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06 Sep 2009, 1:30 am

Here is a collection of some of the worst exam answers from the last academic year. Sit back and enjoy.

I am unsure which is the best of the wrong answers, many of them are interesting.

http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/S ... 407920&c=2


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06 Sep 2009, 3:19 am

That's quite amusing! I was so bored during a RE exam (which I didn't have a clue about) that I answered the question 'why did Jesus ride in to Bethlehem on a donkey'= 'because he felt like it'. Needless to say I kind of failed that one...


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06 Sep 2009, 10:51 am

Aren't most 'exam howlers' urban legends?

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why did Jesus ride in to Bethlehem on a donkey

Either that's a trick question (with Jesus being in Mary's uterus at the time) or you mean Jerusalem.


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06 Sep 2009, 11:02 am

Jellybean wrote:
That's quite amusing! I was so bored during a RE exam (which I didn't have a clue about) that I answered the question 'why did Jesus ride in to Bethlehem on a donkey'= 'because he felt like it'. Needless to say I kind of failed that one...
How could you be that bored??? All you had to say was, "because His ancestor David rode into Jerusalem (I assume that was the actual question) on a donkey, and it was prophesied that the Messiah would ride in on a donkey."

If the question was to do with Jesus on a donkey on the way to Bethlehem... that was before He was actually born. And the answer would be that the Messiah had to be born in Bethlehem, as prophesied by Michah... and that riding in on a donkey connotated humility, rather than vainglorious pride and triumph.

Either you had the WORST EVER religious education teacher (and I doubt that, because I had him) or you weren't even trying.

Sheesh...

(Mind you... I didn't just fail my exams, I got expelled from Catholic school. So who am I to grumble!)



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06 Sep 2009, 12:35 pm

I'd love to read the paper on the gnomes :lol:



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06 Sep 2009, 1:10 pm

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"The fact that there are no automobiles or electricity in the film did not shake one student's belief that the film was a recent documentary. He explained that he had never been to France and assumed it was just a very backward place," Professor Null said.

:lol:

I love writing jokes on questions that I have no idea what the answer is and that I can't guess something. EX: bonus point question Who won the Nobel Prize in economics this year ? I put my teacher's name with a question mark. He found it funny :)



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08 Sep 2009, 2:20 am

did he give u a bonus point?



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08 Sep 2009, 9:32 am

not even :(



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09 Sep 2009, 2:41 pm

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Either that's a trick question (with Jesus being in Mary's uterus at the time) or you mean Jerusalem.


:lol: Whoops... I really wasn't concentrating in RE was I?

Plus I'd given up on life at this point thanks to bullies. That's why I wrote such crap in my RE paper...


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09 Sep 2009, 3:28 pm

Jellybean wrote:
That's quite amusing! I was so bored during a RE exam (which I didn't have a clue about) that I answered the question 'why did Jesus ride in to Bethlehem on a donkey'= 'because he felt like it'. Needless to say I kind of failed that one...


I would say the qestuion is more stupid than the answer, since to my knowledge Jesus never drove into Bethlehem.

By the way, I found the comments amusing indeed.



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10 Sep 2009, 12:58 pm

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I would say the qestuion is more stupid than the answer, since to my knowledge Jesus never drove into Bethlehem.


I probably didn't quote the question correctly! It was a heck of a long time ago!


Plus I didn't listen in RE...


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10 Sep 2009, 1:02 pm

(congratulations on 1000 posts, JB :) )

Those exam answers are hilarious. :lol:

I wish I had some funny examples of my own to add, but I don't believe I've ever answered stupidly on an exam, sorry!


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10 Sep 2009, 2:47 pm

Congrats, Jellybean, on 1,000 posts!


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10 Sep 2009, 4:46 pm

I thought he rode in on a womb...;)



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11 Sep 2009, 5:56 pm

The best I ever heard was read aloud to the class after the History exam was marked. The question was "write a paragraph with the heading 'Nagasaki and Hiroshima have disappeared!' "

Whoever it was clearly just gave up, and wrote an elaborate newspaper-style article about two Japanese businessmen who vanished in suspicious circumstances on a deserted road.



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11 Sep 2009, 7:23 pm

Duzzle wrote:
The best I ever heard was read aloud to the class after the History exam was marked. The question was "write a paragraph with the heading 'Nagasaki and Hiroshima have disappeared!' "

Whoever it was clearly just gave up, and wrote an elaborate newspaper-style article about two Japanese businessmen who vanished in suspicious circumstances on a deserted road.

LOL