What's the silliest exam mistake you've ever made?

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Reply 20

username1495504

"Je suis dans la table"

I am in the table

Reply 21

idlikeadietwater

Original post by _princessxox

Gcse biology mock
"name an example of a transgenic organism"
I guessed and put "Caitlyn Jenner"
I've never lived that down :smile:

Haha im dying :giggle:

Reply 22

Mil23333

In an in class test (so not really important) all about DNA replication and genes etc I wrote mitochondria every time instead of chromosomes!!! Literally don't know what I was thinking 😅😅😅

Reply 23

Governah

Original post by surina16

26/7 = 4 and 2/7

(MEI C1 2017 rhombus q if u can relate lol)

:frown:

(formed basis of the whole question pretty much)

Stupidest thing ever done by MEI, a RHOMBUS???????? I was expecting a circle or atleast a triangle, not a RHOMUBS LIKE WTF.

Reply 24

Konanabanana

Original post by Fox Corner

Written the wrong name? Farted in the exam hall? Written answers for the wrong subject?

I once was stressed I called the invigilator mum :doh:

didn't really help me focus on my exam!!

What's the silliest mistake you've ever made in an exam?

I answered Question 6 in question 5 box and question 5 in question 6 box. 1 was 5 marks and the other was 6 marks so they were about similar lengths, only realised after the exam but still did well in the exam so they either realised or i did well elsewhere.

Reply 25

SMNFOOT

Mine was saying pro-life people were for abortion. It was only 3 marks but in Religious studies, where 69/76 (technically 69/72) is an A*, it is a little crushing.

Reply 26

username2371841

Original post by asinghj

A stupid mistake i did just today was not changing my calculator to radians from degrees...

oh shoot, how did you find the paper? (c2 edexcel?)

our math teacher reminded us before the exam that if we get a dodgy answer, check degrees or radians

Reply 27

BobBobson

I wrote 2 was a prime number and in the very next line wrote 2 wasn't a prime number during a proof of a maths problem.

Reply 28

visi0nary

Original post by E_M_M_I_E

Just because I'm 4'10" doesn't make me any less of a human!! It doesn't make Pluto any less of a planet either! #SolidarityForPluto

If Pluto was considered a planet for its size then we'd have 13-14 total planets.

Reply 29

Abistudyhard

I wrote the wrong question numbers in my answer booklets, but luckily 5 mins after the exam i realised and managed to go back and asked to change them, thankfully.

Reply 30

Reshyna

I have the same problem
I used to misread 10 as 1 or 0
And also misread the decimal points

Reply 31

Sint

Original post by 1 8 13 20 42

The silliest and perhaps most crucial was made in a Cambridge admissions test on interview day. It consisted of two questions; the first was number theory, the second mechanics. I got basically nowhere in the first question but I thought I might be okay as I managed a full solution in the second question. Then when it came to the interview where we discussed this, it turned out I had modeled the motion of a falling particle under gravity as linear rather than parabolic, greatly trivializing the derivation of a certain identity.

oh goddamit i know how you feel, i am always trivialising my parabolic derivations fml

Reply 32

.Iqra.

Original post by Dominoes

Thought GCSE exams meant something

They don't?
Am I wasting my time?

Reply 33

dodgymoney

That's not worse than misreading the question and writing an answer based on a completely different character

Reply 34

clumsyorange

I once wrote orgasm instead of organism in a biology mock.
Mortifying.

Reply 35

DFranklin

Original post by BobBobson

I wrote 2 was a prime number and in the very next line wrote 2 wasn't a prime number during a proof of a maths problem.

I'm sure that someone has at least once confused themselves by saying that 2 is a very odd prime number because it's the only prime number that isn't odd...

Reply 36

DFranklin

Silliest mistake I ever made was in a primary school English exam (comprehension test) to determine streaming. I didn't realise there were questions on the other side of the paper, so did rather a lot worse than I should have done. Took about 6 months to catch that up (although given it was primary school the whole thing was pretty meaningless anyhow).

Reply 37

Michael_Fishy

GCSE AQA Geography 2015, I'd gotten a C in my course work, so I needed to do well in the exams to pull my grade up, i finished 30 miniutes early. Got out of the exam, and a friend asked me about an 8 mark question that I hadn't even heard of.

Turns out there were 8 marks on the back cover of the exam that I hadn't seen, and completly missed. Was so mad with myself, ended up getting a B overall, and 4A* to A in total. If I'd just done that question I would have managed 5A*-A, would have gotten on sutton trust programs, pathways to law and other summer schools. Would have given me the extra edge i needed in my uni application.
I still hate myself for that, but on the bright side i always check the back page now