Posted on 01/09/2021 3:08:59 AM PST by sodpoodle
At Penn State University, there were four sophomores taking chemistry and all of them had an 'A' so far. These four friends were so confident that, the weekend before finals, they decided to visit some friends and have a big party. They had a great time but, after all the hearty partying, they slept all day Sunday and didn't make it back to Penn State until early Monday morning.
Rather than taking the final then, they decided that after the final they would explain to their professor why they missed it. They said that they visited friends but on the way back they had a flat tire.
As a result, they missed the final.
The professor agreed they could make up the final the next day. . .
The guys were excited and relieved. . . They studied that night for the exam.
The next day the Professor placed them in separate rooms and gave them a test booklet.
They quickly answered the first problem worth 5 points. Cool, they thought! Each one in separate rooms, thinking this was going to be easy. . . . then they turned the page.
On the second page was written. . .
For 95 points: Which tire? ____
ROFL
MAO
Just read this to my wife who has taught in colleges. Got a chuckle.
Great exam joke!
Lol, did the flat tire thing in high school, but at least we remembered to smear a little blackish dirt on our hands, and one bit on our faces before going to the office to explain our late return.
Also, when feigning illness, and pain, a drop of glycerine in the eyes was good to facilitate crying.
>>>For 95 points: Which tire? ____<<<
Except these kids were smart. The passenger immediately reasoned a logical response. I was very sick and had taken some pills which made me very drowsy so I slept through it.
He figured that would ace it, but he didn’t figure that his friend came up with the same answer.
Oh well, you know what they say . . . great minds think alike.
In one of my senior year classes the instructor invited us over to his house one evening for a cook-out. It was obvious his wife had put in a lot of time for the occasion, and we all enjoyed it.
The last question on our final exam was "Please explain why none of you had the courtesy to write my wife a thank-you note."
Ouch.
My college roommate wasn’t the sharpest tool in the shed. She was beyond ditzy, just careless with life and barely got through anything as she always did the barest minimums, half assed and mostly just sorry and always content with barely scraping by in the dirtiest and least way possible. (she came from a good family so not sure why.)
Before she dropped out of college (with a 1.8 GPA) she had a final exam where the professor told everyone to read the entire exam from start to finish before they started it. Time began and my roommate read the entire exam, taking the time to go all the way through to the end where instead of there being a last question, there was a statement: Thank you for following directions and reading this exam from beginning to end. If you have written nothing other than your Name at the top of the first page, please stop reading and turn the exam in for a grade of 100%. If you have not followed my instructions and have answered any of the questions, you must complete the entire exam for your grade.
So, she got up, picked up her purse and handed the exam to the professor who gave her a huge smile while everyone else looked shocked at her immediate exit from the room. No one else had followed directions and had to complete the entire exam. She was the only one who got 100%.
Lol!
When I immigrated to America my first job was with the Bell Telephone Company in New York...
New hires were given 3 weeks of orientation and classes and on the first day I made an enemy of the instructor 3 different ways...
One of them was by acing a paper she gave us...the only one in the room to do so...college graduates and all...
There were about 20 questions most of them fill in the blank...
#1 was write your name
#2 was When you get to here stop
I read through the rest of those 20 questions
Down about #15 When you get to here call out “Im here”
Well they all wrote furiously and eventually someone called out Im here making the rest write even faster and echoes of Im here resounded from the crowded room...I mumbled after a while so that nobody would get suspicious and continued to pretend I was still writing..
The instructor was preparing to crow that she had fooled us all when I put up my hand and said I stopped when I was told to...and offered my paper...
Well I thought she would be pleased but she came unglued and daggers shot from her eyes...how dare an ignorant immigrant beat out the American college students !!!
Apparently I was the only one in all her classes who followed directions..clearly stated in English...my mother tongue...
LOL
BTW this was 1971 their children and grandchildren are even worse
:)
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