B is the New C

Man takes a multiple choice test and gets every answer wrong. You'll come to see the "0/100" score, you'll stay for the snarky professor comment at the end.

Personally, I always rocked the multiple choice quizzes. Alas, real life doesn't have them (or at the very least, they're not labeled as such).

Tags: Stupid Test Tricks, The answer is not always C

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#5 Comment from plittle
5/12/07 7:08 PM | Permalink

I don't understand the teacher's penultimate statement. In what way is, "may God have mercy on your soul," even relevant to the situation?
-Paul
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#4 Comment from gedaim
5/12/07 4:51 PM | Permalink

The worse thing is, it wasn't even a multiple choice exam - all the questions were True/False!
#3 Comment from monponsett
5/12/07 3:24 PM | Permalink

My dumbest student moment was the kid- who was obviously picking up or dropping off drugs- trying to casually work a "How heavily scrutinized is the border between Massachusetts and Vermont?" question into my lecture on Bennington.

Naturally, that lesson went out the window when I realized that there was someone sitting 5 feet from me who thought Vermont was another country. At the time, I was teaching in Charlestown, Massachusetts... just north of Boston, and maybe 30 miles from where this student planned to cross into Vermont.

"You do realize that Vermont is one of the 50 US states, no?"

"Oh.. yeah. Of course. I just mean, like, ummm, do they check your car when you drive over the border into it?"

Now... corporal punishment is a thing of the past at all but the most ambitious alternative programs... but someone had to slap some sense into this kid, and I was the ranking adult in the room.

"Come here... let me show you on the map...." When he leaned over my desk, I stapled his thumb to it. "Do not be a fool, Andre."
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#2 Comment from psychfun
5/12/07 1:14 PM | Permalink

I just got back from graduation & this is just hysterical! Probably a student failing anyway & wanted his fellow classmates to suffer too. Personally, this is why I don't grade on a curve. I remember my sr yr in HS the principal got on the loud speaker & ridiculed the students who took it upon themselves to take their ACT & get a Zero! You have to know your stuff to get a zero...chance alone you would have higher. They did it to bring our school's avg down. These were the same guys who in their computer class figured out how to divert the money designated to the football team into the swim team! HA! God I wonder what they are doing now? Probably politicans! HA!
#1 Comment from trunkboy21
5/12/07 11:48 AM | Permalink

Sure they are, John. It's called voting. You're probably one of those trying to buck tradition, and write in a candidate on a multiple choice test for grown ups...

In many ways, "C" is often the best choice in voting too, but that could get deep quick.

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