Stupid Exam Questions

[edward]

Yeah, I think cdd is right, I think you messed the question, looks like it should be a probability styled question.

or it could be because he's doing Foundation Tier, designed for the C-grade student. mind you, as he doesn't even understand the question...

you're all lucky. did any of you had to take Additional Maths? it's not even a bloody GCSE...

[tillyoshea]

The most stupid one I've ever come across was on my exams last year. Bearing in mind I'm studying medicine:

"Examine the bus timetable provided, and suggest the easiest bus route for Patient A, who lives on Mandale Road, to get to the hospital for his 10am appointment."

[iSon]

The best one came from the excellent and much loved Edexcel. I sat down for my first physics paper and the first question.

"Physics is a broad science which encompasses many ideas. What is physics?"

Well I thought of it seriously and left it till the end but then realised I had my chance to set the tone for the whole paper and simply answered "It's a broad science which encompasses many ideas."

The same paper also included an 18 mark question (about 1/6 of the whole paper) which was unanswerable as they failed to include the displacement. Oh and labelled the unit of power as ohms. Cracking.

Bless you Edexcel. Bledexcel.

[Nick Harvey]

Bearing in mind I'm studying medicine

Ah, but medicine is a broad science which encompasses many ideas.

Sorry, just couldn't resist!

[Steven O]

From an SCE Home Economics Exam Paper a few years ago:

Q - List six places where you might have an accident in the kitchen.

A - Bonnyrigg, Lasswade, Newtongrange, Gorebridge, Dalkeith and Danderhall.



(It appears that if you want to minimise the risk of an accident happening in your kitchen, don't move to Midlothian!)

I often wonder how the examiner marking the question managed to keep a straight face.

[Anonymous]

surely some of the physicists here must have come across the question…

"Assuming the earth is flat, calculate the inductance (I think inductance) of current across an aeroplanes wings… blah blah blah… due to the earths magnetic field”
8)

[Sput]

surely some of the physicists here must have come across the question…

"Assuming the earth is flat, calculate the inductance (I think inductance) of current across an aeroplanes wings… blah blah blah… due to the earths magnetic field”
8)

That's an OK model, as you can assume the Earth is flat compared to the plane of the plane.