Whats the most ridiculous statement you have ever put in a exam?

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  1. mcs31's Avatar
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    Re: Whats the most ridiculous statement you have ever put in a exam?
    In my English GCSE mock I ranted for the entire thing about how terrible Matt Cardle was and how his single was desecrating Many Of Horror by Biffy Clyro.
    Highest marks in the year and the teacher read it to the class.

    Also in my last history exam I said something like "Margret Thatcher was just trying to make a quick buck". Yay words.

    OH ALSO: In another English paper I wrote a short story based on a collection of Arctic Moneys lyrics. Ahhh GCSEs :')
    Last edited by mcs31; 27-05-2012 at 16:01.
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    Re: Whats the most ridiculous statement you have ever put in a exam?
    (Original post by Hannahmeg)
    In a maths mock-
    Where it says "do not write outside the box" I wrote OK.
    Outside the box.
    Ha, I always do things like that.

    'There are no questions on this page' -> 'Why not?'
    'There is no text on this page' -> ':confused:'


    :rolleyes:
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    Re: Whats the most ridiculous statement you have ever put in a exam?
    In an AS Physics exam on Friday: "Turn the ammeter off and on again"
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    In a physics question about pressure and something about breathing idk, "Because there would be too much pressure and the mask would explode in her face"
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    Re: Whats the most ridiculous statement you have ever put in a exam?
    My AS Eng Lit exam the other week asked me about the use of climaxes in three texts I'd studied.

    They shouldn't put questions like that in if they don't want inappropriate answers.
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    In my PE standard grade the question was something like:

    (a) What do you do to get your head in the right place before a game?
    and then
    (b) How does this make you calm?

    for (a) i wrote about how i think about god and how he encourages me to do well
    and (b) i wrote that he makes my mind and body feel at ease with each other

    You were ment to say - i think about my role in the game.

    I had no clue what to write so i this answer came about. (Note - I am not at all religious in any way shape or form, I just hope my examiner is though! ):P
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    I also remember having to sit a RE test about ethical decisions and instead discussing why a yum-yum is better than a tortilla. I failed.
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    Re: Whats the most ridiculous statement you have ever put in a exam?
    Not exactly exam-based, but it is my MUN resolution, nonetheless.

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    I couldn't get anyone to co-sponsor me, so I put in alternate names for my own country to look like I did have co-sponsors, AKA one country transformed into many. The chairs were too lazy to check through it
    Needless to say, debating in favour of it was fun "Terrorism is bad, and what better deterrent for would-be terrorists could you have than sexual harassment?" Or something along those lines. Good times.
    Last edited by Tizoxic; 27-05-2012 at 17:34.
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    Not really a statement , more of an answer in a biology GCSE. The question was something like :Olaf the Norwegian farmer lives 110 km from the sea, he doesn't want to use fish in his fertiliser ,why is this? Me being an idiot put " so it didn't attract sea animals like seagulls" when in reality the answer was it would be expensive to transport the fish . I came out of the exam and almost died when I realised what I actually put, but it gave everyone else a laugh
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    English mock - I wrote about my favourite video game. My teacher wanted me to read it out but I already threw it away! :crying:
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    IN GCSE maths mock the question asked to express 84 as a product of prime factors.
    I spent the entire hour drawing a massive factory entitled prime factors then a delivery guy loading a box with 84 on it into his truck. He then drove it to Asda where it was sold as 84 by prime factors "the must have perfume for the summer"
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    AS Citizenship Studies Unit 2

    Q was something along the lines of "Make a case for or against the notion that all 16-year-olds should do community voluntary work". I chose to argue against the statement, and ranted for half a page that the statement was inherently flawed in that the work would no longer be voluntary, before likening the request made to encouraging a return of child slave labour.

    As our college only makes us do the AS (over two years) but I'm doing the A2 aswell this year, I was pretty much the only one taking it seriously... ha
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    GCSE R.E
    Q.Why is the pope important to catholics?
    My answer: The pope holds great power for catholics, and as spiderman says, with great power comes great responsibility.
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    Re: Whats the most ridiculous statement you have ever put in a exam?
    (Original post by kennedy7697)
    gcse r.e
    q.why is the pope important to catholics?
    My answer: The pope holds great power for catholics, and as spiderman says, with great power comes great responsibility.
    looooooool!
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    GCSE Christian Ethics from last week:

    Question was on Christian views of contraception:

    "Roman catholics only belive in natural contraception (When couples pick best times to do hanky panky)."

    I've always wanted to write that phrase in a test.
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    Right at the end of my Higher Sociology paper, I wrote "Marxism makes me want to eat my own face."

    Still got an A. LOLWUT?
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    Re: Whats the most ridiculous statement you have ever put in a exam?
    In General studies, me and a group of my mates tend to have a competition, we write a list of random words/in-jokes, assign them points, and then see who can get in the most. I've won every time except one, using such phrases as writing 'FINDLAY IS THE LIZARD KING' in block capitals, to talking about dinosaurs running the Luftwaffe. And I got an A* overall! In my experience, the secret is to write a half-decent, conventional essay/answer, then twist random rubbish into crazy analogies/metaphors etc. The only time I lost the contest was when a friend wrote an entire paper in the form of an episode of a sitcom we made up (alastair and Jitterskull - http://owlpudding.tumblr.com/).
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    Re: Whats the most ridiculous statement you have ever put in a exam?
    Question:
    Explain why are the leaves placed in alcohol?

    Answer:
    To get drunk.
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    Re: Whats the most ridiculous statement you have ever put in a exam?
    In some of my early Philosophy mocks I went off on some arguements, at one point somehow relating homosexuality to Locke's and Humes idea that all knowledge comes from experience.

    If the poem "My dad did" came up in my english GCSE then I would have actually written as an answer "me up the arse" since I had nothing on that poem as it was the most stupid, incoherent, logically flawed and unrealistic piece of writing ever created.

    I have to take General Studies at A level so I will think of something brilliant for that. It will probably involve seeing how far off topic I can go and then bring it back again. My aim will also be to make the examiner at least chuckle.
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