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Geography GCSE this year, question asked how vegetation had adapted to survive in a desert, i wrote a whole paragraph about the Fennec Fox before realising that it wasn't vegetation :s-smilie:

Reply 62

SunnyBoys

In the biology exam I accidently put alcahol as an illegal drug without actually reading the question..
:colonhash:

Reply 63

Kevin De Bruyne

My GCSE Geography exam, a hot summer's day in 2012.

The question was: 'Write about a big change in your area and how it has affected your area (3 marks)'.

Mind went blank.

It was a cue to talk about the Olympics.

I made something up about parks.

Ended up with 359/400 for Geography (89.75%).

Reply 64

kb12345

i didnt write my final answer in the answer box

2 x -2 = -2

Once in a 3 hour exam I messed up my timings so that I thought I was almost out of time and rushed to finish. Finished that exam in 1 and a half hours. Moral of the story: learn to read analogue clocks.

Reply 67

queenofswords

Called the examiner 'mum'. :colondollar:

Spoiler

Reply 68

Loyale

Writing a ten mark essay on duty of care in law then realising that it was between the wrong people....10 marks gone...deffo reading questions 3 times now

Reply 69

99joey

Original post by 11ahf

GCSE OCR computing, 270UMS out of a total 300UMS for the A*.

Hahahah ahhh well at least it wasn't A-level than, would have been a lot more annoying however I can understand your pain haha :P

Reply 70

GoodGirlFaith

To be honest, any of the rubbish I've made up for wjec poetry, especially today. Genuinely didn't realise it was about prostitution.
In my philosophy exam, the first question was 'give one teaching about marriage' my mind went totally blank.
Also, in my maths mock i didn't have a compass and decided to draw the loci question freehand... got 3/3 and my best friend, who did it properly, only got 2 xD

Reply 71

AfcFob

Original post by Loyale

Writing a ten mark essay on duty of care in law then realising that it was between the wrong people....10 marks gone...deffo reading questions 3 times now

Ouch... I did something similar in Law01 when I wrote about the Practice statement for one question on Precedent, then moved onto the next question and wrote half of the next answer then had to go back when I realised the PS question also asked about distinguishing :s-smilie:

Reply 72

11ahf

Original post by 99joey

Hahahah ahhh well at least it wasn't A-level than, would have been a lot more annoying however I can understand your pain haha :P

Definitely would have been worse had it been A level - but I was more annoyed at the unfair marking and how some markers would have been more lenient than the actual grade. It being so tantalisingly close to the boundary and over such a silly thing made it so frustrating though.

hannah has -9 sweets

Today, in economics, I wrote my ten mark question as if it was the 25 mark essay... Totally over killed it and wasted loads of time >.>

Reply 75

Loyale

Original post by AfcFob

At least you realised, i finished LAW02 ten mins early sitting there like an idiot....

Reply 76

roadmanchasin£

Original post by Pigeon26

In yesterday's Religious Studies exam I chose the wrong question and managed to answer a 27 mark part to my paper that we hadn't studied :s-smilie:

lmaoo aqa rs right? Every year some don does that

Reply 77

AfcFob

Original post by Loyale

At least you realised, i finished LAW02 ten mins early sitting there like an idiot....

Had to rush Crim Courts though because it took me like 10 mins extra to finish precedent so I didn't get all the marks I was capable of

Reply 78

abitpissy

Posting a question on Tsr asking for help on a physics question.
I didn't understand why if the resistance is 0, the voltage is 0 when V=IR :colondollar:

Reply 79

RoseTiger1

This isn't a mistake exactly. In GCSE two years ago in physics it asked to name a transformer. My mind went blank so I wrote Optimus Prime.