There was once an Alogrithim final exam where there is a question on back-tracking. Suffice to say I try to tackle the question only to keep coming up to a blind. Desperation set in as I canceled out all my answers and wrote “This is not a valid question. Here’s why backtracking wouldn’t work for this question” and list down a three sentences reason.
I got an A for the paper. Maybe I should request for the marked copy (it costs money here!) to see what the professor thought of my answer.
For the converse perspective, when I was 11 I took a Religious Education exam with a teacher I’d never got on with (Mrs Limming, if you’re out there - you weren’t that horrible but then neither was I. Thing is, I was a precocious and arrogant child, not helped that my Mum ran the Sunday School so I tended to know all the Bible things we covered.
Anyway, I answered the paper in record time (that and English were the only things I was good at) and passed the rest of the period drawing a nice picture of God in bed resting on the seventh day. Having marked all the paper (and I reckon I got over 80%) she then gave me a 0 for the whole paper due to my artwork. Such things stay with a child you know…!
Now I wonder what the epic of Gilgamesh teaches us about business law. 
“Page is to big.” This is from the teacher!
That whole thing looks like a fake, created by a junior high student. Look at the curly cursive writing on the last page, “Mr. Freeman - please see after class to discuss your paper.” Nope - I don’t buy it. -13 points for a blank page? Serifs on the “1” in 13? Underlining the individual letters in the “anal” part of “ANALize”? Teachers don’t have time for that shit.
You’re probably right.
When I was bored in a really dumbed-down history class, I amused myself by writing silly mistakes like, “The Spanish conquered Granola” and “Solon was the first Democrat”.
My World Civilization professor would give us various terms on his exams. We had to define the term, give an approximate time frame, and give the short-term and long-term consequences.
On one exam, I had to do this with the Intolerable Acts. These were laws imposed by the Crown on the American colonies in the 1770s. They sparked enough outrage that they were a contributing factor in the War of Independence. I wrote “The long-term consequences should be obvious.”
The professor liked that answer enough that I not only got credit for it, but he told me afterward that he liked it.
At the moment I am dogless and emotional vulnerable, and your picture made me laugh for 15 seconds.
I had a really jerky 8th grade history teacher. She didn’t like me. My mom didn’t like her.
This teacher assigned homework questions every night, and required that the answers be written in the form of complete sentences. So, if the question was, “Who was the first president of the United States,” we had to write, “the first president of the United States was George Washington.” To an eighth grader who hated writing longhand, and who already knew how to write in complete sentences, this was tantamount to torture.
So, one night for homework, I had a question asking why Andrew Jackson opposed the Bank of the United States.
The answer, as proposed by my mom and written by me?
“Andrew Jackson opposed the Bank of the United States because he didn’t get a free toaster when he opened his account.”
There was also my last assignment, where I answered each question with, “The answer to question number ____ is ‘xxxxxxx’.” 'Cause, you know. Technically complete sentences.
Reminds me of my senior English class in high school. It was honors English, and we got stuck with a student teacher who seemed to feel that she was teaching grade-school kids. She got things off on the wrong foot the first day by using the “turn the lights off to get their attention” trick, which caused a moment of surprise, then class-wide laughter when we figured out what she was doing. It ended when someone read a poem in class about what a horrible teacher she was and made her cry. Not a shining moment.
Anyway, she made us write daily journals on a specific topic that she assigned. I turned one in that started and finished on-topic, but in the middle veered into some bizarre dreamlike territory. In the middle I wrote, “If I’m right you won’t read this and I’ll get ten points”. I got ten points.
Terribly mild, looking back on it, but at the time I felt like I was one step away from riding a motorcycle through the school halls.
Yep. I refuse to believe that any teacher ever graded that and gave it a grade as high as a D-.
Epic cuteness.
I don’t think it looks real, but I’ve had lots of teachers who used serifs. And what’s wrong with “Please see after class to discuss your paper”?
In my American History class in high school, the teacher always had essay questions at the end where you choose two out of three or something. They may have been for extra credit, if I recall correctly.
One of the questions once was “Why did it take so long for Texas to become a state.”
A friend of mine answered “Because they all thought they said ‘taxes’ and said no thanks.”
Was the student blind and the teacher was hoping sight would be granted to him by writing that?
Well, okay, it should be “see me” but I think most people would grok the meaning of “Please see…”
Of course. But most *teachers *would have written a complete sentence. And probably would have refrained from writing the word "funny 
" after the sentence “The Greeks contributed many things to our culture, such as olives, gyros, Lenny Kravitz, anal sex, and Oedipus.”
In seventh grade “Historical Geography” I faced the following question on a quiz: How do we know that the Earth rotates on its axis?
Being even more of a smart-ass then than I am know, I answered something along the lines of, “what else would it rotate on? That’s what an axis is.” I followed it up with the expected answer. I don’t remember what the teacher said.
If George III would have realized that it would lead to a black man being President of the Colonies and Socialism, he would have gone mad.