One time back in AP physics on a test I was prompted with “Find the accelerating force on the electron”. I could not think of the way to do that in the moment, so I literally wrote No, and wrote down a fake answer so I could use that number for the next part of the problem. I got back the test a few days later and the teacher wrote a smiley face down there. Apparently I made her laugh so long and so hard her family had to check in on her so she just gave me the points.
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mastertigurius@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Hhhhehhhhh… Why do some teachers feel the need to be such dicks? Just smile, have a laugh, get with the joke, let it spice up your life.
drcobaltjedi@programming.dev 23 hours ago
faythofdragons@piefed.social 21 hours ago
Back in middle school history, they wanted to know who the UK Prime Minister was during WWI, and I couldn’t remember so I wrote down James Bond, and got half credit for making the teacher laugh.
AllHailTheSheep@sh.itjust.works 20 hours ago
in college calc classes, my handwriting is famously quite poor. I’d scribble down some illegible notes and formulas, draw a few pictures illustrating the problem, then come up with a random answer. most of my classes graded work, not correct answers, so if I had an inkling of the right way to do it I could fake it and usually get at least 75% credit for the question.
always hated the questions that make you use the answer from previous questions. always a good time when you get to the end and have a nonsensical answer and have to redo 4 pages to find where you forgot to carry a 1.
shneancy@lemmy.world 22 hours ago
when it’s every now and then it’s great! but some students try to get out of learning by being funny, and it’s your job to actually teach them something
herrvogel@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
On our German tests back in hs, there was a vocab section where we’d use words in sentences. I didn’t know one of the words in one of the tests, so I wrote “ich weiß nicht was <word> bedeutet”, which means “I don’t know what <word> means”. Our teacher accepted that one with a laugh, but said it was a one time thing and it would not be allowed again. People still tried their luck with similar tricks after that, but got nothing.
Me, I was just surprised she’d never seen that in her career before. I wasn’t expecting to get any points for that. Thought she for sure would have had other smartass students like me.
TrickDacy@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
Thank you for having the sane take.
WindyRebel@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
I’m in my master’s program for elementary education. If I saw this, I would just pull them to the side and ask them to translate it to me as English. If it comes out sounding plausible, I’d give them full points because they knew how to say it. They could obviously already read it since they knew how to answer the question. So the writing could come later if that was an issue.
If it was a joke, I’d let it slide but let them know that in the future I need them to write it fully in English.
mastertigurius@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
Yes! Thank you! This is how it should be done. Too much of my education was ruined by burnt-out, jaded teachers who wouldn’t even acknowledge your existence or even laugh at you when you don’t understand why points were subtracted in your test. You sound like someone who’s serious about this stuff, and I’m cheering you on!
WindyRebel@lemmy.world 10 minutes ago
Thank you! I’m a late career changer (in my early 40s), but I am loving it so far! I am student teaching in fifth grade currently and absolutely love it. I just want to do things that help others and I feel that teaching is one of those ways I can positively impact a kid’s life.
It probably helps that I’m also a dad, so I do have that empathy and an appreciation of kids and their humor as well.
homes@piefed.world 1 day ago
Plus, if that kid can write in Cyrillic cursive, good for them!
TrickDacy@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
It’s being a dick to express confusion about why a student is mocking your lessons for them? But the student doing it is just a hilarious and harmless joker, of course. Pretty weird take tbh
mastertigurius@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
You dont even know what subject this test was in. Judging from the information provided in the picture, the assignment was completed. If teachers want the kids to do stuff their way, they’ll need to put more effort into how they word their assignments.
TrickDacy@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
This was very clearly an ESL class and it’s rather insane of you to assume from this screenshot that instructions were in any way close to unclear
Uebercomplicated@lemmy.ml 4 hours ago
Maybe I’m messed up somehow (I guess I am in the 98th percentile of dyslexics), but the instructions aren’t clear to me at all.
This happened a lot to me in reading comprehension exams in highschool as well. I would have hated the teacher and the class had I received a question like this, because I genuinely don’t know how to proceed.
Funny, I did so badly in highschool until grades 11 and 12, where I started the IB, got a different set of teachers, etc. And suddenly I get straight As (or in IB lingo, 7s) instead of Cs. And I think a big factor, not kidding, was the style and formulation of exams like these. It really does make a difference for some people.
Good test design would be to have Bob‘s first answer already filled in, so you get a pointer to how the dialogue is supposed to develop. Or just to have an oral exam, which I think are superior anyway.
AyuTsukasa@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
I can laugh and not give them the points at the same time.
turdas@suppo.fi 1 day ago
The “???” suggests they didn’t get the joke. Like come on, not even a sarcastic “very funny, 2/5”?
Klear@quokk.au 1 day ago
I read the ??? as “Are you fucking kidding me?”
TrickDacy@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
Kinda weird how people hated learning so much they wanna project bad intentions on some question marks and innocence onto the little shit who thought they’d be “cute” and waste everyone’s time. This teacher had a stack of papers to grade. And it was a pretty meh joke in any case.
DmMacniel@feddit.org 22 hours ago
What’s the joke?
EtherWhack@lemmy.world 22 hours ago
That the conversation was continued, just not in English
Yawweee877h444@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Same score but an LOL instead of ???
mastertigurius@lemmy.world 1 day ago
No points for you then.