A surreal test Experience.

[Stanislaw]

Heh, anybody have any weird test exp.

Today while writing one o my finals, An orchestra was practicing in the room directly above ours, and the test was accompanied by some most lovely and skillfully played Wagner and bethoven! It was really realxing!
:)
any one else ave such an experience?

[Basil]

I took a midterm once while a quartet of leaf blowers performed right outside the window. Despite their lively performance, I remained uninspired and got a 'C' on the test. I'm such a philistine.

[Virgil]

I took a midterm once while a quartet of leaf blowers performed right outside the window. Despite their lively performance, I remained uninspired and got a 'C' on the test. I'm such a philistine.
Oh, Basil. You are such a character!!! :lol: :lol:

[Virgil]

I took a midterm once while a quartet of leaf blowers performed right outside the window. Despite their lively performance, I remained uninspired and got a 'C' on the test. I'm such a philistine.
Oh my God, Basil. Where did you get the avatar of Robert Johnson? I love him. That is so much better than the old woman you had.

[Petrarch's Love]

My most unusual exam experience was probably the one where three guys ran into our final wearing nothing but sombreros (I mean nothing at all) and singing in spanish along to a recording of a mariachi band on a boombox. It was rather distracting. I've also had the, much more pleasant, experience of music playing in the background during an exam. Once the university orchestra was rehearsing a piece by Beethovan during a Romantic poetry midterm and I got so caught up in the music that I ended up doing an analysis of one of the poems in relation to the music of the Romantic era. Afterward my prof. wondered where I got the inspiration from. :lol:

[Basil]

My most unusual exam experience was probably the one where three guys ran into our final wearing nothing but sombreros (I mean nothing at all) and singing in spanish along to a recording of a mariachi band on a boombox. It was rather distracting.
They must have been really fancy sombreros to be so distracting . . .

[Nightshade]

errr does exploding yeast count??
Oh I now in my year 9 tests ( which are a big deal in Egypt) we even had to go to a test centre in another school anyway so We do our test then they collecttthe paprs so everyone is twisting in their chairs discussing and finding out what they did wrong... then they gave us the papers back!
Apparntly they collected then half an hour early... so I said thanks but they could keep mine becasues I wasnt changing my answers becasue and this examiner tells me not to be so stupid and if Im worried about it moraaly just say God forgive me and do it anyway :eek2:
Petrach did you find out why they barged into the test?

[Petrarch's Love]

They must have been really fancy sombreros to be so distracting . . .

They were more impressed with their sombreros than we were. :lol:


Petrach did you find out why they barged into the test?
Never got a reason, so I'm assuming they were just young, silly, and probably seniors. The professor--a religious studies prof. who wore a different colored yamaka every day--thought the whole thing was hilarious, so no one got in trouble.


errr does exploding yeast count??

Exploding yeast? When did that happen?

[Nightshade]

Biology practicle test-- respiration I think but it was high summer in cairo and the english examiners hadnt taken into account the weather and the broken AC so the yeast either died saright off and didnt do anything or frizzled and popped and overflowed till it was all ver the exam paper and test tubes went kaput :S

[papayahed]

I had to do a make up test, it was the monday after the time change - my professor forgot and showed up an hour late.

oh wait, my first engineering class the professor already had the reputation of being very "mellow", we were suppossed to have a test but he forgot the test papers so he had us do the problems from the book - ya know the ones we already did for homework.

[Apotropaic]

One happened to my friend. While taking a test, some peevish wind decided to blow his test paper out the window :D Needless to say, new papers and a race against time followed soon after.

[simon]

In my finals I've had people puke from nervousness and guys run through the gym naked as well, but that sad bit is that nobody noticed as we were all so intent on our exams. I didn't even know anything had happened until the after exam...intoxication.

[RobinHood3000]

Once, I was taking an Lit test, and one of the girls in my class (blonde, by the way) piped up and asked, "How do you spell 'finger'?"

[Virgil]

My most unusual exam experience was probably the one where three guys ran into our final wearing nothing but sombreros (I mean nothing at all) and singing in spanish along to a recording of a mariachi band on a boombox. It was rather distracting. I've also had the, much more pleasant, experience of music playing in the background during an exam. Once the university orchestra was rehearsing a piece by Beethovan during a Romantic poetry midterm and I got so caught up in the music that I ended up doing an analysis of one of the poems in relation to the music of the Romantic era. Afterward my prof. wondered where I got the inspiration from. :lol:
How come it's always guys who do stupid things like this? I guess it wouldn't have distracted me in the same way, but I sure would have been doubled over in laughter. :lol:

[IrishCanadian]

In highschool one of my science teachers gave a 2% bonus to any male who came in wearing a red or yellow dress. Threre was something for the females too but no one did it. Oh, my sociology course last term was in the same building as the music department. so I studied every day with the accompany ment of vocal arpegios and once Madam Buterfly.

[Stanislaw]

errr does exploding yeast count??
Oh I now in my year 9 tests ( which are a big deal in Egypt) we even had to go to a test centre in another school anyway so We do our test then they collecttthe paprs so everyone is twisting in their chairs discussing and finding out what they did wrong... then they gave us the papers back!
Apparntly they collected then half an hour early... so I said thanks but they could keep mine becasues I wasnt changing my answers becasue and this examiner tells me not to be so stupid and if Im worried about it moraaly just say God forgive me and do it anyway :eek2:
Petrach did you find out why they barged into the test?


oh man, I had something like that happen for my history midterm...we were studying charlemagne and the marovingians, and after about 30 mins into the test...the fire alarm went off (it was a fire drill), so outside we began talking about the test thinking the teacher would scrap it, but when we got back inside...the teacher told us to sit down and write the test! remarkably some people still failed. :( not me though...95! Oh man that was funny!

well, exploading yeast, never had that happen, but in a pre - lab final (it was a practice for the final) I blew up a jar of glucose and carmelized a hot plate...the lab tech was a little er, displeased. :D

I like the quartet of leafblowers though...I had a similar experience in jr. high...except with weedeaters!

[Nightshade]

Once, I was taking an Lit test, and one of the girls in my class (blonde, by the way) piped up and asked, "How do you spell 'finger'?"
Ahh but I think Ive already mentioned the time when I asked what 1+1 was out loud in maths test? And before you ask no Im not blonde or well not on the outside my sister will have it that Im "blonde inside my head"

[Stanislaw]

Ahh but I think Ive already mentioned the time when I asked what 1+1 was out loud in maths test? And before you ask no Im not blonde or well not on the outside my sister will have it that Im "blonde inside my head"

ai, I've done a thing like that...I was in a chem test, and I was pretty hyped about it, and I'm sitting there staring at this question, and to myself (in my head) I was like: "common stupid 2 +5 is what common!!!!!!" and then I realized...7, I took a breath and just sat for about five minutes, returned to the test, and completed it normally. :D

[AimusSage]

My most surreal experience has been a test which I did extremely well, exept when the bell rang and I woke up it turned out the forms were allmost empty.

[Nightshade]

ai, I've done a thing like that...I was in a chem test, and I was pretty hyped about it, and I'm sitting there staring at this question, and to myself (in my head) I was like: "common stupid 2 +5 is what common!!!!!!" and then I realized...7, I took a breath and just sat for about five minutes, returned to the test, and completed it normally. :D
Yeah but was t your first week in a new school and you asked it OUTLOUD in a class of rather ehemm picky girls??
:lol:

[Stanislaw]

Yeah but was t your first week in a new school and you asked it OUTLOUD in a class of rather ehemm picky girls??
:lol:

er no, I had been there a while already, and twas an evenly mixed class. :D

[SleepyWitch]

a friend and me had to give a presentation in PE/sports... the girls before us presented "foot gymnastics" and said you have to do it for half an hour everyday... never mind my big fat bum, as long as i do foot gymnastics I'll be fine???
anyway, my friend and me decided to present some warm-up exercises from her Aikido club... we practiced them somewhat half-heartedly... when we were about to get changed for the presentation in the locker room, we looked at each other and both said simultaneously "Let's go?". so we just left and went to town for some cappucino. a couple of weeks later, the teacher read out the marks. She gave us a C on our presentation.... erm, yep.. that was the best input-output ratio i ever managed on any exam...