Most embarrassing/stupid exam mistake you've made?

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kishette

Answered Source A instead of Source C for the History Paper 1 AS this year – 10 marks down the drain!

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buttmasher69

I wrote 2*2=2 in one of my further maths exam.... this is legit yo i lost 4 marks

Reply 202

acvhk0

friend of mine missed out section 2 of physics exam (worth 90 marks) and only diod section 1 (20 marks) for the prelim

Reply 203

OmarAli_O98

In my A-level Chemistry Paper 5, we had to calculate a gradient that's equivalent to rate. Easy peasy, right? Guess not. Somehow I got -2680, went over it like 5 times and still got same answer. Then my mind just went 'nooo way that's right'. Did some stupid overthinking and divided by 1000 to get it down to -2.68 for a reason which I don't even know. After the exam, all of my mates got this -2680 thing too but just left it there...

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NP2803

In the aqa igcse biology paper 1 last week there was a 5 mark question on describing how to use quadrats. They had a picture of quadrats and other equipment so I thought that they were trying to trick me so I didn't even write about quadrats and instead I wrote some random crap that is probably gonna get me no marks. Stupid I know!!!

Reply 205

BTAnonymous

6x + 45 = 555
6x = 1000

Just did it in a practice paper in maths today. I asked my teacher why x is a decimal (it shouldn't be in the context of the question) and they just laughed.

(edited 7 years ago)

Reply 206

polarising

Thought a hexagon had 5 sides. Did a whole 6-mark shape-based question thinking this was true.

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Swimetti

i have a very annoying habit of routinely doing 2*3=5 :angry:

i lost 8 marks on a maths mock for that one last week

Reply 208

S.G.

Year 9 geography. Said Bangladesh was a More economically developed country than USA.

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shawtyb

not turn up for mock exams or legit exams

still got into uni

oh yeaaaa :cool:

Reply 210

bethanyjx

I wrote "orgasm" instead of "organism" oops..:/

Reply 211

thenextchemist

I went on Monday to school thinking it was the history exam panicking
Everyone started laughing at me because it wasn't on Monday, it's actually tomorrow
LOL

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Anmol_.

Original post by BTREDinnick

But what if you are called Maria?

Well yes that would've been an escape but I'm not called Maria unfortunately :colonhash:

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Bayron

Quadratic equations.... ax^2 + bx + c. Forgot the = 0. Cost me a mark which pushed me into the A boundary in the mock from an A*... Never again. :angry:

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AstroNandos

In my GCSE English lit exam I did the wrong section so basically every poem or whatever I was writing about was unseen and I hadn't studied at all

tbh I didn't pay attention for the entire year, I had no idea what we were studying :biggrin:

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Ye Olde Pootis

In my Geography exam, there's 8 30-mark sections on different topics. We're supposed to answer the questions for the 4 topics we've learned. Someone in my class attempted to answer all 8 sections and she was then really annoyed that she didn't know half of the answers and ran out of time even though she'd revised. She didn't make that mistake again in this year's resit! (I think)

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PolarisVega

I spent a good 10 minutes tryna work out a side they had already given me in maths, then I realised the mistake and overall it took me like 15 minutes

Reply 217

11ahf

Wrote "SOHCAHTOA" instead of "Krakatoa" in the geography exam yesterday. :redface:

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username2295565

I had just finished one of my GCSE exams (2012), and they were letting rows of people out in "half rows" (from the back half of the line, then the front half) as in half of the row went, whilst half stayed til the half-line of people had gone.
I was one person below the half line, but thought (as I wasn't concentrating) that the whole line had been let go.

So I stood up, realising that the person behind me (with no one behind her) had not stood up, but then it was too late.
I couldn't sit back down and face humiliation, so I kept walking for my bag, at the back of the hall.

EVERYONE was looking, and I just grabbed my bag and left. It was SO EMBARRASSING.