Teachers of Reddit reveal the funniest exam answers they ever received from students
Answers include how dietary fibre help in digestion, the ‘heaviest gas’ and made-up quotes to a religious exam
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Your support makes all the difference.Grading papers can be a thankless, gruelling task for teachers but once in a while, they come by something hilarious.
Teachers are posting the most hilarious exam answers they’ve ever received from students, from made-up answers to apologies, to embarrassing mix-ups.
Over 2,000 comments have been posted on the Reddit thread, titled “Teachers of Reddit, what’s the funniest answer you’ve come across while grading papers?”
The most-voted for answer, which appears at the top, is by a teacher by the username smellyunderpants, who wrote: “A third grader’s homework was to define [vocabulary] words, and one of them was ‘parent’.
“His definition: ‘Adults who own you’.”
Another teacher, Mattelaide, had a student answer the question “List three different gases” with : “Air. Farts. Gravity.”
One user observed: “Ah yes, gravity, the heaviest of gases.”
When it came to the question of how eating fibre helps with digestion, one student came up with a very straightforward answer.
Reddit user iamkayfc said their student answered with: “It smoothens the s**t”, to which another user pointed out: “Well… it’s not wrong.”
One teacher had a rather unorthodox method of giving student “fun” bonus questions on her tests.
The bonus question was to draw Santa Claus with his sleigh and reindeer, “but instead replace the reindeer with very large ducks”.
User Shurtugal929 noted a particular student “clearly didn’t study” and instead devoted their time to drawing this masterpiece:
Learning new languages can be really tough, particularly if you don’t study for the exams.
One student thought she could get away with not doing the exam by apologising, using lines from Disney movie, Mulan.
She wrote on a Japanese quiz: “I don’t know, I’m sorry, I didn’t study, dishonour on my family and my cow.”
Even religious exams were not safe from silly answers. User Granary_Oaf wrote of a student who made up a quote, seemingly one of God’s commandments, as: “The Bible says ‘Thou shalt not lotto’.”
Mixing up words is also a common mistake, but this student’s answer took the (pan)cake.
User CantFindMyWallet requested students use the vocabulary word ‘usurp’ in a sentence.
One student answered: “I usurp on my pancakes.”
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