If at first you don’t succeed, try again. That’s the message in Richard Benson’s book, F in Exams: The The Very Best Totally Wrong Test Answers. The book is a collection of real wrong answers students have given on tests or exams in subjects like chemistry, biology, physics, math, history and geography.
Benson’s book covers the student’s arrogance by claiming that the answers were given when the student knew there was no hope in answering the question correctly, and therefore attempts to turn a “fail” into a “win.”
UT Professor Daniel Dooghan was in a German 102 class at the University of Wisconsin, studying the division of East and West Germany. His professor, taking pity on his students, gave a freebie question on a quiz. He asked students to draw the dividing line between East and West Germany. Most students answered correctly. However, one enterprising student, convinced that it was a trick question, split the country into northern and southern sections, not unlike the Dakotas. Legend has it that the German TAs pinned it up in their office to mock the abilities of their undergraduate students.
UT Professor Kevin Fridy once gave an exam and a student answered “WTF” on a majority of the questions.
Q: What is a nitrate?
A: It is much cheaper than a day rate.
Q: Describe the chemical differences between H2O and CO2?
A: H2O is hot water, CO2 is cold water.
Q: What is a fibula?
A: A little lie.
Q: What is the meaning of the word “varicose”?
A: Close by.
Q: Describe the shape and structure of the Milky Way.
A: It’s kind of like a long, bumpy rectangle. It’s completely covered in milk chocolate, but inside there are two delicious layers: chocolaty nougat and caramel.
Harsh judgement guys…(the writing has gone to crap? Did you not read any of last years editions? it was all gossip and sex advice!) But accusing something of stealing a meme or content from /b/ is like the pot calling the kettle black.
While I do already have an entire folder dedicated to lulzy wrong answers that I’ve picked up, it’s nice that there’s a coffee table book for it considering that, ya know, a significant portion of the population doesn’t live on reddit. It must be nice to have the innocence in only using the internet for facebook and homework answers.
My favorite is
Cause: Tony practices the piano 20 minutes every day
Effect: He is a big nerd
I agree.
These images have been floating around on 4chan for YEARS – I mean, c’mon guys. You get a nice new glossy “magazine” format, and your writing quality goes to hell.
This is what makes up a college newspaper? Really? I mean, I guess this is easier to wrote and edit than, say, an article about the military and wet fish, but seriously? I thought the Minaret was something our school could be proud of. I might as well just head over to failblog. Dear lord.