When you don't study...

[Sigbru]

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Did you ever done something like that? or you have another picture? If so post it here

[Timberwolf]

This wasn't me but it's still good.

A friend of my brother's was stuck in a physics exam. He hadn't revised at all. So, he wrote something along these lines.

Dear Mr Examiner. I am sorry to waste your time, but I really don't have a clue. So, to salvage some sort of pride, I am writing this letter to you. I hope that you can find it within yourself to, if I write you a story, give me some marks for Spelling, Punctuation and Grammar.

Yours....

Anyway, he wrote him a story for the whole 2 hr physics exam. Got an "E" too sohe must have got some marks.

[Exeson]

Well, I was doing Ancient Greek, and I had no idea how to translate a sentence. but our teacher had told us that to leave gaps is a sin. So I just put "Never put socks in a toaster" needless to say he wasn't amused, I will post a picture later.

Also, on of my Dad's friends, for his English exam he had to write a newspaper article on a athletics match. So he just wrote, 'match was canceled due to heavy rain'

[eidreff]

Going back to the hazy depths of my memory the line (spoken in a French Aural test)

"J'ai perdu ma maison. Je laissez chea moi ce matin, mais maintenant ce n'est pas la!"

Also the pure stupidity of fooling around with an air rifle as part of a physics practical exam (we disabled a safty device on it and tinkered with the pellets to see what would happen..) in a physics lab with twenty people in it.

Then at Uni, presenting an end of term project. The EHT power source for another groups project was showing overload/short on both Pos and Neg rails (bad) One of the lights went out. They continued the presentation and informed us all that this was a good thing. As they talked the device they made slowly melted down on the lab bench.

[Exeson]

Here is a pic, number 8.

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And yes, I am terrible at Ancient Greek.

[bluewind95]

I didn't do this one, but someone I know did.

Question: "Which organ in the body serves no known function and can be removed without any ill effects from the patient?"

Answer: "The liver."

Needless to say, the teacher advised this person NOT to study medicine.

[Castaras]

While I don't actually put that sorta thing much on my papers, I do doodle loads.

And I mean, Loads.

I'll go get some of the doodling stuff I have...

Although...There was a time in maths when I just sat in class, cutting out pages of my maths book, and folding the paper into paper flapping birds...Needless to say, my teacher was not impressed.

Although, he doesn't like my doodling either. Eh well. Not many of my teachers do, come to think of it...I still do it though...<.< >.>

[Skippy]

I heard a couple of cases similar to these ones. One was a guy who was questioned what the real numbers were, and he replied "Those that can be seen and touched".

Another one was in a written test, where a guy was asked any question, and he answered "I don't know". What is amusing is another test, with the answer "Me neither" on that question.

[Bor the Barbarian Monk]

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Did you ever done something like that? or you have another picture? If so post it here
Oh my! I laughed so hard, I started crying.

I have a story...but, ummm...well, it involved sex ed. The teacher wanted a technical answer to a question, which asked, "Can you describe the process of (not gonna say it) to the point of (not gonna say this one either)?"

My answer: "Nope. Not a clue."

Teacher marked it wrong.

I went back and argued, "You didn't tell me to explain it. You asked if I could. I couldn't and said so."

Got full credit for answering. :smalltongue:

[Exeson]

While I don't actually put that sorta thing much on my papers, I do doodle loads.

And I mean, Loads.

I'll go get some of the doodling stuff I have...

Although...There was a time in maths when I just sat in class, cutting out pages of my maths book, and folding the paper into paper flapping birds...Needless to say, my teacher was not impressed.

Although, he doesn't like my doodling either. Eh well. Not many of my teachers do, come to think of it...I still do it though...<.< >.>

Heh, same, I have a system though. All the left pages are for notes and the right pages are for doodles.

I also just remembered, there was a history essay question, and at the end it said (10 marks) (6-800 words)

So I just wrote a 20 word answer. I got told to redo it. :smallbiggrin:

[Semidi]

I wish I could get my AP biology essay questions back.

On the seconds essay I had no clue what the hell any of the words were. I had to draw what some kind of test would look like and do an essay. What did I do? I made a smiley face that looked like a cell.

The ears were Mitochondria, the lips were microtubules, the nose was a nucleus, the hair was fibers(I forget the name), and he had ribosome freckles.

My essay question was about a bacteria that had been mutated into a crime fighter by the name of Bactaman. I wrote this in the style of Kurt Vonnegut by starting off the essay with

Listen:

Bactaman has become unstuck in time.

Needless to say, I doubt I received ANY points on that particular question. But I couldn't stop laughing in the testing room.

I got a 3 on the test, good for 8 hours of college credit and a Life Science credit.

Weee!

Another question I was asked in Bible Class in the 9th grade was, “Why were the Christians fed to the lions.”

I replied, “They were hungry and Christians at this time were poor thus LoCal. The lions were dieting.

[Reinboom]

I've done something like this before - taking a much more sarcastic route to answering something - though I don't recall for which class.
Since it was only for a single problem, IIRC, I actually got half credit for the problem. (I believe it was in precalc or trig... definitely that teacher)

On a somewhat related note:
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[Skippy]

I've done something like this before - taking a much more sarcastic route to answering something - though I don't recall for which class.
Since it was only for a single problem, IIRC, I actually got half credit for the problem. (I believe it was in precalc or trig... definitely that teacher)

On a somewhat related note:
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That guy is amazing. I see what he did to his blackboard and I still laugh hard.

[Veg Sorbet]

I doodled a lot. Still do, in fact, though now I do it to stop myself falling asleep in lectures, rather than to avoid doing work. I also used to spend French and German lessons making up nonsense statements, the most memorable being 'a turnip has eaten my face!' which I unfortunately never got around to "accidentally" including in an exam.

For one particular uni assignment, I was sorely tempted to hand in a note saying "your question made no sense. Here's 30 pages of jibberish." Fortunately, another student managed to make sense of it for me eventually. My resulting answer was still pretty crap, though.

[AmberVael]

Nice. I love all of those.
Actually, I'm pretty sure I did the "find x" one myself... >>
'cept it was a far different problem.

[InaVegt]

Heh, same, I have a system though. All the left pages are for notes and the right pages are for doodles.

I also just remembered, there was a history essay question, and at the end it said (10 marks) (6-800 words)

So I just wrote a 20 word answer. I got told to redo it. :smallbiggrin:

In the same vein, in second grade of VWO (we start to recount at secondary ed here, so that's like tenth grade total) I had a test for German.

All the questions were in the vein of "Tell this and that person ..." Or "Ask this and that person ..." Without ever specifying it had to be in German, so I just wrote all the answers down in dutch (which is my native language, for those not in the know) because I had been ill and didn't know of the test (and as such had not prepared)

Needless to say, my teacher of German was *NOT* amused.

Got my first 1 for that as well :frown:

[Pyro]

Never did anything like that on a test. Usually I know enough to put down an answer that kinda makes sense. I would rather try than completely give up. Meh, maybe I'm uncool like that.

[Telonius]

That reminds me of an urban legend. A philosophy professor, who had a reputation as being an extremely hard grader, always wrote one question on the blackboard for the final exam: "What is courage?" Only one student ever got an A+ on this exam. His answer? Two words: "This is."

[Dihan]

During my GCSE Welsh exam, I fished for more points by drawing the Welsh flag on the back with "Cymru am byth!*" on top.

*"Wales forever!" in English

[CrazedGoblin]

in my german GCSE mock orals i asked for Geography Icecream, thinking it was strawberry, someone who knows german post it, i cant remember either now hehe

[Trog]

That reminds me of an urban legend. A philosophy professor, who had a reputation as being an extremely hard grader, always wrote one question on the blackboard for the final exam: "What is courage?" Only one student ever got an A+ on this exam. His answer? Two words: "This is."

I heard similar ones at college. Except the Final test was comprised of a one word question: "Why?" People wrote paragraphs. Some did well. Others didn't. The highest grade went to the person that answered: "Why not?" Second runner up: "Because." Or the other way around. I forget.

Why the hell didn't I ever get a final like that?! :smallannoyed:

[Cobra_Ikari]

I heard similar ones at college. Except the Final test was comprised of a one word question: "Why?" People wrote paragraphs. Some did well. Others didn't. The highest grade went to the person that answered: "Why not?" Second runner up: "Because." Or the other way around. I forget.

Why the hell didn't I ever get a final like that?! :smallannoyed:

Because they don't exist?

I've never done this on a final. But then, I had finals involving tapirs. So...why make it any more ridiculous?

[SMEE]

Reminds me of a time during college that I had a test on management.
I answered all the questions with quotations from the book "The art of war", from Sun Tsu, and nothing else.
I got 95 out of 100.

A girl friend of mine got the same grade as I did. She wrote about 8 pages worth of answers. I wrote 15 lines...

[Hannes]

I was sick, and so missed a few physics lessons. We did a laboratory test on some warmth thingies (Temperatural balance?). In the end we had to write things that we deducted from it. Since I got 4 hours of sleep, I prepared 1 liter of coffee in the morning. Physics was the first lesson. I drank all the coffee during the lesson. I understood nothing. The thing I wrote in the deduction was that "The test showed us that the laws of thermal balance work. -blah blah blah-. Also, coffee raises the potential of the body and reduces that of the mind. -insert rant about coffee here."

I got a 5 for the work and a list of books touching that subject being half a page in length.

It was fun.

[Ceska]

Needless to say, my teacher of German was *NOT* amused.

Got my first 1 for that as well :frown:
Well, 1 is the best grade in German countries anyway.

Personally I don't think I have any stories to tell. I'm boring like that. Although last year's exam in maths was a bit strange. Well, I had screwed up before, mainly because I had become depressive, they had sent me to a psychiatrist whose first question was "now, do you want some pills to fix you?", which I never agreed upon, I simply decided to work through it myself although I got a friend of my father, who studied physics, even though now he's software developer, to help me with why you do learn those mathematical problems. That had always been my problem.

Now when the day came I had worked through it quite often, but I wasn't all too sure. At first I would have an exam over two hours, and then another hour or so oral exam as well. I screw up the exam itself by one point, then it's decided if I get through with a negative grade or not by the oral exam. After half an hour she agrees that I did well enough to pass and asks me

"You did not make basic mistakes that you did make in the written test, why?"
"Well, you see, I was nervous then."
"And you weren't now?"
"No. I could talk around it for a bit, thus I could reach my own conclusion. I can't possibly write down how I come to this conclusion, or just a 'okay, that should go like this and this like that' in my exams."
"Maybe you should have."
":smallconfused: Okay?"

I passed. So it didn't matter all that much, and now I'm quite fine in all of my subjects until now.

I doubt though that there's much more stories from me, I always was an A or B student (I get a B if I'm lazy, a C if I'm particularly lazy and an A in anything else). It's always a hit and miss for me, though I keep calm in most cases if I don't know it.


in my german GCSE mock orals i asked for Geography Icecream, thinking it was strawberry, someone who knows german post it, i cant remember either now hehe
Erdbeere is strawberry. Erdbeereis is strawberry ice cream-

[Yuki Akuma]

I'm going to hazard a guess that English isn't CSK's first language.

I... I think I understood that...

[InaVegt]

Well, 1 is the best grade in German countries anyway.

I know, it's the worst in my country though.

[Trog]

Because they don't exist?

Er... yeah. Guess that would do it.

Okay, this isn't a test answer per se but it is what I had to tell my college French teacher during a oral exam.

Nun (Yes. She was a nun. Catholic college. I'm not Catholic. Anyways...): If you miss one more class period I'm removing you from my class.

Me: Like hell you will! I PAY for this class.

Nun: *stunned look. Jaw hangs open and moves up and down of its own accord*

Me: I don't show up to class because I should have tested out of this class like I tested out of my first year of French at this school. Had I known that we would only just be starting past tense in your class I would have tried to test out of this too. But now I can't. I don't show up because I already know all this. It's nothing personal but there is no way that you can kick me out of your class when I am paying hundreds of dollars to take it because it is required for my major. I have hours and hours of art projects I need to sink most of my time into this year so I am devoting my time to that as it is my major. I'll come in and take your tests. But other than that you won't be seeing me much.

Passed with flying colors. And managed to shock a nun. :smallcool:

[LCR]

in my german GCSE mock orals i asked for Geography Icecream, thinking it was strawberry, someone who knows german post it, i cant remember either now hehe

You asked for "Erdkundeeis", while you meant "Erdbeereis"? You're funny.

[Haruki-kun]

I'd seen a few of those before........... Just missed one I had:

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[Calamity]

Spanish:

"Mi madre es bastante caja"
Translation: My mum is quite box.

Of course, caja was meant to be baja. (short)

French:
"Bon appetit" means "I'm going to eat you" according to one of my classmates. And he wonders why I spend most of the lesson laughing.

[Dr. Bath]

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That's Physics last thing on a friday, trying to explain the life of a star. So there.

@v My teacher just gave it back with a shake of the head and no mark. *sniff* I had to do it again the next week.

[Cobra_Ikari]

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That's Physics last thing on a friday, trying to explain the life of a star. So there.

...what the hell?

*giggles*

[Calamity]

Some others: (not mine)

Q: How many sides does a regular dice have?
A: 12

Q: How many sides does a coin have?
A: 1

Q: Name this 3D shape (sphere)
A: Like the Sun

The funny thing is, everyone has made an answer like these at some point or another.

Edit: Ooh bugbear, great, now I'll hit the ground harder.

[Xefas]

About 1/3rd of the way through my 8th grade school year, I began to figure out that the science teacher wasn't actually grading any of our homework. He was just (so far as I can tell) dumping them in the trash, and never factoring them into our grade. The only things that actually counted were the in-class experiments (which is fine by me, anyway...).

So, as a test to see if this were true, and determine whether I should just stop doing the homework altogether, I'd answer the last question on the homework with a stick figure giving the reader the finger. After about two weeks of this, and never getting any kind of comment or fluctuation in my grade it became rather clear.

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For my Public Speaking FINAL in 9th grade, I did absolutely nothing. We were suppose to write a 5 minute speech with the goal of convincing the listeners...of -something-. Then, we had to memorize it (no notecards or anything) and stand in front of the class, and give the speech.

Well, on my turn, I walk up in front of the class and stare like a deer in headlights for a bit and then...pull out my PSP.

The speech began with me pointing at it and saying "This, my friends...is complete and utter garbage."

B+

[Ceska]

I know, it's the worst in my country though.
I know. My point was that you could still argue you would be great in Germany with it. Besides, we'd probably be impressed with you speaking Dutch rather than correcting you for it. Also, most German speakers can understand more than a gist of Dutch anyway.


You asked for "Erdkundeeis", while you meant "Erdbeereis"? You're funny.
This is indeed awesome. I'll make sure to ask for Erdkundeeis next time I eat ice cream.

[Narmoth]

At philosophy exam (ex phil) i got a C on my written work. Since I only had to pass it, and the grade form the written work and the oral exam was put together and then divided by 2 (A = 1 and so on, with 1 being highest) I knew I couldn't fail.
So, when asked about the dualism of Decartes (dualism = viewing the world as 2 separate worlds rather than one) I don't care to draw the time out, and honestly answer:
"I have no idea. I didn't view him as a dualist philosopher"
This started an argument (with the examinator, not me, doing most of the talking) where we discussed if his philosophy could be viewed as dualistic. I got a "B" :smallwink:

Disclaimer:
Don't try this if you need the grade. The examinator was a childhood friend of my father, they vent to primary school together, and they live 2 blocks away from us, and our families frequently visit each other.


I didn't do this one, but someone I know did.

Question: "Which organ in the body serves no known function and can be removed without any ill effects from the patient?"

Answer: "The liver."

Needless to say, the teacher advised this person NOT to study medicine.

it's the brain.
Actually, you would think that it's the apendix, but resent science indicates that the apendix has some immunological functions, and should not be removed if it's not nessesary.
(In the 80s, it was customary to remove it as an extra service on surgeries that got the surgeon close to it.

[rubakhin]

When I was eleven or twelve, I transferred to a school in which the kids are taught Spanish from the age of five. I had never taken it. Hell, I could barely handle English at that point in time. And, despite studying frantically, I got a pop quiz I was destined to fail something like a week after I arrived.

So whenever I came across something I didn't know, I filled in the blanks with mat'. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mat%27) In ways that were, may I add, effing elegant. As the article says, in Russian mat' it is possible to have an entire conversation using only obscene words. For most of that test I didn't get anywhere near a clean word. Don't forget that cursing is an art form, lads.

Alas, none of the teachers spoke Russian and I just got a couple of question marks and a zero.

Once I got incredibly bored during an Economics exam. When I came across a question that read "Describe the different ways a business might fail" or something like that, I thought, "I feel sorry for the teacher. Having to read thirty dry, didactic variations on a theme. Hey ... wouldn't it be more interesting if I wrote a short story about a family of immigrants who move to Harlem and pursue the impossible dream of running a cut-price electronics store?"

Smashed ideals and suicide abound. I had to start going to the guidance counselor every day after class. Did get full marks, though.

[Sigbru]

I have few more, but since I'm from Brazil they are in portuguese... and most of the jokes you wouldn't get anyway

Anyway

What is the function of the skeleton?
answer
Destroy He-man!
It's a lot funnier in my language though since Skeletor is translated Esqueleto that means Skeleton

.......and no one know what I'm talking about, but at least I made the thread

[The_Chilli_God]

http://static.scribd.com/docs/736egzypod07v_files/image003.gif This one actually happened to me. Just sittin' in A2 Maths class last year, we had some of the Year 11's (including a friend of mine) pop in for the period, and the maths teacher (Less observant than a sack of potatoes) overlooked that another friend and I were sitting next to the year 11 friend.
After calming ourselves down because of several quiet jokes, we got to work on the question, one of those "Find X" ones.
Yep, the Year 11 friend bent right over, circled the "X" on the paper and said, "There it is."
...
That was the same period where I argued for fifteen minutes that 1000^0=0.

Also!
When looking at the spot where it says Name, put down the dictionary definition of the word 'name' instead of your own name. In fact, put down anything instead of your own name. Like Batman.

[Serpentine]

I've heard of someone who, in a multiple choice maths competition they have here every year, put down "A-C-D-C" all the way through. They got something ridiculous like in the top few percent in the state.

In a biology test, it was mentioned that octopuses have a heart in every tentacle. I answered the question, whatever it was, alright, but put in a little note next to it, "How do you take the pulse of an octopus?" My teacher seemed to find that highly amusing. He mentioned it in class but got mixed up with someone else (who was absent at the time), and I was too shy to correct him. The poor guy, when he came back, didn't know what the "cool" kids were talking about when they teased him...

[[Insert Neat Username Here]]

The result of most of these at my school:

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My Latin teacher once said "This noun means 'dream.' It's masculine--"

At this point a friend of mine interrupted: "But what if you had a feminine dream?"

[Legendary]

Forensics:

Q: If a suspect told you that he couldn't have AB+ blood because he recieved an O- blood transfusion, what would you tell him?

A: He's a moron.

Q: What chemical reacts with hydrogen peroxide to for a tealish color in the presence of blood?

A: Soylent Green?


German, during some extra credit stuff involving German culture/whatever:

Q: Who is the Chancellor of Germany?

A: Angela Ferkel (Hey, I was CLOSE. And my German teacher DID recover eventually)


World History:

Q: What effects did the French Revolution have on European politics? (essay question)

A: The same thing you claim Plato's concept of true love, Legalism, several major religions, and everything else we've covered in this class created. Communism.



And I'm supposed one of the nerds in my school.

[landadmiral]

Anyway, he wrote him a story for the whole 2 hr physics exam. Got an "E" too sohe must have got some marks.

I'm surprised that this thread has gotten this far without anyone having a problem with getting the grade "E".

The only time I got an "E" was in kindergarten where "E" stood for "excellent" in sharing, colors, or what have you.

PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE tell me that failing scores are now considered below 50!
A = 90+
B = 80+
C = 70+
In high school anything under 70 was an F
D = 60+
Not until college did they hand out D's
E = 50+
So now all you have to do is get something right half the time and you pass?!

Again, please tell me this isn't so. No wonder kids are doing worse in school - lower the expectations and students do less.

[Legendary]

There's no "E" that I'm aware of, and I'm still in school.

A= 100-90
B= 89-80
C= 79-70
D= 69-60
F= 50-0

As a general rule, tests which recieve D's and F's are retakable.

[Serpentine]

I only got an E once, and that was really crappy.
Lando, at the uni I'm in now, it goes
Pass: 50-65%
Credit: 65-75%
Distinction: 75-85%
High Distinction: 85-100%
And in some classes, a pass is classified as 40-65%
I don't see what the big deal is.

[Kallisto]

True story from my biology classes (where I am the teacher).

After studying various methods of reproduction (sexual and asexual), I asked in the exam to name one advantage and one drawback for each type of reproduction. I was expecting something along the lines of: Sexual reproduction gives diversity while asexual produces identical cells or individuals, etc.

Some students answered that sexual reproduction was fun as an advantage.

But this one girl wrote that sexual reproduction was fun... for men.

:smalleek:

[Rex Idiotarum]

All I know is that my latin Vocab tests became series of run on jokes.

[ocato]

In the south of the US, and probably other places, E is used instead of F.
^ Reword
You know the stereotype that Southerners can't read or write and are
^Do
stupid? At least we know that E comes after D. A B C D E!

EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE EEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

EEEEEEEEEIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII GOT FRIENDS IN LOW PLACES WHERE THE WHISKEY

POURS AND THE BEER CHASES---


sorry. Redneck law. TAKE ME DOWN TO THE OAAAASIS... Sorry.
^fragment, also, wrong lyrics.


Also, before you N'th'nuhs start claimin' tha' F is standin' fer Fail, what's da

A, B, C, an' D standin' fer? *scratches himself with his banjo, then spits*

Answer 'dat.

^Do what now?


Grade: F

[Legendary]

Don't worry, Rex.

My US History teacher once told the class that we were never, ever, EVER to suggest that one of the students were ever right.

My English teachers have had interesting moments with him too. "Want to hear the irony as to how he got question #5 right?"

I feel bad for the kid.

[landadmiral]

I only got an E once, and that was really crappy.
Lando, at the uni I'm in now, it goes
Pass: 50-65%
Credit: 65-75%
Distinction: 75-85%
High Distinction: 85-100%
And in some classes, a pass is classified as 40-65%
I don't see what the big deal is.

You don't see this as dumbing down? 70+ would show comprehension in the subject where as 50% is getting it right half the time. I mean, you could have a true false exam, answer true on every question without reading the material and still pass.
wow, 40%, you could just be plain stupid and not understand the subject and still "pass" - the school giving credit for someone having knowledge of the subject and not even being able to get it right half the time!! your really don't see what the big deal is?

Hi, I'm your doctor and have 50% of my surgeries succeed. Here's my diploma!
The engineer of the plane has had 60% of his aircrafts land safely due to proper working landing gear.
The mechanic for your brakes passed with 40% at the tech school, but hey, he passed. That'll $200 for the work he just finished.
The climatologist says global warming is occuring...he passed meteorology with a 40%.

again, do you not see what the problem is here? how many kids do you know in high school that can't do basic math or even spell or worse - can't read?

[Jack Squat]

Actually, at least in this part of the south, a "U" --for unsatisfactory-- is used in place of the "F."

It really threw me off the for the first couple times that I saw it.


...and since when is Indiana southern? Last I checked, it's above the Mason-Dixon.

[Rex Idiotarum]

O! History! Another class that eventually turned into run on jokes as well.

From World War I on, my friend included a very Lovecraftian Trench-foot drawing in all his works. He wasn't a good artist either, and by that I mean he sucks at drawing.

[ocato]

I went to high school in Virginia. The southernest part. The part with the confederate flag at the high school.

[Legendary]

Also, before you N'th'nuhs start claimin' tha' F is standin' fer Fail, what's da

A, B, C, an' D standin' fer?

Aced it, Bearable, Common, Dunce.

[Brickwall]

You don't see this as dumbing down? 70+ would show comprehension in the subject where as 50% is getting it right half the time. I mean, you could have a true false exam, answer true on every question without reading the material and still pass.
wow, 40%, you could just be plain stupid and not understand the subject and still "pass" - the school giving credit for someone having knowledge of the subject and not even being able to get it right half the time!! your really don't see what the big deal is?

Hi, I'm your doctor and have 50% of my surgeries succeed. Here's my diploma!
The engineer of the plane has had 60% of his aircrafts land safely due to proper working landing gear.
The mechanic for your brakes passed with 40% at the tech school, but hey, he passed. That'll $200 for the work he just finished.
The climatologist says global warming is occuring...he passed meteorology with a 40%.

again, do you not see what the problem is here? how many kids do you know in high school that can't do basic math or even spell or worse - can't read?

You know, there was a better thread for you to talk about school systems. I think you even posted in it.

Anyway, assuming we're talking about post-highschool, and as far as I know, we are, it's pretty well-agreed-upon that you only need to know 10% of what you learn in school once you're in the professional world. So not only is your analogy flawed (and pretty ridiculous), but it doesn't even apply, really.

As for high schools lowering their standards, if they have, it just means we don't have to deal with the dumb ones overstaying their welcome.

More stories of test improvisation, please?

[Jack Squat]

ah, that clears it up some...our county specifically banned "confederate" flags (actually North Virginia's battle flag) except when as a logo of clothing.

We still had people flying them from the back of trucks on the last day of school.

EDIT: and to steer back on topic, a kid in one of my HS Calc teacher's classes got so frustrated with his homework that he burned it.

He then put the ashes in a pill bottle and showed it to the teacher; he got full points because she let the class decide whether or not he deserved credit.

[Azazel]

I've refused to answer questions, arguing that it's against my religious beliefs a few times in the past... inspired by Calvin & Hobbes.
I also skipped English class a lot. There just wasn't any challenge to it...

Also, there was that one time in math class where I couldn't get any help with understanding a certain problem so while the teacher spent a good portion of her time catering to the needs of the less needy, I took it upon myself to craft small letters out of adhesive tack which I placed on a tiny platform on the top of my pencil.
The end result was a three dimensional "HELP" sign that both made my point and made the teacher snort from laughter...

[MisterSaturnine]

Although I'm not very good at learning foreign languages (well, I'm OK, but the process is physically exhausting for some reason :smallconfused:), there is one thing I enjoy in my Spanish class: looking up macabre words and writing horrific egomaniacally villainous sentences. Fortunately, my Spanish teacher has a sense of humor and is an all-around awesome guy, and I do fairly well with most of my assignments sounding akin to what people used to think DnD sessions looked like. An example (not sure how good the grammar is):

A noche, me gusta ofrecer mis enemigos a Cthulhu porque yo espero obtener las fuerzas oscuros del abismo. Translation: At night, I like to offer my enemies to Cthulhu because I hope to gain the dark powers of the abyss.

The best part? I see the counselor fairly often--but that's because I'm a peer mentor. :smallamused:

[Skippy]

Must... Resist... Urge... To... Refer... Again... To... xkcd...

[MisterSaturnine]

Must... Resist... Urge... To... Refer... Again... To... xkcd...

There is never a wrong time to refer to xkcd. Give in to temptation. No one will mind.

[Skippy]

There is never a wrong time to refer to xkcd. Give in to temptation. No one will mind.

Fine then

http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/priorities.png

[bingo_bob]

*snipped*


That reminds me of my experiences in a foreign language class.

Whenever we recieve a project, particularly if it involves working with a partner, a couple people in my French class, me included, would always try and twist the premises.

The assignment? Write a children's book (Easy, I know. It's boredom like this that drives us to do these things). Nowhere, however, does it say that it must be appropriate for children.

The result? "Un Jour en la Vie de Damien le Demon". Translated, that'd be "A Day in the Life of Damien the Demon". The very middle of the book was a two-page spread of Damien going on a murderous ramapage. When we presented it, we got numerous questions about our faith.

Good times. :smallbiggrin: .


Also, I remember hearing something from my science teacher, that was like this. I'll try and remember it.

[Midnight Son]

If I am recalling the sentence in question...

The mirror fell to the floor and it broke into many pieces.

The assignment was to make the sentence more correct by clarifying what "it" was referring to. Take into account that this was Senior English in my high school and you'll understand why I thought many in my class were morons. So, naturally, I clarified the sentence by indicating that the floor is what broke into many pieces. This was in perfect accordance with the instructions, as nowhere was it mentioned that it had to make physical sense, just grammatical...

Stupid teacher gave me only a half point and the entire class laughed at me like they thought I was the moron for not following the norm like a good little sheep boy. Have you ever made a sarcastic comment to point out an idiocy and have no one catch on to your intended meaning? The class was so damn dull, I had to do stuff like that just to keep me from slitting my wrists to alleviate the boredom.

[The_Chilli_God]

Oh, dang. I forgot about those two business studies exam papers that I did.

In the mock exam, I wrote at the top corner of the paper, "For I am a banana!"

In the external exam, I drew a diagram of a llama-donkey crossbreed, which was getting whipped and encouraged with a carrot on a stick at the same time.
The whip was supposed to represent the constriction of law on business activity, and the carrot was supposed to represent the aid of technology. But I didn't pull it off well.

Yeah, I'm already thinking about going back to re-sit that exam next year. -_-

[Icewalker]

I pointed one out to my Adv. Biology teacher last year, on a multiple choice test...I cannot remember at all what it was, but the wording on one of the problems made it so if you picked the choice along the lines of "none of the above" it was correct regardless of the actual question. I pointed it out to him, but answered the correct one.

[Jimorian]

T'wasn't me, but a clever friend in college chemistry:

Q: How do you reduce bauxite ore to produce aluminum metal?

A: Zap the bejeezus out of it.

Score: Full credit.

[Orzel]

In HS Spanish class I answered a question with.

I'm sorry, I don't know the answer. I was to busy talking to the girls next to me to pay attention in class.

Once in math I was asked to find w. I answered "2u = w"

find t. "I prefer coffee myself."

find b. "Near the honey"

Find c. South of Florida

[Gungnir]

Heh. In my 9th grade Spanish class, I did NOTHING. No homework, no classwork, ANYTHING. I just sat there and talked to my friends or read a book. Sometimes I read the actual textbook, but that was mostly to learn how to say things like "Yo tengo una fiesta en mis pantalones, y tu invitada!". Teacher didn't really bother me at all, and I just figured it was because she was such a horrible teacher.

Then parent/teacher conferences came around, and my parents told me (with a smile on their face) that she was afraid of me. Apparently she thought I was some sort of gang member, despite the fact that we were in rural Ohio. The closest thing we have to gang activity is frequent vandalism of a golf course.

[Kitya]

in a College English class we had to do a book report on, what I considered the worst piece of drivel ever put into print. Unfortunately, it was the Professor's favorite book by her favorite author. Yeesh. Was about some guy who had an Oedipus complex. I think I read maybe 3 chapters and quit. So... book report time comes up... remember... FAVORITE AUTHOR!!!
What do I do? Totally bash the book, bash the author, saying that he basically put his own personal whining into a book and how everything was everyone else's fault but his, and that he needed to grow up. I then spent the rest of the report explaining exactly WHY the Oedipus complex is misnamed.

I got something like an 89% on it... with a kudo for not being afraid to give my own opinion. The guy next to me who read the book 4 times, rewrote his report a zillion times and really worked hard on it... he got a 75% and couldn't believe I had gotten away with it. *chuckles*

[Castaras]

The class was so damn dull, I had to do stuff like that just to keep me from slitting my wrists to alleviate the boredom.

English is always boring. I've probably got loads of silly stuff I've written in English.

Although it was in biology where we were learning about what Cancer was and other such loveliness in great detail(Not good.) So I'm busy sitting at the back, tearing pages out of my book and folding them into flapping birds. Fun. :smallbiggrin:

Although Biology is funny. There were two girls from another class who snuck into our lesson and weren't discovered until right at the end of class. It was hilarious.

Otherwise...Nope. Not had anything silly to do with studying. Except for me drawing weird blobby things all over my year 9 english book...

[Darken Rahl]

I winged a speech on pet peeves, spoke about knuckle dragging jocks, and got my car window smashed in on my face for the trouble.

Passed the speech, though.

[Setra]

I winged a speech on pet peeves, spoke about knuckle dragging jocks, and got my car window smashed in on my face for the trouble.

Passed the speech, though.
Did you press charges?

[Darken Rahl]

I tried, but according to the local cops, if they charged that guy, they would be forced to charge me as well, because it was considered a fight, not an assault.

I've been told this was bull since then, but all-in-all, it was a character building experience. I look at it as such, anyhow. But the reality was, it was all crap. He was a football star, I was a nobody, he assaulted me and damaged my car (I did hit his car with mine by accident, but I was willing to be at fault, then he roid raged and smashed my window). We both got a day of in-school suspension, and that was it.

Total crap.

[BlackStaticWolf]

I tried, but according to the local cops, if they charged that guy, they would be forced to charge me as well, because it was considered a fight, not an assault.

I've been told this was bull since then, but all-in-all, it was a character building experience. I look at it as such, anyhow. But the reality was, it was all crap. He was a football star, I was a nobody, he assaulted me and damaged my car (I did hit his car with mine by accident, but I was willing to be at fault, then he roid raged and smashed my window). We both got a day of in-school suspension, and that was it.

Total crap.

First, your local cops were wrong. But then, they frequently are because by and large, cops don't actually know the law they're supposed to be enforcing. Sad, but true. However, generally in the US the cops probably couldn't have arrested him for simple assault anyway because it's usually a fairly minor misdemeanor and cops typically aren't allowed to arrest people for misdemeanors committed outside of their presense without a warrant anyway (there are exceptions, but I'm not going to go into that). Further, a charge like that is so minor that it's actually a waste of tax payer dollars to actually prosecute it.

However, you should have sued him. The guy did assault you and he did break your window. At the very least, the guy could have been forced to pay for the window.

[RTGoodman]

I'm loathe to post this link, since it has some very bad language, but I think it's hilarious. So, don't read it if you think you might be offended - you've been warned! (Also, note that THE GUY WHO WROTE THIS PASSED!) Link (http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/image/essay/1).

We did this same sort of thing back on the Quiz Bowl team back in high school. (If you don't know, Quiz Bowl is just sort of an academic trivia contest thing where each school from the county sends a team to compete in who knows the most). Well, we didn't win (because apparently we were supposed to know things about astrophysics and the like), but we did have the best answers prepared for when we didn't know the real answers.

Some of our answers included: Robotic Chuck Norris, The Potato Famine, Jesus (because he's always an answer somewhere), and Communism.

[Also, it should be noted that we all had way too much fun with just dressing up to go. As in, we each had a different silly hat (like a crown, plastic Roman army helm, a turban, a sombrero, a pirate hat, and a Peter Pan hat) and a "uniform" t-shirt with a silly nickname on the back.]

[Emrylon]

I have a friend who in his Welsh exam wrote something along the lines of 'I don't like Welsh so I'm not going to answer this question.'

I remember a couple of years back when a guy in my GCSE ICT class go the first question of a practice paper wrong. It showed a picture of a mouse and said to name it (idiotic question I know). the guy got it wrong...he wrote Mice!

[Setra]

A good 90% of my geography questions were answered with "On the map"

The other 10% were worded in a way that "On the map" would be incorrect.

[Greebo]

A friend of mine in High School gave the answer to the question, "Name Walt Whitman's poem about Abraham Lincoln" as "Strawberry Fields Forever".

The teacher wasn't amused.

This was the same guy who had lost part of his thumb in a shop accident. When asked how he injured it, he would say, totally seriously, "Safety scissors".

[Bob_the_Mighty]

I can't think of any I've done myself right now, but I do remember a sub telling my class about how had to turn in an essay for a test once and he had no idea what the topic was. He said he wrote an essay on something he actually knew about and recieved 50% for the essay.

[Raiser Blade]

"Yo tengo una fiesta en mis pantalones, y tu invitada!".



That made me laugh. For all you non spanish speaking people it means.

I'm having a party in my pants and your invited! :smalltongue:

[bluewind95]

"Yo tengo una fiesta en mis pantalones, y tu invitada!".



That made me laugh. For all you non spanish speaking people it means.

I'm having a party in my pants and your invited! :smalltongue:

Hahahah, yes! I was tempted to ask "Am I invited too?" :smalltongue:

[TheLoveInterest]

*Sigh* I just had a big test today (stupid state wide tests)and that's about how I felt on the math section..... ><

[FdL]

Stupid is the new clever, it seems. 9_9'

[expirement10K14]

Today in homeroom someone showed me his test, 66/100, 64 points for work, +2 for his 'pimpin chocalate chip cookie' he put down as the answer to one of the questions. His teacher is amazing.

Edit: Nother good one-
Math A exam question-
What is the square root of 144'
A)12
B)-12
C)72
D)-72

A student in my classes answer-
As you pay Illegal immigrants to make and look over this test I doubt you noticed both A and B are correct as the square root is plus or minus the number, good call there.
He recieved full credit and almost got the question removed.

[evisiron]

Thanks so much for posting this. Tears of laughter! :smallbiggrin:

I have heard from a friend of a friend (so its probably urban legend) in a philosophy class there was a question that was essentially:

Analyse this statement:
"This is a question"

The guy (as opposed to writing the expected 3-4 pages) wrote "this is an answer" for full marks.

A definate one was way back in Religious Education class were one friend would add speech marks to "God" in ever question and answer.

[FdL]

Well, it's somehow funny, but not so if you think these are people who don't seem to appreciate the privilege that an education is. And how valuable it is, and how there are so many people that cannot have access to it. :smallconfused:

[Pyro]

"Yo tengo una fiesta en mis pantalones, y tu invitada!".

Meh this is bothering me, and since enough people have quoted it, I feel its worth being a know-it-all-correct-you-in-an-annoying-way to satisfy my craziness. I've been taking Spanish for a short time and I am not a native speaker, but I know enough to correct it. Tu means your, not you are. Correct it would probably be tu' eres. Yeah, I'm a grammer freak, even in a foreign language.

[de-trick]

i forget the question but asked one of those annoyying math problems like johns taller than jim, jim taller than hank

i said

just measure them save time, paper, and brain cells

[Gungnir]

Meh this is bothering me, and since enough people have quoted it, I feel its worth being a know-it-all-correct-you-in-an-annoying-way to satisfy my craziness. I've been taking Spanish for a short time and I am not a native speaker, but I know enough to correct it. Tu means your, not you are. Correct it would probably be tu' eres. Yeah, I'm a grammer freak, even in a foreign language.

Thanks for the heads up, but I think the original phrase is too ingrained in my mind for it to change at this point. In my defense, I don't think my first year textbook really covered syntax that well.

[Serpentine]

Well, it's somehow funny, but not so if you think these are people who don't seem to appreciate the privilege that an education is. And how valuable it is, and how there are so many people that cannot have access to it. :smallconfused: I think it's not so much about undervaluing the education, but about taking a punt and running the risk of failing spectacularly if you're going to do it anyway. You might not be able to show you're intelligent or hardworking enough to answer the question, but you might be able to show your intelligence through wit or astuteness.

I got nothin' else. Except, for year... 11 or 12, 11 I think Chemistry we had a student teacher. She didn't know anything that we were studying, so every week before class she would go learn that day's lesson from the actual chemistry teacher and then come back to teach us. It worked out surprisingly well - she only just understood it, so she was more able to explain it at our level. The other teacher was awesome, so she was able to interrupt his class if she needed to check something.

[Da Beast]

One time my brother was taking a bio test when he got to a question asking to explain a theory on how life had formed on Earth. He wrote "stuff happened in the ocean and life appeared." Then he drew Godzilla emerging from the ocean. The teacher thought it was funny.

[bluewind95]

Meh this is bothering me, and since enough people have quoted it, I feel its worth being a know-it-all-correct-you-in-an-annoying-way to satisfy my craziness. I've been taking Spanish for a short time and I am not a native speaker, but I know enough to correct it. Tu means your, not you are. Correct it would probably be tu' eres. Yeah, I'm a grammer freak, even in a foreign language.

Actually he corrected the grammar for the translation :P

The exact, literal translation of the original Spanish statement (and I am a native speaker, so I'm pretty sure I'm correct) is
"(I) have a party in my pants and you invited"

(parentheses added to "I" because in Spanish, it's an implicit subject in the sentence provided)

You, not as in "you invited me". You as in part of "You (are) invited". The phrase is missing a part, which the one who translated added in the correction. Of course, there's also an accent missing in "tú", but by context, that's what it is :smalltongue:

"¡Tengo una fiesta en mis pantalones y tú estás invitada!" would be a gramatically correct sentence.

Incidentally, the speaker in this sentence speaks to a female, so only females are invited to this party in someone's pants.

I hope I was able to explain myself. I'm generally really bad at it. :smalleek:

Edit: Yes, you're right in the meaning of "tu". Without the accent it does mean "your".

[Brickwall]

Well, it's somehow funny, but not so if you think these are people who don't seem to appreciate the privilege that an education is. And how valuable it is, and how there are so many people that cannot have access to it. :smallconfused:

...

Oh, I'm sorry, is telling jokes to teachers considered unappreciative now? I thought it was considered a friendly gesture to tell people jokes in Western culture. Or are you bothered that someone actually didn't know a question on a test? Is that a problem for you? Because if it is, I'm afraid you'll have few people who agree that only 100% is acceptable.

[Pyro]

Actually he corrected the grammar for the translation :P

The exact, literal translation of the original Spanish statement (and I am a native speaker, so I'm pretty sure I'm correct) is
"(I) have a party in my pants and you invited"

(parentheses added to "I" because in Spanish, it's an implicit subject in the sentence provided)

You, not as in "you invited me". You as in part of "You (are) invited". The phrase is missing a part, which the one who translated added in the correction. Of course, there's also an accent missing in "tú", but by context, that's what it is :smalltongue:

"¡Tengo una fiesta en mis pantalones y tú estás invitada!" would be a gramatically correct sentence.

Incidentally, the speaker in this sentence speaks to a female, so only females are invited to this party in someone's pants.

I hope I was able to explain myself. I'm generally really bad at it. :smalleek:

Edit: Yes, you're right in the meaning of "tu". Without the accent it does mean "your".

Ah well I knew I would probably get something wrong in my correction. Gungnir you best listen to the native speakers rather than me when it comes down to it. I think I like flaunting the little Spanish I speak too much.:smalltongue:

[Gungnir]

I imagine that, in practice, the phrase gets the same response whether or not it's grammatically correct or not. That response being a kick/cold drink/medicine ball to the crotch/face/shin.

[bluewind95]

Ah well I knew I would probably get something wrong in my correction. Gungnir you best listen to the native speakers rather than me when it comes down to it. I think I like flaunting the little Spanish I speak too much.:smalltongue:

Actually, I think it's pretty neat that you could correctly distinguish "tu" from "tú". I'm aware that learning Spanish when you speak English is a lot harder than the other way around. Keep up the studies. You're doing well there. :smalltongue:


I imagine that, in practice, the phrase gets the same response whether or not it's grammatically correct or not. That response being a kick/cold drink/medicine ball to the crotch/face/shin.

Well, yeah. Generally the brain will make the grammar correction and bring the same response. :smalltongue:

[phoenixineohp]

None of these are mine, but if you search collegehumor for things tagged 'exams' it will spit out a great batch.

Some of my favourites:

http://i68.photobucket.com/albums/i2/phoenixineohp/Comedy%20Pictures/collegehumor85bc695f957ae237f58d39f.jpg
http://i68.photobucket.com/albums/i2/phoenixineohp/Comedy%20Pictures/collegehumor367499de7d16aeda97212fd.jpg
http://i68.photobucket.com/albums/i2/phoenixineohp/Comedy%20Pictures/collegehumor97894ca0ffe0c07d9d30613.jpg


Personally I have written an apology to the marker and wished them a happy holiday as my final answer for a written calculus question. My worst subject's final exam, at 8:30 in the morning, on a Saturday... they are lucky that I was polite and pleasant in the 'answer'.

For my mammalogy lab exam, where we had to id skulls, I drew stick figure stabbed with the skull of one species that was very sharp and pointy, lying in a pool of blood. It was my favourite skull in the whole class and I even blanked on it. :smallsigh:

[Jack Squat]

Just remembered one from my Chem class. Every so often, I'd forget to do my homework, not that big of a deal, as each assignment was only worth 3 points. So when my teacher came around to check wheter or not we did it, I'd show him a funny picture...I'd get a point for that; better than a zero anyways.

[Bitzeralisis]

These look like what a certain classmate of mines would do.

Twice this year he has written an entire essay for two freebie questions. One was on why [insert number of characters here] wouldn't win in a slushie-eating contest and the other was about why the poem that starts with "Roses are red, violets are blue..." is technically incorrect.

Not all roses are red.

And violet does not equal blue.

These two simple facts so stretched out that it took a half page to write. :smalleek:

[DarkLightDragon]

Heheheh... I totally need to do that on a test or so next year. In my area year 11s finish school tomorrow (1 MORE DAY OMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMG!) so I won't be able to "improvise" on any this year.

Anyway... I had a maths test today. Didn't do any major improvising, but...

Q: What is a scale diagram?
A: A diagram of something drawn using a scale...

I included the triple dot, by the way.

Then I was unable to do most of the test because I didn't have a ruler and the protractor I burrowed had whiteout on it. And it just happened to stop me from being able to see where I needed. Typical. I wrote a rant about people insulting my intelligence and how I couldn't do the test because of no ruler and a crappy protractor.

I wonder how bad I'll do at that. Maths is my worst subject. I hate maths. I hate the maths teacher. Blah.

[MBV]

Here's what I did on a music test a couple of years back:

what song did some bloke wrote for his son that fell out of a window?

Correct answer: tears in heaven, me: always look on the bright side of life

[Wraith]

My best stories come from History classes, and not just because I have a BA in it. There's just something weird about History Tutors that lets you get away with murder....

The first story will cause shock and awe: In my first year, I actually scored "0" in a 2000 word essay, not because it was a bad essay but because it went so wildly off topic and involved so many strange concepts that my Tutor gave up reading it halfway through.

The title was something along the lines of "Could the peasant classes in medieval England be considered to be better off than any other place or period until the modern era? Give examples for your reasoning". The answer was something along the lines of "Maybe, depending on how highly you value the urbanization of the 19th Century".

My answer included cavemen, Pyramids and Aztec human sacrifice - which, to be fair, all made perfect sense in context but wasn't on the curriculum, so...

On a brighter note, the last exam I sat before collecting my degree was again Medieval History, but it was a particular subject to which I enjoyed and had an affinity for. As such, I finished the 2 questions with 10 minutes to spare, and as I sat waiting to leave I was struck my inspiration.

The question I had just answered asked me to explain the social and economic significance of location when it came to burying someone in a church or graveyard. The answer was 'the closer you are to the altar, the more important and/or highly regarded you were', which I got down easily - the "P.S." at the end was the fun part:


"The exception to the usual hierarchy of burial customs was made for the victims of the local Serial Killer, who would always be buried face down in a shallow grave outside the front doors of the church. That way, when the Serial Killer came to the Church for absolution the following week, he would always have somewhere to park his bicycle without it falling over."

I never found out what my Tutor's response was to that, although he grinned at me when I collected my award and waved to him a week later. :smallsmile:

[Narmoth]

Well, my little sister had a biology test in what would equal to junior high. The test was about the reproductive system, and she managed to write "the male ovaries" about the testicles :smallsmile:

[karmuno]

http://content38379.clipmarks.com/image_cache/Anique%20Akhtar/512/2DECBB42-DD9C-4686-BC8B-34DF8A9D1A60.gif


Technically speaking, this limit does not exist, as the limit from the right is different from the limit from the left. In the latter case, the answer would be -infinity.

Anyway, on topic, I usually don't have much opportunity to improvise on tests. Once, after finishing a Physics test at the end of a hectic week, I drew a diagram on the back of a hanging man with values given for his height while on the chair and his final height, requesting the teacher to determine the time elapsed between the two heights.

Also, on most of my AP US History FRQs and other written work, if I can't find a suitable conclusion, I write "God bless America" at the end. This is usually ironic, as it follows statements such as, "'The Era of the Common Man' is not an accurate label for this period of history, as Jackson's policies did not increase individual liberties, and in fact many of his economic and political reforms stood in stark contrast to the needs of the people."

Mostly, though, my humor is focused outside of actual assignments, such as my refrain of "I do" any time my music theory teacher says that "nobody uses [insert ridiculous musical concept here]" Plus one time I wrote a paper about exponential functions titled "Exponential Decay: The Threat Is Real." I have to go back and read that paper one of these days.

[Vella_Malachite]

One time on a research assignment, me and my friend had to describe the process of flocculation. Our answer went something like this:

[QUOTE]You add the bleach to the BAD, EVIL sewage, separating the liquid from the SMELLY, BAD, EVIL floc, which forms into AWFUL, SMELLY, BAD, EVIL, BAD, SMELLY balls and can then be filtered out, leaving the slightly purer water behind.[QUOTE]

Luckily, we had a very understanding Science teacher...:smallwink: