Failed Exam Answers
- Categories: International, News
- Date: Nov 19, 2009 23:08 JST
- Tags: Bizarre, Fail, School, Schoolboys, Schoolgirls, UK
A recent book highlights some of the less than reassuring exam answers given by UK schoolchildren.
With apologies to Malaysians…
The UK has long enjoyed neurosis over the dire quality of its public schooling, for good reason it seems. The book is available now.































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Oh, God. I loled very hard.
why was one of the tags 'schoolgirls', thats very misleading. still, good shit, the 'you might walk into the telephone mast' one was damn funny.
I hadn't noticed the school girls thing, that's almost as clever as some of the test answers.
"by placing a number of big dames into the river"
wasnt there JUST an article on Fat Princess?
Ps3 sucks.
The amount of tests for preperation for final exams we get are rediculous so a few people just get sick of it and have some fun with it.
My answer to "Contrast and compare The knights tale and the millers tale." was three pages of normal writing and a drawing of a giant robot piloted by the miller fighting the knight between the pages.
i meant "in their own way most answers we`re correct". My sloppy spelling... shoot me if you want.
Some of these are oh so very correct.
I was taking an IQ test recently during a psychological exam and I had to fight the urge to not answer some of the questions this way.
Why is the soil so fertile?
Because of all the micro orgasms.
LMAO! This reminds me of when I was back in college.
One girl in one of my gym classes thought that Manual Labor was the Communist Leader of Cuba. XDDD
I shudder to think where the world is headed with bright lights such as these making their way through the educational systems all over the world.
Malays don't come from any country... they originate from Malaysia. People from Malaysia are called Malaysians anyway, not Malay. They do, however, speak Malay
wanna bet not all malaysian know how to speak malay?
I don't, so hah!
This news shouldnt' be here.
They aren't even written in hiragana.
LOL UK Schooling XDDD
jajajaja good theme!!!
Most answers are absolutely correct. Math ones should have been calculated, but... i a way they we`re correct anyway.
i meant "in their own way most answers we`re correct". My sloppy always spelling... shoot me if you want.
Is this sankaku?
Welcome.
No, this is Patrick.
While I can't fault the given answer to the question "What did Mahatma Gandhi and Genghis Khan have in common?", I am curious to know what the expected answer was.
They're both dead and asian, for one.
They were both leaders of their respective countries. Mahatma Gandhi was the leader of India and Genghis Khan was the leader of Mongolia.
they're both dead people in history books
This isn't very far from the truth lol. Some people do it for lulz...seriously...ahh good times in my Business Studies exam...I didn't know the answer for a question so I wrote 'Batman will save us' and 'Pie' for another...why not? If you really don't know it, answer with a stupid answer for fun. Though I won't deny some seriously think that those above are the answer for reals. Most teachers now just train kids for exams rather than actually teach them anything. But then it makes you wonder whether the kid who just threw a stanley knife at the board where the teacher stands is a lost cause...Shitty parents=shitty kids.
The education system here is a joke. Is this so surprising as to why UK has criminalized prostitution, banned loli/shota, got us in debt with the banks etc...But it was inevtiable when you have moral advocates and religious facists in power. Majority of the Lords are devout Christians or Catholics and supported by Christian Organization. The Commons? Just the same. Mordern Warfare 2 has been under fire ever since it came out...Wow now that I look at it I'm fairly stumped. Are us Brits just gettin more stupid by the year? Looking at the past 7 years and these incriminating legislations being churned out at the speed of light...It seems all too true. If we're not ruled by facists it's moralfags...or both. Welcome to 1984 and Animal Farm.
The names and the Birmingham ones were the best!
WTF, is totally funny, is still better in ENG, if in BM(Bahasa Malaysia) Malaysia's country language, is more funny is anyone knows BM. But i think is some people plan to share these kind of stupid things and come up with these kind of answers. xD
Dood, these answers were taken from British exam papers, why you're expecting any Malay language here?
lol i guess allot of UK people go on this site,
if this was results for the US i wonder how many people would say fail and not think it was "creative"
It was funny though
God damn it I lawl'd xD
Kids sure do say the darndest things.
Seriously though, this article is lulz. If I was grading some of these, I would give them 100% just for being creative.
okay, the last one was fantastic! XD I'm Malaysian and I find it hilarious!
me too!
XDXDXD
I would like to go to Malaria some day.
I haven't ROFL'd that hard in a while. This is by far one of the best articles I've ever read on this site.
This is because rather than reading school books, those lifeless kids would rather read Stephenie Meyer's crapload of bullshit known as Twilight or watch Twilight movies.
*pokes New Moon*
This entry is so timely, Sankaku. Soooo very timely!
Cracked up laughing at this. Especially the Romans one, reminds me of Monty Python "What have the Romans ever done for us?"
British education is in such a sad state that now only one in five students are in the top 20% education bracket.
They were obviously trolling... Maybe, just maybe, they were just way too smart and looked down on the rest of their peers? Maybe there were a little cynical? Maybe they didn't give a shit about exams? Maybe the UK's school system's failing-wait a minute...
By the way, are these elementary school exams? I'm not familiar with the UK's educational curriculum.
Fantastically funny! British humor lives.
dude, this is almost as old as the internet
I think they should get credit for being witty and original! I've seen some bad answers before, and these aren't bad.
Not only that they fail at smiles, they fail academically...
The one thing they don't seem to fail at is to stab each other...
Funny thing that two of the top universities in the world are in the UK (Oxford and Cambridge).
Question: What is a vibration?
Answer: There are good vibrations and bad vibrations. Good vibrations were discovered in the 1960s.
That one broke my laugh box.
I've only seen the expand one before. Some of these were pretty funny but others were meh.
People in UK are so dumb! That's dumber than the stupid jokes you get from Filipinos or Vietnamese....
oh my fucking god
epic..to the nth degree
Didn't know there were plenty of Malaysians surfing Sankaku before I came across this page :P
*flies off to spread Malaria*
we do it in private~
lol
Fail. Some are okay but a lot were a little korny.
the vibration one shows an element of vaguely intelligent humour at least
HA ha ha that was hilarious, lol.
*falls from chair laughing*
Now my chair is "stand alone" one :P
I remember more than once during my school days thinking "Fuck it!" during a test and just writing the goofiest answers I could think of.
1 + 1 = 10 in binary u noobs!!!!!
Some pretty creative answers there... i wouldn't be able to think up something so funny!
most creative way to fail class
hope to see you in fall semester
Haha, you see this kind of thing all the time from some smartass kid... and I love them so much for it.
Alot of the people posting comments really are stupid. Most of these test awnsers are joke awnsers and are done on purpose by british children trying to be funny(which they succeeded at doing). The british really are the greatest comedians.
Reminds me of some weird answers that my friends and I answered in our examinations..
"What are converging lens?"
"Lens that converge.(?)"
"Give 2 examples of converging lens."
"Lens that converge and lens that don't diverge."
lolwut I got 40% for my whole paper
Oh God even Cirno would have given better answers then these.
I now under stand why the Brits allow their liberty and privacy to be stripped away without a complaint.
British humour - you're born with it.
The response about Romeo's character development is true, though. I mean, he's a loathsome, self-centered little git throughout the entire play. He doesn't get better, he just dies.
I would be highly interested in seeing the same person's answer to questions regarding Hamlet's character dev :P
18 is actually pretty hard. I can't remember that conversion off the top of my head.
These kids are creative. They still rattle their brains to write some answers rather than nothing.
Two thumbs up!
How can people be so stupid! lol!!!
well, at least i found a reason why the world should be affraid of us Malaysians.
Agreed. *nods* :P
Ya! Brits are funny!
LONG LIVE JEREMY CLARKSON!!! POWERRRRRR!!!!
+100 for making my day
"Varicous" = "Very Close" lolol
Most of these answers were done with such genius and wit that the thought of these being answered by stupid students is nonetheless defamatory- stupid students don't come up with smart, creative answers such as these. It takes a bright student to make a joke out of a question they so happen to not have the proper answers for.
It also goes to show that Malaysia needs to work harder in order to be recognised a little bit more in the world compared to Singapore.
thank you for making my day, SC!
Last time I checked, there is no "race" called "Malays". You can't define race just by what country they're from. That's some serious racist bulls--t they're teaching over there. I feel sorry for these kids.
Expand 2(x+y) was hilarious - good post.
Actually, there IS a race called Malays. And yes, they are in Malaysia. But Malaysia also has Chinese and Indian and other indigenous races. So not only Malays come from Malaysia.
Some of those aren't really a failure of the answer, but a failure of the question. Any smart person can see that.
some of these questions are even more of a failure than the answers, in fact.
Well I suppose the students in question jsut thought >well I don't know shit about the topic so if I am going to fail I might as well fail as awesome as possible.<
lols i gotta try those on my tests xD ha ha xD
Funny but too fake
Thinking outside the box is considered fail? How close-minded are we!
Malaysia, the gayest country in Asia.
fuck u retard
Malaysia truly gaysia ^.^
Malaysia truly Gay-Sia! ^_^
*Fixed
Many of these are logical answers. I approve XD
Genius, if only these kids existed in real life
This book's pretty old.
My favourite one was the maths question that asked the pupils to "find x". One bright spark circled the x on the diagram and wrote "here it is".
At least some of these are made up. No school in the UK cares where the American Declaration of Independence was signed for example and most UK exam require much longer answers than these questions call for.
..."Somewhere in Philadelphia" would be my guess by the way.
Really? You don't think they offer American History courses in the UK? I know they offer British History courses in the US.
And some of the questions, I couldn't even answer...
well that was good for the luls
Yay for funny posts!
vericose = very close.. this one crack me real hard..
"Flooding in areas such as the Mississippi Rive may be avoided by placing a number of big dames into the river." FAIL
Dames = women
Dams = barriers holding back water, water reservoirs
FAIL
Congrats, you answered correctly.
Would you like a prize? A gold Star to show to your mommy perhaps?
You also get a plaque with "Wet Blanket" written on it.
Actually, I believe it's more effective to build dikes along the river. Dams cost way too much and may cause an environment disaster.
That's what the dames are for:)
He said dikes, not dykes. :P
No matter how you look at it, placing dams INTO the river is about as productive as the dame solution.
They don't need more dames, they need more dykes.
Damn you! Now I can't take walks in Holland with a straight face again!