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Well its that time of the year unfortunately and exams are here.

Anyways ive done a few in my time and the other day i was thinking about the stupidiest thing ive done in an exam....

It got me thinking what things people have done in exams that have made them think 'what the #### did i just do' after they got out.

Whats the dumbest thing you have done in an exam or whats the worst thing that has happened to you before or during one?
 
Sat there in complete disarray (and dread!), staring at a physical science exam without a clue about anything, was completely blank!:eek:
Luckily everything made sense about 30 minutes later and yes I did pass thank god, but my god it isn't fun when that happens I seriously thought about running out! :o
 
Rocked up to an open book law exam 5 minutes late because I couldn't find a park. Walked in, 600 people in the room, exam had already started, and dropped all my books in front of everyone :o :D
 
Was going through a really bad virus and the time came for my Year 11 Ancient History exam. I was never very good at the subject, and being sick just made it worse, but my teacher saw me and he just said 'do your best, that's all you can do'.
So I get into the room and the time come for 5 minutes of reading. Of course after a year of 'always read the questions thoroughly' I misread my questions.
The paper said something like choose 3 of the following 6 questions to answer in essay format. I answered all 6. :o
Needless to say I failed the exam miserably, but never misread a question again!
 

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I went straight from a overnight stay at the hospital to my English exam for my TEE. Now thats dedication. I always write messages on my exam papers telling the people what I think of there questions. Exam I had today was full of shit so I told them about it too.
 
Had a practical exam for physics a few weeks ago. Had to build a circuit to find out whether a particular resistor was ohmic or non-ohmic. I was trying to put this circuit together and was having no luck, called the teacher over and said; "I think my ammeter's broken", she simply replied; "No, there's something wrong with your circuit". Needless to say, I was becoming more and more frustrated, until, with two minutes to go I remembered I had to put the unknown resistor into the circuit:rolleyes:. Didn't get all my answers down but I still got the right answer.

In the same exam, there was a question asking about completing an experiment to find the latent heat of fusion for ice. My mate sat through the whole 25 alotted minutes wondering how to get the answer with only water. It wasn't until he was onto the next station when he saw someone walk up to the big esky up the front and take some ice from it. Obviously I laughed my ass off at him.

People who did/do physics might be the only one's to really understand what I'm saying.
 
had a cone before an art exam because it was my last one in year 12 and I was planning on not counting...
somehow must have analysed uniquely coz I got like 84



Im gonna ####ing perish for linguistics this monday however
 
i remember on 2 occasions where ive been cut down in an exam. first one was semester 1 in year 12 was coming down with an awful cold and i had a chemistry exam. thought i could do it in the state i was in but big mistake. was blank for an hour and then managed to finish the paper. got 52% which affected my ranking at the end of the year.

i remember another occasion in my 2nd semester in engineering. was doing an electrical systems exam and all of a sudden in the middle of the exam i had a blood nose. just kept on bleeding. wouldnt stop. for half an hour i couldnt do my exam. luckily i managed to pull in the exam supervisor and forced her to write a note saying that i had a blood nose in the exam and it may have affected my performance. it sure worked.

last year in 2nd year. i forgot to bring a page of notes that i was allowed to do. did the exam then after the exam went to the head lecturer and told him i left my notes at home it may have affected my performance is there by any chance i could get a supplimentary. he said we'll see. didnt get one (cheers prick) and left uni for 8 months.

finally a good story, had an exam about 3 weeks ago. i didnt attend any of the lectures for the entire semester and crammed in the last 3 days before the exam. i couldnt believe my eyes when i saw i got a high distinction.


so yeh exams and I have had a very rocky relationship, i have lost count on the amount of times ive gone blank or the amount of times ive written bullshit to save my arse. sadly its been more negative than good (there has been a shitload of times ive misread the question as well). moral of the story is ensure to always be in good health and be focused. take all measures to get to that position. glad exams are over. 7 weeks of relaxation then its back to square 1.
 
MAG87 said:
last year in 2nd year. i forgot to bring a page of notes that i was allowed to do. did the exam then after the exam went to the head lecturer and told him i left my notes at home it may have affected my performance is there by any chance i could get a supplimentary. he said we'll see. didnt get one (cheers prick) and left uni for 8 months.
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How is forgetting some notes a legitimate reason for a supplementary exam? Supps are for people who nearly pass (ie get around 45-50%). If you know your shit you shouldn't be relying upon notes pages (which are really more of a bonus than a necessity most of the time) to drag you up to 45%. If you meant deferred exam, as in extenuating circumstances, then you should harden up.:)
 
Ljp86 said:
Year 11 and 12 TEE English board.
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The other day i wrote something like the red jam splattering over the antagonists shirt symbolises that the blood is on his hands.
 
heals said:
The other day i wrote something like the red jam splattering over the antagonists shirt symbolises that the blood is on his hands.
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In Year 12 English Lit I wrote the biggest piece of crap essay in my life, on either Tim Winton's Cloudstreet or Sophocles' Oedipus the King, can't remember which...anyways my Lit teacher made me read it out in front of the whole class and said it was the first time in 30 years as a teacher that he'd given a 100% for an essay :thumbsu:
 
JKCeagle said:
In Year 12 English Lit I wrote the biggest piece of crap essay in my life, on either Tim Winton's Cloudstreet or Sophocles' Oedipus the King, can't remember which...anyways my Lit teacher made me read it out in front of the whole class and said it was the first time in 30 years as a teacher that he'd given a 100% for an essay :thumbsu:
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Ahh well that's lit for ya :thumbsu:

Remember Year 11 Lit exam, hadn't read the book (Pride and Prejudice), looked up some internet notes on it and asked my friends a few questions on it and quickly read some handouts on it before I went into the exam and came out with 75% for that essay. 5 % more than the person that helped me :)

Worst one is again year 11, Chemistry this time though. I'm going through the questions and get to one I need my calculator notes for. Unfortunately, my calculator (graphics) was screwy. All my notes and formulas had been wiped and I was left with a blank calculator. Thank God it was year 11 and worth shit all. Still got 51% though :D Probably shouldn't have relied on notes though, oh well.
 

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Scotland said:
How is forgetting some notes a legitimate reason for a supplementary exam? Supps are for people who nearly pass (ie get around 45-50%). If you know your shit you shouldn't be relying upon notes pages (which are really more of a bonus than a necessity most of the time) to drag you up to 45%. If you meant deferred exam, as in extenuating circumstances, then you should harden up.:)
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you just answered your question. i knew i was gonna fail the exam. i have to admit i neglected that subject. lol anways failing the exam was the best thing to happen to me. honestly it really was.
 
TEE physics exam last year. Went in having done no study, already failed for the year and wasnt going to be counted towards my TEE anyway. Sat there for 20 minutes with absolutely no idea about any of it. I did a little bit of it and then decided to stay for the rest of it, feeling that I hadn't sat in the stupid class all year to leave one hour into the exam.

Decided to draw a turtle on my calculator and ended up being pretty good (well the girls loved it anyway) and probabley the most I had done in Physics all year.

Got 17% for the exam
 
Haha TEE.

How many times I sat in the exam room during reading time and wondered if I was in the right room :o
 
This will sound stupid, as I cannot recall it correctly. This was a biology mock exam, where I had to decribe meiosis or mitosis or something of a cell. I've tried to bullshit my way through it, but it came out looking a lot like a vagina. I pissed myself laughing in the exam. Needless to say from my memory of the subject i got 48% but guess what, full marks on that question. Spun me out.
 

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My fondest memory of TEE was my lit exam- was the last exam, and everyone was a bit strung out.

This chinese girl in my class was wandering around the exam room unable to find her name on the table- everyone else had sat down and she was still wandering around, the examiners had asked her repeatedly what her name was, and had hunted around checking all the examination cards on the no-show desks, had asked everyone to double check their name cards, and still couldn't find anywhere for her to sit.

They started quizzing her whether she was actually in this exam, and she started to cry.

Finally, one of the examiners double checked her admission sheet thingy again, and said, um your name isn't (chinese name) is it?

She stopped crying, and said yes. She'd forgotten that she was registered with her actual chinese name rather than what she called herself, and had been too stressed to notice when she'd read the name cards on the desk.

The entire room pissed themselves laughing for most of reading time, poor girl.
 
hmmm Im pretty sure I just got 50/50 for multiple choice in my archaeology exam today. w00t
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I got 4% in my first year computer science exam on some kind of programming language. Needless to say I quit CS.

I got 12% for the unit.
 
stewpyd2 said:
I got 4% in my first year computer science exam on some kind of programming language. Needless to say I quit CS.

I got 12% for the unit.
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Haha. Thats pretty funny stuff.
 

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