Nearly a decade ago I marked an examination paper on a subject I was lecturing and also heading in one of my prior institutions. This was an international examination, and the candidates sitting for my paper numbered in the several thousands from all around Asia.
I remembered the answers in one particular script weren’t very good. In fact, the candidate probably realized that he (or she?) wasn’t going to do very well, and I think this was one of my own lecture group students. Why? Because on the very last page of his answers, he wrote the following:
“Mr. Foo, I know you’re marking this paper. Please please please pass me because this is my last semester!!”
Not that I actually knew exactly who he was, because all the candidates were identified only by their student admin number.
But that’s about the extent of strange answers I get in my 14 years being an educator. Other educators around the world though have very different experiences, and someone even did a collection of it here. Here’s a sample from that web page:
Be warned though: some of those samples are a mite vulgar, if innocently so. Also, many of those samples seem to come from mathematical assessments, which leads one to wonder maybe assessments in that subject sees the strangest answers.:)
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