Whaaaaaa????

[protege]

Those of us who actually read the entire thing got to sit back and watch quite a show of idiots that day, LOL. And the teacher proved his point quite well.

Hehe my dad's a teacher...and he always uses that test in his classes. And yes, he does make fun of the students who actually follow the questions without reading everything. Now you know why I'm such a smartass

[Android Kaeli]

I had a summer school teacher for math during the summer between my sophmore and junior years, he is the ONLY math teaher I have liked more then a small, tiny bit. Why? Because he was smart enough to do weekly tests and this was the only, and I mean only, math class I got higher then a D on the majority of tests. Had I not failed one test, I would have gotten an A for the entire course -- which, to me, is a shocker since math and I have a hate-hate relationship.

Honestly, I much rather have weekly tests and a chapter test at the end of the chapter of study so that way the information is still there. To me it drills the information in more then just skimming over something three weeks before the end test and expect everyone to remember it.

[firecat88]

Honestly, I much rather have weekly tests and a chapter test at the end of the chapter of study so that way the information is still there. To me it drills the information in more then just skimming over something three weeks before the end test and expect everyone to remember it.

Quoted for the fact that I totally agree.

[Mytical]

Merriweather - My teacher did the second one, only four people passed. I was one of them

[Syriilord]

First off, I have to admit that I am one of those ones who always seem to do badly in written exams. The less said about it the better.

Secondly:

"if a plane crashes on the border of Canada & the US, where are the survivors buried".

That depends on the person responsible for their funeral arrangements once they eventually die, as all living things do.

[Ironclad Alibi]

Who killed Cain?

*DING* Abel!

--- how to torpedo a scripture quiz

According to a Wikipedia article on Cain and Abel, Cain died when a house fell on him. So the person who killed Cain was Dorothy Gale.

[Gaki]

In my Junior year of high school I had a teacher who would sit in front of the class and ask us the questions that were going to be on the final (he had the final in his hands and was reading off it) and he'd go through the WHOLE final in some cases. People still flunked it.

I don't get it. I wouldn't even pay attention and I'd get 100s.

[Shalom]

Who killed Cain?

*DING* Abel!

--- how to torpedo a scripture quiz

Cain was accidentally killed by Lamech. He (Lamech) was blind, and his son Tubalcain would tell him which way to direct his arrows when they went hunting. One day Tubalcain saw something moving in the brush, and told Lamech to shoot in that direction; when they went to see what they'd shot, it turned out to be Cain. Lamech was so upset about killing his great-to-the-7th-grandfather that he clapped his hands together in anguish, thereby also killing Tubalcain, whose head was between them. See Genesis 4:23 and commentaries thereto.

(There is a minority opinion that states that nobody killed Cain, and that he died in the Flood aged 1565. If this is the case, he beat Methuselah for the title of longest-lived human by quite some time.)

Merriweather - My teacher did the second one, only four people passed. I was one of them

If that was the one with the "Draw three half inch circles, then squares inside the circles, then triangles inside the squares", yeah, I took that one as well, back in 1986.

Didn't pass. I'd automatically written my name at the top as soon as I received the paper, before I'd even started reading the instructions. I wrote nothing else on the damn thing. Bastard claimed that any mark on the paper was grounds for failing. I did see plenty of folks drawing circles, squares and triangles, though. (And how you're supposed to even manage that, given that the initial circle was a half inch, I've no idea. The triangles would be too small to see if you did it "right".)

It didn't count toward our grade, though. This was in the locksmith school, and the instructor said he was proving a point. He said that many times, installation instructions are written by idiots, and you will find things like "Do foo, then bar, and then baz, but before you do that you need to already have done quux." If you read the instructions one at a time, you will find yourself having to uninstall baz, bar and foo in order to first get quux out of the way, and then retracing your steps. Reading the entire thing at one shot before starting helps avoid that sort of situation. (In my own experience, it also helps prevent having to leave everything half done and run off to the store to buy a left-handed fargle snorker, or whatever particular tool you didn't realize you needed to complete the job before you'd started it.)

[Gizmo]

The other teacher took a different approach. He gave us a test, stressing that it was a very unique test, to test how well we could follow directions, and the most important thing was to read it carefully, and follow each and every instruction exactly, no matter how odd.

First instruction said to read the entire test carefully before proceeding to the second question. The very last instruction, at the end of the paper, said "now you've read the entire test, put your name at the top of the paper, sit back, and do absolutely nothing else". In between, were things such as standing up and sitting down, walking to the blackboard and writing an answer, etc.

Those of us who actually read the entire thing got to sit back and watch quite a show of idiots that day, LOL. And the teacher proved his point quite well.

See I've taken that one half a dozen times (usually 'innovative' HR managers trying to make us 'see clearly' and 'work together' in day long meetings during our busy time that we actually need to be working - the same ones who show you two exactly the same oddly shaped bits of paper side by side and ask which is the bigger) and each time read question 1.... and the last few questions... then the rest of the paper to try to keep up with where other people are in the test.

[Mytical]

Sorry it was this one...

First instruction said to read the entire test carefully before proceeding to the second question. The very last instruction, at the end of the paper, said "now you've read the entire test, put your name at the top of the paper, sit back, and do absolutely nothing else". In between, were things such as standing up and sitting down, walking to the blackboard and writing an answer, etc.

[wolfie]

Who killed Cain?

*DING* Abel!

--- how to torpedo a scripture quiz

One "someone forgot to fact-check the questions" U.S. geography quiz I saw had the question "What is the only state whose name consists of two words, neither of which is 'North', 'South', or 'New'?" The answer was "Rhode Island" - I'm sure virtually anyone from West Virginia would have got that one wrong.

[Mytical]

*nods* Probably meant 'Without a name of a direction or the word New in it" lol.

[DeltaSierra]

The other teacher took a different approach. He gave us a test, stressing that it was a very unique test, to test how well we could follow directions, and the most important thing was to read it carefully, and follow each and every instruction exactly, no matter how odd.

First instruction said to read the entire test carefully before proceeding to the second question. The very last instruction, at the end of the paper, said "now you've read the entire test, put your name at the top of the paper, sit back, and do absolutely nothing else". In between, were things such as standing up and sitting down, walking to the blackboard and writing an answer, etc.

Those of us who actually read the entire thing got to sit back and watch quite a show of idiots that day, LOL. And the teacher proved his point quite well.

my Integrated Medical Laboratory Studies teachers pulled this on us last term - I wrote a post about it on another forum:
Here's a sampling of the hell our teachers put us through in my Integrated Medical Laboratory Studies class!

They're total slave-drivers.

We all know that NOTHING strikes fear into the heart of a college student like the words

"SURPRISE POP QUIZ!!!!"

Here's a sampling of what they threw at us recently, the SADISTS!!!:

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MENTAL AGILITY TEST



You have THREE MINUTES EXACTLY TO COMPLETE THE FOLLOWING MENTAL AGILITY TEST. READ ALL INSTRUCTIONS BEFORE DOING ANYTHING ELSE.

INSTRUCTIONS


1) Write your initials in the top right hand corner of this sheet

2) Write the total of 3 + 16 + 32 + 64 right here: ________

3) Underline instruction 1 above

4) Check the time by your watch with that of your neighbor's

5) Write down the difference in time between the two watches at the foot of this page

6) Draw three circles in the left hand margin

7) Put a tick in each of the circles mentioned in #6 above

8) Sign your signature at the foot of the page

9) On the back of the page, divide 50 by 12.5

10) When you get to this point of the test, stand up, then sit down and continue on with next item

11) If you have carefully followed all these instructions, call out "I HAVE!"

12) On the reverse of this page, quickly draw what you think an upright bicycle looks like from overhead

13) Check your answer to #9 and multiply it by 5, and then write the result in the left margin opposite this item

14) In the space below write the 5th, 10th, 9th, and 20'th letters of the alphabet

15) Punch three holes with your pen here : 0 0 0

16) If you think you are the first person to get this far, call out loudly "I'M IN THE LEAD!"

17) Underline all the even digits on the left hand side of this page

18) Draw triangles around the holes you punched out in #15

19) Draw a circle around the number 10 wherever it occurs

20) Now that you've finished reading the instructions, you may begin! Obey only #'s 1, 2, and 20!


Want to take a guess on how many of us read through the whole thing first? *LAUGHING*

[Kogarashi]

One "someone forgot to fact-check the questions" U.S. geography quiz I saw had the question "What is the only state whose name consists of two words, neither of which is 'North', 'South', or 'New'?" The answer was "Rhode Island" - I'm sure virtually anyone from West Virginia would have got that one wrong.

You mean West Virginia's a state? ::ducks::

[EricKei]

"Well, I guess I could write open-book tests, but they'd be a lot harder."

Well...If I ever end up as a teacher, I'd do exactly that ^_^ But I would offer the students the option...

He gave us a test, stressing that it was a very unique test, to test how well we could follow directions, and the most important thing was to read it carefully, and follow each and every instruction exactly, no matter how odd.

I remember those! Different teachers pulled that on us several times thru the years.

(In my own experience, it also helps prevent having to leave everything half done and run off to the store to buy a left-handed fargle snorker, or whatever particular tool you didn't realize you needed to complete the job before you'd started it.)

I have no choice. I am now officially obligated to post this link.