Student gets suspended for blowing off standardized test. What evil things have YOU done on tests?

[Geo]

This is in reference to this article: http://www.daytondailynews.com....htmlBasically this 3.8GPA honor student drew tic tac toe stuff, south park characters, and started a coughing fit during the exam. He's facing a 3 day in school suspension, kicked outta the school office and they want to take away his NHS membership.I think he's a hero, I hate standardized tests - they prove nothing.That's a different topic alltogether though. I'm curious as to what kinds of things any of you have done on tests that ... were not of the norm.I'll start out:Year or two ago, I was failing Calc 222. Failing badly, not just badly, but I think I set the curve on the lowest end. Needless to say, math was no longer my forté. On the final exam, I ended up drawing a bunch of stick figure cartoons, including one where a guy jumped off a cliff into a bunch of spikey rocks. It was pure art.I also wrote out the mathmatical equation to derive chocolate milk from a cow. I thought I could get a sympathy grade, but ended up failing anyways. Ah well. Grades for that sem: A, B, F. It's not like I wasn't trying, lol :DOne more story from a friend of mine (yes, this is true)He had a 50 question true false exam. Just to be a smart (removed), he answered every single question wrong. Every one. (obviously if you do that, you are just being a smart (removed)) Professor thought it was actually pretty intelligent, and he got an A. Funny stuff, I am looking to do that one of these days So, anyone have any stories along these lines, or have all of you been "good" student?

[Pablo1669]

in my highschool history class senior year, I had a 98 in the class, and the teacher told me if I did worse on my exam, it wouldn't hurt my grade. Not caring to improve upon a 98, I figured I'd just blow it off.Since my initials are B. D. C., you can only imagine what I thought the answers were. All the way down, B D C B D C. It made a nice little pattern down the scantron sheet. My teacher was 28 years old, he knew right away what I did and thought it was pretty funny. I think I got a 47% or something like that.

[Geo]

Quote, originally posted by Pablo1669 »in my highschool history class senior year, I had a 98 in the class, and the teacher told me if I did worse on my exam, it wouldn't hurt my grade. Not caring to improve upon a 98, I figured I'd just blow it off.Since my initials are B. D. C., you can only imagine what I thought the answers were. All the way down, B D C B D C. It made a nice little pattern down the scantron sheet. My teacher was 28 years old, he knew right away what I did and thought it was pretty funny. I think I got a 47% or something like that.What's funnier, is that you probably did better than some of the other kids in the class doing that

[msmyer]

Quote, originally posted by Geo »This is in reference to this article: http://www.daytondailynews.com....htmlThe Dayton Daily News....thats were I'm from! Quote, originally posted by Geo »So, anyone have any stories along these lines, or have all of you been "good" student? I get enough wrong on my own, I don't need to "fake" getting them wrong.... But, stanardized tests, do suck. I didn't do my best on the SAT's so I went to a community college first before I transfered to a univerisity, they don't look at ACT's or SAT's if your a transfer student.

[russ257]

i dont do anything crazy but i am a fast test taker. ie today i took a psyc exam 40q's i finished in 15 min and was the first done

[drunkenmaxx]

we had to take a test in 8th grade that was basically an anonomous thing to be used for statistics on jr high kids. i wrote "this sucks" and "**** you" on the test. the teachers got pissed and said that they could trace the name of the person from the numbers on the test and that whoever did it should come clean or face worse consequences. i knew better. there was no way they could ever find out who filled out that test, it was anonomous and teachers don't have the authority to check something like that. pretty damn funny.

[cibomatto]

I don't know if I agree with the way this kid handled the test. He is a smart kid yes although what was he trying to prove by doing these things? I can only imagine that there were other test takers so the coughing fits must have disturbed the other students. I think it was proper to suspend him. If you have a point to prove find the most effective way to prove that point rather then be destructive and get yourself suspnded. I would of taken the test and done poorly and point out that SATs are not fair tests. Or perhaps not show up. In my time SATs were optional.. is this still the case?

[drunkenmaxx]

yes you don't have to take the SCT (here it is the ACT). as a matter of fact, i didn't take it!. this was probably one of those equivilency (sp?) tests where they see how the states students stand as a group.

[joatmon]

The article says "The test at Garfield, as well as Akron's other high schools, is designed to study whether seniors at each school are performing better than the class before them." so it was a tool that the school system uses to try to put some kind of number on their performance as teachers, to get some way to compare one year to another. There are a lot of money allocations that result from these standardized tests, If he disrupted the test for other people also, his innocent prank might mean that that school will get less money next year. Shows no respect for the teachers that will still be there next year. He deserved to be punished.My kids would do it just to get the three days off school.

[Geo]

I like to look at like this: He did a greater service to the school by messing with the exam itself, then getting every answer wrong.Since he did what he did, he showed that he thought these standardized tests are crap, and he made his test void as well - it didn't bring down the average of the entire school.Had he turned it in all wrong, that means average goes down, and school gets less money - thus hurting everyone more. I personally think it is wrong to use tests to grade teachers with, I went to highschool that was the main one in my city, ~2000 kids or so. There were some absolutly wonderful teachers there. The problem comes from all the damn kids who don't give a **** on whether or not they are there. That's my beef with these tests, they are a waste of everyone's time.Look at the # of kids getting accepted into colleges and SAT/ACT scores - that should be good enough to see how well the kids are learning throughout highschool. Get the parents involved in schools more, they will be the first to tell you a teacher isn't teaching well. Cutting a week or two out of a lesson plan to take "standardized tests" is a disservice to the students, I had to take them - I only wish I was as much of a smart (removed) now as I wasn't then. I would've had alot more fun those weeks ... I would much rather be learning than reciting useless "standardized" answers.