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What's the stupidest answer you've given on an exam question?

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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,421 ✭✭✭major bill


    A friend of mine in Junior cert woodwork was asked to name two types of wood

    His answer was Keith Wood and Tiger Woods


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,537 ✭✭✭KKkitty


    I stupidly said lead would float in water for a Junior Cert science mock exam.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,411 ✭✭✭✭rainbowtrout


    A few years ago there was a quetions on the ag science mock asking why lime was spread on soil. The answer I was hoping to get from my students was to raise pH. The answer one of my students gave me was 'Lime is like a Class A drug for earthworms. It sends them loopy'.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,191 ✭✭✭✭Shanotheslayer


    whupdedo wrote: »
    I just knew some eejit would comment on it :pac:

    Your response should have been "Well whupppppdedoooooo".


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 106 ✭✭35cent


    Mine was in the 2nd paper of the Irish exam in my Leaving Cert. I had no idea what the question meant. I saw the word "phictiúr" and just drew a picture of the hill with the sun smiling down on it.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,097 ✭✭✭kiffer


    KKkitty wrote: »
    I stupidly said lead would float in water for a Junior Cert science mock exam.

    It would if you made a thin sheet of it into a boat shape... tell me you drew a little picture of a lead boat!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 71 ✭✭Burkie94


    I remember for my Junior Cert science mock we got the question "What is the law of conservation of energy?"

    I thought it was easy, writing down about turning off the lights in your gaff and not leaving things on standby XD

    To save a little bit of face, I'm fairly sure I got an A in the actual thing!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,411 ✭✭✭✭rainbowtrout


    Burkie94 wrote: »
    I remember for my Junior Cert science mock we got the question "What is the law of conservation of energy?"

    I thought it was easy, writing down about turning off the lights in your gaff and not leaving things on standby XD

    To save a little bit of face, I'm fairly sure I got an A in the actual thing!

    I gave a question on a christmas test last year where the students had to give one safety precaution with regard to electricity in the home.

    Most mentioned things like fuses etc.

    One boy wrote 'turn off all hair straighteners when not in use' :pac:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 286 ✭✭fathead82


    In an english exam in 5th year, we had to read a story then answer questions on it, in the story, some of the big words were written in italics.
    One of the questions was "what is the meaning of the words in italics" I wrote "these are the words that you may need to look up in the dictionary".
    The teacher wrote a note at the bottom of my paper recommending that I move to the B class.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 420 ✭✭Paulie Gualtieri


    Can't remember if it was an exam . Think it was a Hotel Catering Tourism test.

    The question was what is a semi vegetarian.

    I answered somebody who would only eat half a steak.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,314 ✭✭✭BOHtox




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 944 ✭✭✭BetterThanThou


    In 5th year, I had the most laid back Religion teacher. Half the time the class just spent time discussing about various things which had nothing to do with the subject, he'd often even just say he's not in the mood to teach so he just played music on the computer. In addition to this, he also frequently told us all about his marijuana use, and has on at least 2 occasions showed up to class at least partially high. So, it came to an exam, I believe it was a Christmas exam. I knew I had every question answered correctly, the final question was something relating to the philosopher Plato, I believe it asked to explain his cave theory. Since I knew I had an A anyway, I decided to write "Sweet Mary Jane" for the craic. I got full marks.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,215 ✭✭✭Gee_G


    In my driving test, the part where you've to answer questions before going driving. The tester showed me a picture of a sign with a "H 500m" and asked me what it was. I panicked and said height restriction and he nearly wet himself laughing!!!


  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 95,006 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


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    Using only a hoe and a large glass of water, I once single-handedly defended a small village in the Amazon Basin from a horde of ferocious army ants. I play bluegrass cello, I was scouted by the Mets, I am the subject of numerous documentaries. When I'm bored, I build large suspension bridges in my yard. I enjoy urban hang gliding. On Wednesdays, after school, I repair electrical appliances free of charge.

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    My deft floral arrangements have earned me fame in international botany circles. Children trust me. I can hurl tennis rackets at small moving objects with deadly accuracy. I once read Paradise Lost, Moby Dick, and David Copperfield in one day and still had time to refurbish an entire dining room that evening. I know the exact location of every food item in the supermarket. I have performed several covert operations with the CIA.

    I sleep once a week; when I do sleep, I sleep in a chair. While on vacation in Canada, I successfully negotiated with a group of terrorists who had seized a small bakery. I balance, I weave, I dodge, I frolic, and my bills are all paid.

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,554 ✭✭✭✭Sleepy


    Our second year exams counted towards our final degree but there unlike third year, there was no maximum 40% penalty for doing the Autumn re-sits. While I could have passed it, the paper for my best subject included a load of topics I'd figured wouldn't be on the paper and hadn't revised so my answer book contained just two sentences:

    "I won't bother wasting my time or yours. Enjoy the summer and I'll see you in August - Sleepy"


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,650 ✭✭✭✭minidazzler


    I wrote an entire German Essay in Irish, perfectly, as some sort of stupid protest.... I don't know why. I enjoyed German :pac:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,094 ✭✭✭SpaceCowb0y


    Back in secondary school we studied "On The waterfront" in English, one of the questions on our mock exams was to give a synopsis of the underlying themes of the story or something along those lines! I hadn't got much to say and just wrote down what i knew of the lyrics to "Don't Stop Believing" by Journey. My English teacher didnt see the funny side of it


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,235 ✭✭✭✭Cee-Jay-Cee


    In my leaving cert business org exam there was a question which was a scenario that you read and answered questions from. One of the questions was along the lines of 'why is vat added added to the final price' or something similar and I answered 'because it said it was in the question'

    I always wondered if I got any marks for that answer. I failed the exam miserably so possibly not but ya never know!!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,965 ✭✭✭Badly Drunk Boy


    hfallada wrote: »
    "father ted is so ****ing 15 years ago".

    No, quoting Father Ted is so 15 years ago.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 282 ✭✭manutd4life


    Junior Cert English. The book that we had studied for the exam was 'The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time' (For those that don't know, it's a book about a child with Aspergers Syndrome).

    While writing out an answer for a question relating to the book, it wrote that the child was anorexic :(


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,802 ✭✭✭beks101


    Not an exam, but in one of my first 'Confessions' with a priest when I was a kid (I'm sure I'm gonna burn in hell for sharing this on a message board, but what the hell)

    He was supposedly trying to emphasize the importance of family and posing one of these "how hard would you fight for them in the face of adversity?" questions and basically patronizing the fcuk out of my eight-year-old self.

    So he starts off, "right Beks, imagine if you were out sailing across Galway Bay in a boat with your family. And suddenly the current got really strong, the boat was rocking and looked like it was about to capsize. The boat was filling up with water and with all of your family in it, it was sinking faster and faster. Now Beks, what would you do?"

    I sat there and just stared at him.

    "Drown"

    He nearly shat himself laughing at that. TBH twenty years later I'm still not entirely sure what answer he expected me to give :confused:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 504 ✭✭✭Zed Bank


    dirtyden wrote: »
    A junior cert exam in religion?

    Are you sure your not making this up?

    No. Unfortunately. I wish religion as a (compulsory) subject was made up!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 543 ✭✭✭Truman Burbank


    College question was to draw and label the heart.
    Drew an actual huge LOVEheart.
    Wasn't thinking.
    Answer book too, so couldn't even get a new piece of paper.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,723 ✭✭✭nice_very


    JC Biology mock exam, the question was something like: Which family does the common garden snail belong to?
    I had no idea, so I put "The shellakybooky family" teacher was correcting them in the library to let us study and she burst out laughing before calling me over and enlightening me!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,097 ✭✭✭kiffer


    beks101 wrote: »
    Not an exam, but in one of my first 'Confessions' with a priest when I was a kid (I'm sure I'm gonna burn in hell for sharing this on a message board, but what the hell)

    He was supposedly trying to emphasize the importance of family and posing one of these "how hard would you fight for them in the face of adversity?" questions and basically patronizing the fcuk out of my eight-year-old self.

    So he starts off, "right Beks, imagine if you were out sailing across Galway Bay in a boat with your family. And suddenly the current got really strong, the boat was rocking and looked like it was about to capsize. The boat was filling up with water and with all of your family in it, it was sinking faster and faster. Now Beks, what would you do?"

    I sat there and just stared at him.

    "Drown"

    He nearly shat himself laughing at that. TBH twenty years later I'm still not entirely sure what answer he expected me to give :confused:

    You were probably meant to say call for help... which he could say was prayer.
    Or you might say you would put on your lifevest anf make sure others had theirs on... which he could say was prayer.
    Or you might say, I'm only a child, mammy and daddy would save me which he could say that's faith, faith like you should have in God.
    or you might say that you'd try really hard and swim all of your family home because your a child and have no idea how freaking hard that would be... and then he could say "aren't you a great boy, that's what jesus would do, you should pray more."


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,611 ✭✭✭Valetta


    Told a history teacher that Watergate was an oil refinery in Cork.


  • Posts: 0 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Ah I've bull****ted a fair amount over the years but one that springs to mind is in an accounts exam when the end of one of the questions was show how they balance.

    They do not balance

    I wrote.

    Fecking hell.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,802 ✭✭✭beks101


    kiffer wrote: »
    or you might say that you'd try really hard and swim all of your family home because your a child and have no idea how freaking hard that would be... and then he could say "aren't you a great boy, that's what jesus would do, you should pray more."


    I am a LAYDEE!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,207 ✭✭✭longhalloween


    In my Junior Cert Irish we had to write of a sporting event. My Irish is sh*te, but I knew the word for goal is cúl. So I wrote cúúúúúúúúúúúúúúúúúúúúúúúúúúlllllllll about 5 times over a page and a half essay.

    Also in a college history exam I made up a 3 page story of Martin Luther. I failed.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,840 ✭✭✭✭osarusan


    I got -1% on a German test once. It was a 50-item grammar test. I got every question wrong, and got deducted a percent for not writing the date in the proper German way.


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