The TEST

[Dana Grant]

At Duke University, there were four sophomores taking Chemistry and they all had an "A" so far. These four friends were so confident that the weekend before finals, they decided to visit some friends and have a big party.

They had a great time, but after all the hearty partying; they slept all day Sunday and didn't make it back to Duke until early Monday morning.

Rather than taking the final then, they decided that after the final they would explain to their professor why they missed it. They said that they visited friends but on the way back they had a flat tire. As a result, they missed the final.

The Professor agreed they could make up the final the next day. The guys were excited and relieved.

They studied that night for the exam. The Professor placed them in separate rooms and gave them a test booklet. They quickly answered the first problem worth 5 points. Cool, they thought. Each one in separate rooms, thinking this was going to be easy.

Then they turned the page... on the second page was written:

"For 95 points: Which tire?"

[Cecil Wallace]

Funny.
That'll teach 'em!

[Joanne Vergin]

Excellent. I will have to remember that one in case I ever teach College.

[Joel Merrill]

The Flat one

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[Marsha Lynn]

Dana, a retiree from my church had that exact experience when he was in high school shop class many years ago! I heard him telling someone about it just last Sunday evening in the church kitchen.

I'm thinking that students must pull the same stunts a lot and teachers/professors must all get their smarts from the same pot. This man's shop teacher was even smarter than the Duke professor. He got around Joel's solution by having them draw a rectangle on their paper with four ovals at its corners and then told them which end of the rectangle was the front of the car and had them place an X on the correct tire.

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At Duke University, there were four sophomores taking Chemistry and they all had an "A" so far. These four friends were so confident that the weekend before finals, they decided to visit some friends and have a big party.

They had a great time, but after all the hearty partying; they slept all day Sunday and didn't make it back to Duke until early Monday morning.

Rather than taking the final then, they decided that after the final they would explain to their professor why they missed it. They said that they visited friends but on the way back they had a flat tire. As a result, they missed the final.

The Professor agreed they could make up the final the next day. The guys were excited and relieved.

They studied that night for the exam. The Professor placed them in separate rooms and gave them a test booklet. They quickly answered the first problem worth 5 points. Cool, they thought. Each one in separate rooms, thinking this was going to be easy.

Then they turned the page... on the second page was written:

"For 95 points: Which tire?"

[Michael B. Ross]

Unfortunately, it is not uncommon for a students to try deceiving me regarding their work. Frankly, most of them are so poor at it, that I take it personally--like I am an idiot.

Yesterday, a student came to me after class and told me that he had emailed me his paper due last week. I told him I had not received it, but he assured me had sent it.

I asked when he would be back to his room and have access to his computer. He told me about 7:30 last evening. No problem, I told him. Just re-send the document. He told me he would. Then I told him to just forward the first email with the document attached. Then, there would be two time stamps: last night's time and the date and time of the first email. His face turned blank. Needless to say, I didn't get an email from him last night.

At Duke University, there were four sophomores taking Chemistry and they all had an "A" so far. These four friends were so confident that the weekend before finals, they decided to visit some friends and have a big party.

They had a great time, but after all the hearty partying; they slept all day Sunday and didn't make it back to Duke until early Monday morning.

Rather than taking the final then, they decided that after the final they would explain to their professor why they missed it. They said that they visited friends but on the way back they had a flat tire. As a result, they missed the final.

The Professor agreed they could make up the final the next day. The guys were excited and relieved.

They studied that night for the exam. The Professor placed them in separate rooms and gave them a test booklet. They quickly answered the first problem worth 5 points. Cool, they thought. Each one in separate rooms, thinking this was going to be easy.

Then they turned the page... on the second page was written:

"For 95 points: Which tire?"

[Dana Grant]

Unfortunately, it is not uncommon for a students to try deceiving me regarding their work. Frankly, most of them are so poor at it, that I take it personally--like I am an idiot.

Yesterday, a student came to me after class and told me that he had emailed me his paper due last week. I told him I had not received it, but he assured me had sent it.

I asked when he would be back to his room and have access to his computer. He told me about 7:30 last evening. No problem, I told him. Just re-send the document. He told me he would. Then I told him to just forward the first email with the document attached. Then, there would be two time stamps: last night's time and the date and time of the first email. His face turned blank. Needless to say, I didn't get an email from him last night.


OH THAT WAS GOOOOOOOD, VERY GOOD!!

When I logged on to NazNet today and saw that I had been the original poster of THE TEST, I thought I was going crazy -- I did not remember posting it -- then I saw that the original post was March 2006 -- sigh of relief that I was not losing my mind completely today!! HA HA

[Joanne Vergin]

Dana,
I have been looking at the old stuff. I brought it back up to the fore.