the title. We had 10 seconds to answer all four questions before he would just move onto the next one. It was all multiple choice on a scantron sheet, but that didn't help. I was absolutely pissed and at some point during the exam I just gave up and started answering A - B - C - D - E - D - C - B - A. I think I was even drawing shapes in one column. He even stopped next to me during one of his walks and asked if I was OK (to which I replied "Hell no"). The following class, we heard that the lowest grade was a 33%. I thought for sure that was me. Nope! I got a 45%. Somebody legitimately did worse than me. I wish I knew who it was.
Actually be glad about your 45%....
On one of the midterms this quarter the teacher curved by simply adding 20 points on to your total, so your test had two scores.... the actual, and the adjusted.
One kid somehow managed to earn a negative score for his actual. Not sure what you have to do to come out worse then if you would have just immediately handed the blank test back to the teacher with your name on it.
I've bombed a test or two, but I will always feel better about at least not getting a negative from now on.
Assessment of student performance is one of the least understood practices in education. This holds true from elementary grades all the way through university.
Rob
oldsaw wrote: No spray on mine, but inspiration to do some Googling: http://funnyexamanswers.com/2007/10/24/find-the-height-of-a-building-using-a-barometer/
What is this? Every time I click on it it crashes my browser
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