philosophy exam myth?

[mollykins]

Hearing about something on one of my other threads reminded me of this story, which is probably a myth.

An a-level student was in a philosophy (I think it's philosophy but it might be something like sociology or psycology) exam and one of the questions was 'what is bravery?' And they wrote 'this is . . . ' and didn't write anything else, and got an A for it.

Surely that's a myth?

[Mosaic]

The other tale is: exam question: what is a question? star student answers: if that is a question, then this is an answer.
All sounds a bit dodgy to me. Don't believe everything you hear.

[squarebear]

Nobody would get any sort of mark (apart from a bad one) for writing that.

[mollykins]

exactly, they'd want an answer that included stuff like; fear, selflessness, heroism, and debated which was the msot important aspect and yarda yarda yarda.

[sophie_1003]

There's another one of these where the question was "Why?" and the 'A' answer was "Why not?" think these must be myths!

[lucca]

Not so long ago a student (I think GCSE) just wrote "f**k off" on his paper and got a pass grade for expressing himself, and for correct spelling.
!!!!!!!!!

[Mosaic]

Lucca, I can absolutely and totally assure you that this story is made up. Pupils, especially immature teenagers, sometimes write abuse on their answer papers. Examiners have strict guidance as to how to deal with this. It does not in any way include accrediting it as contributing positively to their grade.

[sophie_1003]

On our RE GCSE paper there was a question about how did the disciples recognise Jesus after he rose again or something like that) my friend put "He had an 'I am Jesus' badge and a heavenly glow around his head" Not sure of his grade though!

[scotman]

This one has always appealed to me.

http://www.pinetree.n...r/thermodynamics.html

[Mamyalynne]

Scotman that is a belter.

[mollykins]

And there's the classic, 'find x' and they circle it and say 'there it is.'

[mollykins]

I got a book full of silly answers from exam papers.

[saxy_jag]

A lecturer once told me that a colleague of his (it's always a friend of a friend, isn't it?) was so traumatised during an exam that he stood up and walked out muttering, "I'm an orange, I'm an orange!".

[mollykins]

Crikey.

[Whickerman]

My favourite one is the philosophy exam that started with a professor marching in, placing a chair in the middle of the hall, and announcing that the exam had one part - the students must prove the existence of the chair.
Story goes that the A went to the one student who simply wrote "What chair?"