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  1. 344302's Avatar
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    Re: Whats the most ridiculous statement you have ever put in a exam?
    In sociology gcse they asked why there is an increase in extended families .. I said grannies move in with their daughters because they can cook better ..
  2. Miracle Day's Avatar
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    Re: Whats the most ridiculous statement you have ever put in a exam?
    (Original post by Xero Xenith)
    In RE I ended all long-answer questions with a paragraph about how my beliefs - that the Flying Spaghetti Monster created the universe - conflict with all major religions.
    What did you get? haha
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    Re: Whats the most ridiculous statement you have ever put in a exam?
    (Original post by antihero)
    "I wanna be the very best.
    Like no one ever was.
    To catch them is my real quest,
    To train them is my cause... etc"

    To a general studies exam in AS.
    NO WAY! LOOOOOOOL

    In my TOEFL exam I had to read an excerpt or something, and since the exams was like 4 hours long, I spaced out. I had to summarize the excerpt in like 1 minute, something about possums, and since I spaced out I just spoke for like 40 seconds. The next 15 seconds was just awkward silence, then I used the last 5 seconds to say: "And that's the way it is."

    I thought: "Kill me now."
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    not ridiculous but my moment of rebellion came in this form

    "...you're not reading this are you, Mr ----"
    plopped that in an essay question

    in gcse mocks (wish i was more bad ass )
    and when i got my paper back he didn't even notice
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    Re: Whats the most ridiculous statement you have ever put in a exam?
    (Original post by BramsSTFU)
    In General Studies at college I didn't answer the questions I just wrote about how my mother is a lunatic, then I wrote some questions of my own and put my email, in case the person marking my paper wanted to answer them. Which they didn't.
    I really really REALLY hope this is true. if it is you're probably my favourite person ever.
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    Re: Whats the most ridiculous statement you have ever put in a exam?
    GCSE Religious Studies: we were asked to discuss whether Britain was a secular society. You can guess what was written.
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    Re: Whats the most ridiculous statement you have ever put in a exam?
    For a first year Uni exam I had a complete mind blank on what IAEA stood for so put down that it was the International Agency for the Evidence of Aliens. Needless to say I didn't get the mark but did get a note on the paper from the marker saying that it was funny, and had brightened up some very dull marking
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    Re: Whats the most ridiculous statement you have ever put in a exam?
    (Original post by Miracle Day)
    What did you get? haha
    An A* the examiners must have been Pastafarians
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    Re: Whats the most ridiculous statement you have ever put in a exam?
    I wrote about Charlie Sheen in my English exam; got an A* for it though so WINNING.

    My friend wrote about Martin Luther King being an actual king... He failed.
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    Re: Whats the most ridiculous statement you have ever put in a exam?
    "Gary Numan" when I had to name a molecule in an A2 Chemistry exam.
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    Re: Whats the most ridiculous statement you have ever put in a exam?
    GCSE English language, it asked me to 'inform' the examiner of my plans for next year. I proceeded to explain my life ambitions and I even wrote, "I've been told I can get at least 2 A*s at A-level, I consider myself gifted". Yeah, I was a ****er. Got an A though (yn).
    Last edited by Revd. Mike; 01-01-2012 at 16:29. Reason: Swear filter
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    Re: Whats the most ridiculous statement you have ever put in a exam?
    I have:

    Made up random statistics for My GCSE Religious Studies paper

    But still got an A (2 marks off an A* :rant: **** YOU EDEXCEL! )
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    Re: Whats the most ridiculous statement you have ever put in a exam?
    This is from my GCSE Business Coursework but...

    I somehow ended up writing 'the customers will be made to serve the customers'

    And in class I autocorrected every 'a' to 'chicken'; and forgot to delete all the... chickens. No doubt my teacher had a big red circle with 'What!?' on where I'd written 'the business will make chicken profit'
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    Re: Whats the most ridiculous statement you have ever put in a exam?
    I can't remember exactly what I put but I remember comparing of mice and men to a toilet in my GCSE English lit exam.

    I got an A.
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    Re: Whats the most ridiculous statement you have ever put in a exam?
    (Original post by mad.shell)
    NO WAY! LOOOOOOOL

    In my TOEFL exam I had to read an excerpt or something, and since the exams was like 4 hours long, I spaced out. I had to summarize the excerpt in like 1 minute, something about possums, and since I spaced out I just spoke for like 40 seconds. The next 15 seconds was just awkward silence, then I used the last 5 seconds to say: "And that's the way it is."

    I thought: "Kill me now."
    LMFAO!!! Total Forrest Gump moment xD love it.

    I wish my exams would ask me about possums. They seem like a lot more fun than immunohistological sections :/
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    Re: Whats the most ridiculous statement you have ever put in a exam?
    MUN is the proper place for ridicule.

    My most ridiculous answers are always when I subtly (unprovably but still perceptibly) imply shockingly controversial things. I can't think of any examples.
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    Re: Whats the most ridiculous statement you have ever put in a exam?
    On one of the A* Maths question for my GCSE's I put E=MC2
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    Re: Whats the most ridiculous statement you have ever put in a exam?
    Uhm, my A2 Spanish mock was passed around the teachers due to the 'hilarity'
    In the research part, I was not expecting the question (we'd only just started our research phase, so I wrote about how if global warming continues, then Cuba will become completely flooded and cease to exist.
    I also wrote all about how I wished I was Winston Churchill...

    And in a GCSE physics exam I answered "Why does Saturn have rings?" with: "On the 4th day, God made Saturn, and he liked it, so he put a ring on it."

    Physics was never my strong point...
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    Re: Whats the most ridiculous statement you have ever put in a exam?
    Crossed out the 20-something mark essay question at the end of my GCSE food technology exam (which was about eggs) and wrote above the question "Write a pretty song about eggs"

    And then I wrote the song that me and Laura devised in our food tech lessons:

    Uptown Egg,
    She's been living in a hard boiled shell
    Bet she never met a caged-raised guy
    Bet her henny never told her why
    That hens could fly

    and then she gooooooees in the pan,
    and she fry-yyy-yyyy's
    I bet that's when she meets
    her caged-raised guy

    I said she looked good fried,
    then i got swallowed by Hank and died
    With the Uptown Egg!
    My uptown Eeeeeeg
    You know i've been eaten with an
    Uptown egg,
    My uptowwwwwnnnn egggggg...
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    Re: Whats the most ridiculous statement you have ever put in a exam?
    English language GCSE = basing everything around +44 quote... and getting full marks. I don't even know how it happened...

    RE mock exam, question was something along the lines of: "why might a Muslim not agree with deforestation?"
    Soo I regurgitated the passages I'd remembered: The prophet said "If you kill anything larger than a sparrow without just cause, then Allah will hold you responsible." A tree is larger than a sparrow and so Muslims may not agree with deforestation, as they try to follow his teachings.

    I got marks for this... And a massive smiley face, saying that it was a great new angle..
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