The teacher hands out the quiz or exam and we stare at the first question and have no idea how to answer it. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.” As Thomas Edison once said, “I have not failed. We spend all our time celebrating success in school and we need to devote more time celebrating failure. People love this book because on some level they can relate to being in the situation of staring at an exam question and having no clue how to answer it. This may be a stretch, but I think the book also provides a way for students to understand that everyone makes mistakes and that failure is a part of the learning process. Even when the answer isn’t intentionally funny, it provides an interesting insight into how young people try to logically answer a question without the necessary facts or information. The examples provided here are amazing not just in their wrongness but also in the students’ creativity and sense of humor.
It is a hilarious book of wrong answers that students can browse in between classes. A few examples of the type of questions and answers you’ll find are provided here:į in Exams should be available in every middle school and high school library. The book is divided into examples from the various disciplines, including: Chemistry, Biology, Physics, Math, Business and Technology, Psychology, History and Geography, and English. This is a quick, funny read that's bound to cheer you up on gloomy day.F in Exams by Richard Benson, Chronicle Books, 2011, ISBN: 978-08į in Exams compiles the very best of the very worst student answers on a variety of exams given in middle and high school classes. After his death, his career suffered a dramatic decline." He later died from an overdose of wedlock which is apparently poisonous. "Who was Socrates?" - "Socrates was a famous old greek teacher who went around giving people advice. "What is the overall message of Frankenstein? - "Don't reanimate corpses." "I asked my mum why we said old men at the end of prayers at school, I don't know any old men apart from grandpa." "The north pole is so cold that the people that live there have to live somewhere else." "Every morning dad has a slice of dread before he goes to work." "If you are really naughty, you get exploded from school." Some quotes (grammar and spelling not corrected for obvious reasons): Most of the students are obviously joking and hoping their teachers will go along with them.
It's light entertainment and a way to pass the time. This is an amusing collection of quotes from students' test papers.
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