Student Paper Howlers

[Kitten]

Howlers

Usual scandal mongering by the daily fail, but some of the answers are genius!

Love in particular the answer given to 'What is a fibula'.

[Desmo]

They're frickin' superb

[Garp]

Kids are supposed to remember the number of feet in a mile? Never had to learn that at school, only did metric measurement system.

Googled it, and it's an interesting answer.

Steve is driving his car. He is traveling at 60 feet/second and the speed limit is 40mph. Is Steve speeding?

1 mile = 5280 feet

60*60 = 3600 feet per minute. 3600 * 60 = 216,000 feet per hour.

216,000 / 5280 = 40.909090909 mph. So yes, he is speeding but by .9 mph. Under British law they allow a leniency of up to 10% IIRC.. so whilst he might , just, be speeding he wouldn't be considered as such in the eyes of the law.

[Psymonkee]

Originally Posted by Garp

Kids are supposed to remember the number of feet in a mile? Never had to learn that at school, only did metric measurement system.

Googled it, and it's an interesting answer.

1 mile = 5280 feet

60*60 = 3600 feet per minute. 3600 * 60 = 216,000 feet per hour.

216,000 / 5280 = 40.909090909 mph. So yes, he is speeding but by .9 mph. Under British law they allow a leniency of up to 10% IIRC.. so whilst he might , just, be speeding he wouldn't be considered as such in the eyes of the law.

My own interpretation of this is much better than maths

Steve is driving his car and he is travelling at 60 feet/sec. Never said his car was so I assume he has already crashed and is currently flying through the windscreen

Much better answer

[divine]

Usually IME unless the point of the exam is to test your knowledge of such things, they'll usually have conversion ratios and stuff like that on the paper.

[SidewinderINC]

I got a forwarded email today with plenty of these. I think my favourite one has to be "what is a vibration?"

[semi-pro waster]

I'm not entirely convinced of the veracity of some of them, nor that the correct interpretation of them is that the exams were too much for the students - some of the answers are borderline genius, if I had the wit I'd have answered a few papers like that when I didn't care about the result.

My favourite has to be:
Q: "How does Romeo's character develop throughout the play?"
A: "It doesn't, it's just self, self, self, all the way through."
How to dismiss Shakespeare in one line.

[Wossi]

Originally Posted by semi-pro waster

I'm not entirely convinced of the veracity of some of them, nor that the correct interpretation of them is that the exams were too much for the students - some of the answers are borderline genius, if I had the wit I'd have answered a few papers like that when I didn't care about the result.

My favourite has to be:
Q: "How does Romeo's character develop throughout the play?"
A: "It doesn't, it's just self, self, self, all the way through."
How to dismiss Shakespeare in one line.

Was talking to my sister about these last night and it was this one she picked up on. As an English teacher she told me that Shakespeare questions haven't been in Key Stage 3 for a while now and that technically the answer is correct.

Imo, it doesn't show that people can't even answer dumbed down questions as most of them look either fake or just have spelling errors.

Usual crap from the DM if you ask me.

[Princess Griff]

I absolutely love this!!! I just nearly weed myself laughing at them!!!

[Del Lardo]

I thought they showed superb lateral thinking. Far more useful in the real world than memorised facts.