Great answers to tests!

[mgargan1]

Here are some great answers to tests!

[mgargan1]

more of them...

[gauchogolfer]

Thanks for the laugh. As a former TA while in grad school, I can certainly relate.

[mgargan1]

Thanks for the laugh. As a former TA while in grad school, I can certainly relate.

what are some good answers you've gotten?

[gauchogolfer]

what are some good answers you've gotten?

Nothing quite so obvious as those. I was amazed at some people's lack of a concept of 'order of magnitude' in engineering. For example, I was in a class on materials engineering taught for mechanical engineers, and there was a question on failure time of an airplane wing under a given stress. One answer was something like 30x the known age of the universe! Just the lack of thinking 'hey, does my answer make sense?' was often apparent.

[swiftaw]

Just the lack of thinking 'hey, does my answer make sense?' was often apparent.

Yeah, the lack of common sense error checking always astounds me.

The one I see all the time are probabilities that are not between 0 and 1.

(Also, negative variance)

Yes, I teach probability and statistics

[~Shard~]

Haha, these are great - thanks for the laugh! :D

[nbs2]

Thank you. You've given me a reason to keep going today, as I work to move that elephant.

[psychofreak]

My maths teacher used to have a job checking papers for things that could make students do stupid things, he gave 'find x - here it is' as an example. Also he told us that answers to 'name this shape', with a picture of a shape included 'James, Alex and Richard'

[irmongoose]

Crack me up! Reminds me of how hopeless I was in Physics class back in high school... I'm sure that if I go back to my tests there would be at least one such answer on every one of them. :o



irmongoose

[mgargan1]

Speaking of physics, i remember one test where we were supposed to find out how many meters an object traveled...

Well, i had NO clue, so I wrote down, "My pastor told me that Jesus is the answer to everything, so my answer is 'Jesus meters' "

He didn't think it was funny

[Markleshark]

We had a test in RE once, one question was a picture of the last supper and it said name 3 of the people at the table, now, I didn't care about RE so I wrote, Buddah, Hitler and David Beckham.

I had to do extra RE for a week. ****.

[~Shard~]

We had a test in RE once, one question was a picture of the last supper and it said name 3 of the people at the table, now, I didn't care about RE so I wrote, Buddah, Hitler and David Beckham.

I had to do extra RE for a week. ****.

I would have said "The Father, The Son and The Holy Ghost" and see what he would have said. Jesus is technically all 3, isn't he? :p ;)

[Scarlet Fever]

great answers, i wish i had come up with them! :D

for specialist maths last year, i had a question dealing with arithmetic sequences. It was asking how much shampoo would be left if she used 8mL, 4mL, 2mL... etc. for infinite washes.
My response was a drawing of a shampoo bottle, and i stated that after infinite washes, there would be no shampoo left.

[MongoTheGeek]

Once back in high school I was bored in a study hall and the teacher asked me to type up the physics test for the freshman. After 3 or 4 questions and sets of answers on a multiple choice test I got bored. So I started editorializing in answers and adding additional ones.

This was at Montgomery Blair HS back in 89 or 90...

One teacher who used the test was amused.
The other had me re-edit it.

[lancestraz]

I would have said "The Father, The Son and The Holy Ghost" and see what he would have said. Jesus is technically all 3, isn't he? :p ;)
I thought God was the Father, Jesus was the Son, and the Onion dip was the holy Ghost.

But I'm not sure. Just seems to make more sense.

[RedTomato]

Some of these questions are badly written.

http://att.macrumors.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=68478&d=1171568676
Very confusing use of the phrase 'comes to rest'. And where did this teacher learn to start a new line with a comma?


http://att.macrumors.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=68477&d=1171568676

It's its not ' it's initial trajectory '. This schoolteacher needs a bit of remedial school. A bit of mis-spelling in internet posts doesn't bother me, but it should be right in exam papers.

http://att.macrumors.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=68472&d=1171568556

This student can spell 'aesthetically' but not 'straight'? Hmm.

[smueboy]

Some of these questions are badly written.

http://att.macrumors.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=68478&d=1171568676
Very confusing use of the phrase 'comes to rest'. And where did this teacher learn to start a new line with a comma?


yeah - how can an object continue to move if it has come to rest? :rolleyes:

[ToddW]

i had a couple of quizes where i answered some questions with that type of response. i always made sure i did well on the exams. in grad school i was helping out a professor by teaching one of his sophmore level classes, he was sick a lot that semester. it was pretty fun, but the students were not that bright. some of the answers they gave were pretty funny. my roommate and i would laugh our asses off reading some of them at the time. pretty funny stuff. i miss the carefree days of highschool and college.

[stoid]

yeah - how can an object continue to move if it has come to rest? :rolleyes:

You do realize that a projectile object is at rest (with respect to the ground) at the apex of its curve, right? Likewise, at the maximum compression, in between pushing into the spring and rebounding, there is an instant at which the block's velocity would be precisely zero. At this point the block's potential energy would be lost entirely to the spring.

[wmmk]

are you a teacher, student (who doesn't give a crap about grades), or were these all just on google?

[psychofreak]

are you a teacher, student (who doesn't give a crap about grades), or were these all just on google?

http://justsomegibberish.blogspot.com/2005/11/funny-exam-answers.html
http://www.richardpettinger.com/economics/funny_exam_answers
These came up with a google search...

[scem0]

What a great thread! Thanks for the laugh.

I don't have a picture, but a professor once asked the question "What is courage?" as an essay question on his final exam. A student simply responded "This is."

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[psychofreak]

What a great thread! Thanks for the laugh.

I don't have a picture, but a professor once asked the question "What is courage?" as an essay question on his final exam. A student simply responded "This is."

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I heard the same, but with 'what is the hardest thing you ever did?'

[smueboy]

You do realize that a projectile object is at rest (with respect to the ground) at the apex of its curve, right? Likewise, at the maximum compression, in between pushing into the spring and rebounding, there is an instant at which the block's velocity would be precisely zero. At this point the block's potential energy would be lost entirely to the spring.

ok, i see your point - i didn't consider a moment of zero velocity being 'at rest' in the strictest sense, but then Newtonian laws certainly aren't my strong point. :)

[noaccess]

Here's the follow-up for that chemistry exam and what the guy wrote
http://img58.imageshack.us/img58/628/exam01lq7.jpg (http://imageshack.us)
http://img58.imageshack.us/img58/3985/exam02ql8.jpg (http://imageshack.us)
http://img58.imageshack.us/img58/8743/exam03lj4.jpg (http://imageshack.us)
http://img486.imageshack.us/img486/852/exam04tp1.jpg (http://imageshack.us)
http://img486.imageshack.us/img486/8356/exam05oy1.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

And here are a few more links:
Exam1 (http://www.snopes.com/college/exam/oneword.asp)
Exam2 (http://www.snopes.com/college/exam/brevity.asp)

[smueboy]

are you a teacher, student (who doesn't give a crap about grades), or were these all just on google?

I received these same answers in an email the other day, so i guess they are doing the rounds. very funny!
another:
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[Xander562]

Some more I've come across.

[2nyRiggz]

LOL...I should of never opened up this thread at work...people looking at me like I'm crazy now.

I did a lot of this back in high school....damn how did I graduate. I couldn't be bothered trying to explain what I didn't understand so I would run on about something different and the teacher would always draw :confused: :rolleyes: on the paper.




Bless

[dllavaneras]

The two best ones, without a doubt are these:
http://att.macrumors.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=68476&d=1171568676 and http://att.macrumors.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=68473&d=1171568556

I'm printing and giving them to my math professor :D

[mariahlullaby]

In HS we had a teacher who we suspected never really read our in-class essays (the only type of essays we really had in that class). So, for the next few essays, a group of boys (it's always the boys....:rolleyes: :p) wrote in um....extra bits. After a few times of her not noticing, they got more bold and had whole paragraphs about Chuck Norris giving roundhouse kicks to Jane Austen, wrote entire songs about teachers in the school, and even UNDERLINED some of this stuff.

She eventually noticed, but much too late to save face, IMO. :p

[Killyp]

In HS we had a teacher who we suspected never really read our in-class essays (the only type of essays we really had in that class). So, for the next few essays, a group of boys (it's always the boys....:rolleyes: :p) wrote in um....extra bits. After a few times of her not noticing, they got more bold and had whole paragraphs about Chuck Norris giving roundhouse kicks to Jane Austen, wrote entire songs about teachers in the school, and even UNDERLINED some of this stuff.

She eventually noticed, but much too late to save face, IMO. :p

LOL

A friend of mine (who happens to be an exceptionally good musician) wrote in his music GCSE paper:

<extract played: Harry Potter theme tune>

What kind of film would this be for?

Teen Schoolboy Magic Thriller


He's one of those people that can get away with writing the most ridiculous things in his exams.

What we always do is on the pages where they just print "No questions are on this page", we just write "Why?" underneath, therefore completely undermining the examiners and having a silly sense of smug self satisfaction...

[Counterfit]

I heard the same, but with 'what is the hardest thing you ever did?'

"Finishing an exam early with B.S. answers, then going and banging my {professor's subject} professor's wife."


:D


And I also love the "expand (a+b)^2" answer. I think it's amazing that I could still answer that, even though I haven't taken a math class since freshman year (03-04). a^2+2ab+b^2, right?

[dllavaneras]

And I also love the "expand (a+b)^2" answer. I think it's amazing that I could still answer that, even though I haven't taken a math class since freshman year (03-04). a^2+2ab+b^2, right?

It's only that if its (a+b)^2 ;)

[iSaint]

I would have said "The Father, The Son and The Holy Ghost" and see what he would have said. Jesus is technically all 3, isn't he? :p ;)

No, all Three are One. It's complicated, you just have to accept it (if you're a C). :p

[n-abounds]

Well, it's not humorous- but in Calculus, my teacher asked for an absolutely convergent series.

I gave him "the sum from n=1 to infinity of zero" It converges (immediately at zero), and the absolute value of zero also converges. I didn't even have to tell him what it converged to (zero).

But hey, I honestly think that kept me from getting a 5-credit F...I got a D instead.

[Abstract]

You do realize that a projectile object is at rest (with respect to the ground) at the apex of its curve, right? Likewise, at the maximum compression, in between pushing into the spring and rebounding, there is an instant at which the block's velocity would be precisely zero. At this point the block's potential energy would be lost entirely to the spring.

You're right. As poorly written as that question seems, I think that students in a Physics class would have no trouble understanding it. Once you do Physics for a term, you're bound to interpret questions like this differently, and in a way that such a statement makes sense.

For people who don't do physics, or haven't taken a physics class in a long time, it just seems poorly written.

[Bobdude161]

HAHA!! YES!! I always did this during difficult tests. Even in college. I remember one day where there was a page with one question worth 20 points out of 100. I got frustrated with it so I wrote down lyrics to the Halo intro song.

"oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh, oh-oh-oh, oh-oh-oh-oh...."

Took up the whole page.

[iMacZealot]

Whenever I have absolutely no idea to answer something, I try and come up with a funny answer, and it usually doesn't cost me anything because they honestly never look at my answers. Once, in some essays, I just wrote out the lyrics of "They" by Jem (which is a song about not following rules), and she didn't even look at them!

[MongoTheGeek]

No, all Three are One. It's complicated, you just have to accept it (if you're a C). :p

You just have to remember that God is like a Shamrock, small green and split three ways.

[iBlue]

This thread is a gem! I cannot stop giggling. Inspired genius, some of these.

http://att.macrumors.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=68474&stc=1&d=1171568556

classic!

[Poseidon]

On the test-taking thread...

An story (probably an urban legend) I've seen make the rounds talks about a young man who is taking a final exam in a huge lecture hall. He's working and working as everyone else finishes up and leaves; in fact he's still working as the professor calls time. And he keeps working for another couple minutes AFTER time has been called.

He finally stops, and brings down his exam to the front, where the professor is waiting.

"Young man, you were working past time. I can't accept this exam" says the Professor.

"What?! You can't be serious! Do you know who I am?!" replies the rather angry student.

"I don't have the slightest idea who you are" the Professor informs him.

"Thank God!" says the student before quickly shoving his exam into the middle of a huge stack and running out the door.

[eluk]

Times past

Q. Who was John Wellesley.

My answer "son of Mr. & Mrs. Wellesley.

Note
I came second from last in History.

[dllavaneras]

Times past

Q. Who was John Wellesley.

My answer "son of Mr. & Mrs. Wellesley."


:D It's true! They shouldn't remove points from that...

[iAlan]

ok, i see your point - i didn't consider a moment of zero velocity being 'at rest' in the strictest sense, but then Newtonian laws certainly aren't my strong point. :)

I though Apple discontinued the Newton?

[ruZZ.il]

good thread.. anyway, I'll be the poop :P

lim(1/(x-8)) x->8 doesnt exist, ie, its not infinity. hmpf. though x->8- is
(x->8+ is neg. infinity... )
and for the expansion thing.. lol. good one :) anyway:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/math/0/7/5/075b23417ae9f63bccfb11f721c664da.png
http://upload.wikimedia.org/math/3/9/e/39e247f7bfc44529b46388180735ecdc.png
ie,
http://upload.wikimedia.org/math/7/2/b/72bade03788acd02e2bbf501fa9d2d6e.png

[®îçhå®?]

good thread.. anyway, I'll be the poop :P

lim(1/(x-8)) x->8 doesnt exist, ie, its not infinity. hmpf. though x->8- is
(x->8+ is neg. infinity... )
and for the expansion thing.. lol. good one :) anyway:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/math/0/7/5/075b23417ae9f63bccfb11f721c664da.png
http://upload.wikimedia.org/math/3/9/e/39e247f7bfc44529b46388180735ecdc.png
ie,
http://upload.wikimedia.org/math/7/2/b/72bade03788acd02e2bbf501fa9d2d6e.png

As you limit it, it gets closer and closer to 8. 1/(1-8) is a smaller negative number than 1/(0.1-8). Yes it does go to -infinity but in this case, there is an asymptote at 8.

And in the case of the bottom one, it is simple binomial expansion

[XIII]

This thread is a gem! I cannot stop giggling. Inspired genius, some of these.

http://att.macrumors.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=68474&stc=1&d=1171568556

classic!

Yeah, I think I'll use this one before the end of term.. and the expanding one. Very funny. :D

[BigPrince]

I once found an integral to be arctan(x^2) /2 and one of the values I had to plug in was infinity and I assumed it would be undef or something stupid and then I started to cry when my calculator actually returned me an answer of pie/4. Thank god I have a TI 89.

[®îçhå®?]

I once found an integral to be arctan(x^2) /2 and one of the values I had to plug in was infinity and I assumed it would be undef or something stupid and then I started to cry when my calculator actually returned me an answer of pie/4. Thank god I have a TI 89.

I take it that you are talking in radeons here

[annk]

:D It's true! They shouldn't remove points from that...

Well, it isn't necessarily true...:p

[gauchogolfer]

I take it that you are talking in radeons here

:D

Radeon = Graphics Card
Radian = Unit of Angle

[BigPrince]

Not sure. The calculator just returned the value "pie/4" and whats what I put down as what the integral converges too.

[®îçhå®?]

Not sure. The calculator just returned the value "pie/4" and whats what I put down as what the integral converges too.

Which is equivalent to 45 degrees which is where an asymptote of the tanx graph is.

And gauchogolfer, i forgot the spelling so was taking a shot in the dark :p

[XIII]

:D

Radeon = Graphics Card
Radian = Unit of Angle

<Rio Ferdinand voice>

Merced! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZF95RVBNGA)

</Rio Ferdinand voice>

:o

[dllavaneras]

The calculator just returned the value "pie/4" and whats what I put down as what the integral converges too.

And gauchogolfer, i forgot the spelling so was taking a shot in the dark :p

Obviously, so did BigPrince ;):rolleyes:
http://www.lowcarbluxury.com/newsletter/mockapplepie.jpg

just teasing... :p

[Cassie]

This thread is a gem! I cannot stop giggling. Inspired genius, some of these.

http://att.macrumors.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=68474&stc=1&d=1171568556

classic!

:confused: I'm in 8th grade and I can do that.

[nitynate]

:confused: I'm in 8th grade and I can do that.
I'm a freshman, and I cant.

:p

[gauchogolfer]

<Rio Ferdinand voice>

Merced! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZF95RVBNGA)

</Rio Ferdinand voice>

:o

Awesome link, thanks XIII.

I liked when the co-driver said 'boy these people in Manchester talk funny'.

Other than that I couldn't understand a word he said. :confused: :confused:

:D

[XIII]

Awesome link, thanks XIII.

I liked when the co-driver said 'boy these people in Manchester talk funny'.

Other than that I couldn't understand a word he said. :confused: :confused:

:D

Heheh. :D I remember watching the whole show, it was pretty funny. There are some others on there uploaded by the same guy you might have seen, on Shaun Wright-Phillips, David James, Ashley Cole.. good old Rio. :o

[annk]

:confused: I'm in 8th grade and I can do that.

Yes, but would it have occurred to you to write "Here it is"? Now THAT'S thinking outside of the box (or triangle, in this case :p ).

[CubaTBird]

omg these are funny.

[ruZZ.il]

As you limit it, it gets closer and closer to 8. 1/(1-8) is a smaller negative number than 1/(0.1-8). Yes it does go to -infinity but in this case, there is an asymptote at 8.

And in the case of the bottom one, it is simple binomial expansion

noooo.. lim(x), x->8 is x as it aproaches 8 (not x->0).. ie, 7.999...., or 8.00...001. the thing is, 1/(8.001-8)=1/0.001=1000 whilst 1/(7.999-8)=1/(-0.001)=-1000 so the limit doesnt actually exist since a limit only exists if both its single sided limits exist AND are equal, since here while x->8- the lim is neg. infinity whilst x->8+ is infinity, so.. the limit doesnt exist.


( lim(x), x->8- = lim(x), x->8 x<8
lim(x), x->8+ = lim(x), x->8 8<x )

anyway. I'm still being a poop. my math actually really sucks... (for a learning physicist..)

[mgargan1]

:confused: I'm in 8th grade and I can do that.

Yes, but not everyone remembers that there are 3 4 5 triangles...

most people, as they get older, lose a lot of their math ability and gain language proficiency.

[RedTomato]

So I was taking first year computer science, and it's the term exams.

Forgive me if the following question is gibberish - it was over 10 years ago:
In a data structure consisting of a binary tree of linked nodes, if a parent node is deleted, how is the child node re-attached?


The child node sues for paternity rights.
Got a 'very funny', a smiley, and a big fat zero.

I don't touch data structures now, nor do I play one on TV.

[dllavaneras]

Got a 'very funny', a smiley, and a big fat zero.

Hey, at least you got a smiley! :)

[theyoda3]

I support ruZZ.il, the limit does not exist due to one asymptote going to negative infinity and the other going to positive infinity.

[sb58]

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y131/dotman/lolmath8.jpg
not sure if someone posted this one...

[ruZZ.il]

hehe did he get graded with a Phi and a chi?
maybe we should start a math pouting thread.. this is meant to be funny not funnily sad :P

[RedTomato]

hehe did he get graded with a Phi and a chi?


That's not chi. That symbol is meant to be aleph, which means he got infinite points!

I'll say that again, deeper.

infinite, infinite, infinite points!

woo! Sure got us all beat!

I'll leave explaining the meaning of phi to someone else. Perhaps it could mean golden infinity :)

[ruZZ.il]

aleph alone is just the first leter of the hebrew alphabet.. you may mean aleph-null(http://upload.wikimedia.org/math/b/e/4/be4c703ed73456618ed283b892c6715a.png) or smtn.. which is inifinite.. albeit a countable infinity, so, a 'smaller' one :P phi can be designated to anything you wish. in physics though, its usually assigned to an angle.. or a phase difference (an angle too, I guess..).. but things get recycled alot, so.. hmph for us ha? I assume in the case above it was assigned to the constant=0. hmph for him..

[iBlue]

:confused: I'm in 8th grade and I can do that.
That's great and all but can you come up with a funny answer when you cannot? <point revealed> :p