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Not realy sure if I should laugh - but I did!

"simple sequencing of ideas"

Reminds me of what my philosophy teacher told me about a student getting full marks for the following.

Q: Is this a question?

Student: Only if this is an answer.

I´m sure it´s an urban myth but its the sort of nonsense that linguistic philosophers actually go in for

Both stories are very funny.

Reminds me of a tail told by a friend at another school concerning the setting of an english essay called "Courage", the protagonist wrote, "T.H.I.S. I.S. C.O.U.R.A.G.E" one letter on a page, 13 pages in all. Although now it would probably win a Turner Prize, I think the reward was a caning.

Personally I wrote poetry and drew cartoons all over my maths O'level exam papers, the head called me (he was head of maths) to give me a dressing down, presented me with the papers which were photocopied. Before he had a chance to get into full flow, I pointed out that the photocopies were breach of copyright, not only the Oxbridge exam papers, but also my poetry. That was the end of that conversation. I wish I had those copies now though LoL.

Heh, reminds me a little of my own maths exam, I mostly used sarcasm for my answers! Needless to say, I failed! The 'Courage' story is definitely an urban legend though, this makes about the fourth different version of it that I've heard lol

ocailleagh wrote:Heh, reminds me a little of my own maths exam, I mostly used sarcasm for my answers! Needless to say, I failed! The 'Courage' story is definitely an urban legend though, this makes about the fourth different version of it that I've heard lol

I thought as much on the urban ledgend, came from a public school kid, and I heard it in 1976 so its been around a while (secondary modern me LoL)

ocailleagh wrote:Heh, reminds me a little of my own maths exam, I mostly used sarcasm for my answers!

If you can do sarcastic maths I reckon you should be head of maths at Oxford no?

Sorry. Funny stories and urban myths aside, I think this is tragic. I achieved the dizzy heights of a U in my O level history exam (< 10%, so basically "turned up an wrote her name on the paper") because I was in a mixed O level and CSE group and the teacher taught us all the CSE paper. Whilst it covered the same period of history, it didn't cover the same topics. And to my mind it wasn't history anyway, since it was 1914-1976! That's politics, not history.

And Oxbridge exams are the Oxford and Cambridge entrance exams (do they even still have them? I remember doing them in UVI3 at school, including the Latin paper). Oxford and Cambridge board O levels (I did O and C Latin) aren't the same thing at all.

Oh no! Pedantic again.
Lynne

lsm - Yay - a fellow "u"er! I hated history but revised really really really hard and honestly thought that I'd done pretty well in the exam! Ho Hum - guess I was stupid after all!!
TBH I do think that if we'd had the audacity to write anything more than a Shakesperian expletive (and he was good at them!) in an exam paper we would have been given a U and most likely been investigated by the law! But oh how times have changed!

The use of that Expletive can make you a TV star now a days, which in my approved school days would got you a thump along side the ear, have'nt we come a long way?