One thing that I absolutely appreciate about being an adult is the remarkable lack of tests I have to take on a regular basis. I think we can all agree that no matter how well you study, tests are a stressful experience, and waiting for the results, while you and your classmates compare the test answers you submitted, can truly drive you mad. And I don’t know about you, but I can be fairly certain that my teachers wouldn’t have appreciated funny answers on a test. Not even in elementary school.
There has been a lot of discussion in the modern psychology of education about whether the right answers to test questions really reflect the student’s knowledge. And though many scientists have come to the conclusion that there are a ton of factors that can influence wrong answers, tests remain a universal way of evaluating knowledge. So here’s hoping that one day the teachers of the world will find a better method.
The students whose answers we collected below were not only resourceful but also lucky. They might have felt like giving funny test answers or just didn’t know the correct one, but it definitely didn’t stop them from giving their honest opinions. And who knows, they might have even gotten away with it.
Which one of these fun answers did you like the most? Have you ever given a funny test answer yourself? What was it? Definitely let us know in the comments, and don’t forget to mention the teacher’s reaction too.
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Best One Today
Name The Flag
As our danish Crownprince would say when asked: are you finnish(ed)? No i'm danish....
i would've been like, "Technically, yes. According to the rubric, no. half-credit"
I Was Doing Homework When I Did This
I Had Extra Time On My Math Test, So I Offered A Proposal, And This Was His Reply
Yes! I love how he did a dog instead and then comments "don't judge me" that's a great teacher:)
My Wife Is A Teacher And Found This While Marking An Assessment
It's a tick, so correct. Incorrect would get an X.
Load More Replies...Like this comment if you think that there should be no more tests because of this.
Hehe Make Me Laugh
me with the whole animal gange behind me * we like to? MOVE IT MOVE IT!!
Words Of The Week
At least they were polite and wrote f word instead of spelling it out lol
I'll Be Shocked If They Mark The Answer Incorrect
My favorite answer! Autobots wage their battle to destroy the evil forces of the Decepticons!
Astronomy
All gas planets, with multiple moons, and all giant (Jovian) compared to earth. Do I get an A++++++ like Ralphie?
am i the only one that gets that reference XD
Load More Replies...how do they know uranus has no mcdonalds? they haven't been to uranus or my anu-
My Little Cousin Nails A Test Question
to be fair if a 9 year old kid can lift 97 pounds how is he not on steroids
Friend Of Mine's Math Teacher Responds To A Doodle He Drew On His Test
Because Math
I did this all the time- whenever they asked me to show how i got my answer i would just draw a little calculator. my teacher did not like this.
Once I had the even worse follow up which was “explain why your answer was not eleven” my smart@ss response “because I got it right”
Load More Replies...Remember when teachers would proudly stand at the front of the class and tell everyone how you won't always have a calculator with you? Huh.
Can't Blame The Answerer
So the military can steal our money (speaking about 'MeRiCa rn)
Well us muricans pay taxes so the government can steal all our money
Found This In A Book My Sister Who Is A Teacher Gave My Dad About Real Test Questions And Real Answers Given By Students
the title of this picture is impossible to read 😭 bro my AdHD eyes gave up after three words
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
*right (edit: not being mean i can't help it)
Load More Replies...as a person who is hyperfixated on American revolution stuff i can confirm this 👍🏻
My Sister Teaches 5th Grade. Nice Try, Jackie
what if everyone whited it out would the teacher forget it was there
I used to do this, but write a slightly different worded question on top of it, roughly the same size and content, except edit it a bit, so if it said, write a paragraph about the importance of clear and concise grammar, I would put maybe instead, about a imaginative grandma. I don't know why, I guess the whole point was to wow them into giving me a scholarship, 10000000 percent, and be named the cleverest and most imaginative person in the world. I was always confused as to why it didn't work.
Honesty In My Son's Homework
yo if this was my homework and i didn't find it until i got home I would be sitting at the table for HOURS
My Daughter Asked Me To Check Over Her Homework. She's 7. I've Never Been Prouder
Bacon is, indeed, good. (Except for the sorry excuse for bacon that most fast-food places offer. I can't stand that greyish, floppy c**p.)
Load More Replies...Imagine living in a mansion AND eating bacon. I would also employ someone to cook the bacon, and if they didn't make it crispy, they'd get the sack!
My Son, The Patriot
An American Eagle... Is a frequently misnamed bird and is in fact called a "Bald Eagle".
fun fact, the piercing screech you usually hear with a visual of a bald eagle is actually the sound of the red-tailed hawk! they dub it over because bald eagles don't sound very intimidating. (they sound kinda like giant seagulls with cackling laughs)
Load More Replies...One Of My Friends Just Sent Me Her Kids Homework. After The Answer At The Bottom, I Realize This Kid Is Going Places
Smart kid. I've never been more scared than I was in 3rd grade and Darth Vader visited our school on Halloween. He was the guard at the entrance to the haunted house (well, library). I was literally shaking. Not because I was scared of the haunted tour about to take place, but because of Darth Vader. I mean, only a few months before I watched him slice off Luke's hand.
it's all fun in games until DARTH VADER COMES *star wars imperial march song intensifies*
Math Problem Solved
well technically they said it could be as simple as you want so yeah
They'll Be Sorry
My Mom Found One Of My Old Tests From Almost 20 Years Ago
There's a lot of difference between the options. Suppose Grandad is still alive and you know he's 75, that isn't about 50.
It's closer to 50 than 500. It's meant to be teaching about units, tens and hundreds. (Edit - unless Grandad is Gandalf, I suppose)
Load More Replies...my grandfather is dead years old but he is not 50, 5, or 500 years old
I’ve Been Waiting For Years To Make This Joke, Got Opportunity On A Math Assignment
My Friend Draws On Students' Test When They Get 100%
Well It Didn't Say It Had To Be Analog
trying to figure out how this is wrong. seems like the kid answered the question.
anyway they said draw a SMALL clock. That is not small compared to the box that surrounds the question.
they should have said ANALOG clock. honestly, it's the teacher's fault
Malicious Compliance
Step, shuffle, ball, change. The official Tap names of the steps that the dog is performing. Extra points for the really good drawing.
Ah, algebra. Or geometry? y = mx + b was algebra, but triangles was geometry.
it is a sketch of a tap dog but is it reasonable? heck no! do i care? HECK NO!
I Was Marking My Students Tests And One Did This
and the best part is that you can see that they tried but gave up and erased it.
Load More Replies...My Professor Enjoys Writing His Own Test Questions/Answers
I DIDN’T NOTICE UNTIL I READ YOUR COMMENT, IF I WERE DRINKING SOMETHING I WOULD’VE SPIT IT OUT
Load More Replies...I had a teacher in Illinois HS who would have an extra credit question at the end of each test. His favorite was: who's buried in Grant's tomb. I couldn't believe the number of kids who missed the answer.
Ulysses S Grant, duh! IT EVEN SAYS IT IN THE QUESTION!
Load More Replies...teenagers likely see the elderly as a reminder of the inevitability that time will consume everything they love and utter emptiness awaits their souls. well that's dark
If Only...
If I'm mathing right, the "real" answer is x=2.31
Load More Replies...Our tests always directed us to 'solve for x', probably to avoid this.
My son had a T-shirt with a picture of a School for Gifted Students. A boy keeps trying to push the door open to enter, completely ignoring the large sign that says Pull to open.
Load More Replies...At Least He/She Wants To Retake The Test
I want to know the size of the banana car. Does anyone know what we could use for scale?
How many bananas does it take to build a car? 🍌🍌🍌🍌🍌? Do plantains count?
Very Well
What do you mean? The apostrophe is there, it's quite large, landed on the line above.
Load More Replies...The True Geniuses Were Always Doubted
This is actually the correct answers.... if they didn't want those those answers... don't make the trick-ones!!! I could have done this... High IQ and follow the rules 🤷♀️
Ikr. Nowhere does it say test numbers are excluded. 😉
Load More Replies...Well, I Answered The Question. Kind Of
Funny Answers
K-4 Children Have The Funniest Answers
Hey kid you want some babies? That came out way weirder than I wanted it too.
i'm assuming the child didn't know how to write so the teacher wrote it
Load More Replies...School Orientation. Wife Thought My Answer Was Funny, But I'm Surprised She Actually Wrote It
These Tests Are Getting Easier And Easier
Hi Charlie, you're looking rectangular today, but Sophia is just around.
I Am A Film Student. This Was A Question On My Sound Recording Test
This question doesn't even make sense to begin with.
Load More Replies...False, tis' witchcraft how you can talk into it and your voice comes from somewhere else. /J
9-Year-Old Student With Some Standardized Test Sass
I did a similar thing, but I wrote “YOU CAN’T STOP ME” under it with a cat face next to it
So it's better not to tell the students not to write outside the box, if you don't want the comments.
OMG i remember these tests on the paper where you fill in the bubble exactly perfet, but now it is all digital
What Is A Monopoly?
I knew about the board game for years, then one day I heard the word monopoly used on the TV news. They obviously were,'t talking about the game, but it still took me a while to find out what it meant.
This Kid Gets It
Do you not speak Mispronounced Spelling? You must learn it it is a very fun language
Load More Replies...My Son's Best Answer This Week
I’d Say This Was The Correct Answer
A slap? Tracey had better f*****g run if she wants her bones still attached
Depends on what the antecedent of that confusing vague ambiguous pronoun "she" refers to. Tracey would end up with 7 while Rachel would end up with 9 left. Slap only the pronoun, not the persons nor the nouns.
Sounds Fun
Well Yes But Actually No
yeah if he didn't write ball he would still get it right
Load More Replies...It sems strange to ask for the length of a round object, I thought you would ask for the circumference or something.
< Or >
Sometimes The Kids Surprise Me With Their Wit And Wisdom. Other Times, They Just Make Me Laugh. At Least He Tried
Homework Question Response From A 7-8 Year Old
This sounds like SoMtHiNg I did in 1st grade it was like a chart I had to put words in alphabetical order or smth like that and I got confused Bc I didn’t know what to do so I just wrote “I do not know how to do this” and gave it to the teacher she just explained the whole thing
Early this year my youngest brought her homework to me for help because the question didn't make sense to her. Honestly, with all the other questions and examples on the page, it didn't make sense to me either. We came up to what we thought it was supposed to be. Only one person in the entire class got that one right. But, she still hasn't let me help with homework since. I was demoted to the non-homework parent. 🥺
I'm in Calc BC with a 96 average and I also don't get what the question means.
Y’all Think I’m Passing My Driving Test Or No?
The test writers wanted to save the small children's parents the cost of college.
Load More Replies...You will pass and with it you will become a verynpowerfull weapon of mass destruction
Optional Album Title
The Anglo-Zanzibar War??? I mean, it started and finished on the 27th August. Shortest known war in history IIRC.
My Little Brother Did This In Kindergarten
Slightly annoyed by "the best thing she cooks", because it assumes all mothers must cook. Classic sexism.
Well, maybe the same question is on the Dad one. I mean all adults should be able to cook something.
Load More Replies...*brothers (he's also my younger brother this seems like he would write that but sloppier)
Load More Replies...No, Linus just signed it at the end. The teacher transcribed the rest.
Load More Replies...My Sisters Answer
The heart at the bottom of the question mark to ensure it's a friendly question mark >>
When I had these assignments and I hated it and had no favorite part I would draw me being carried away by the Question Marksmen
This would be me! My mum once had to come into school because a famous children’s author had visited and my question was “Did you ever try doing something other than writing?” I would have been in big trouble but my teachers and my mum all found it funny. They were trying to make the “stern face” but without success.
I don't think she liked the story. Whatever the story is, I won't read it.
Living With Your Parents
The expression 'free press' must have made more sense back in the day when newspapers were typeset and printed on presses.
Why the down-vote, please? Newspapers are not produced on presses anymore, so I thought it's understandable if the child was confused.
Load More Replies...Science Test About Space, Ice Ice Baby
Oh, My Son… My Too Smart Son
I hate those questions where you need to show your work, if you got the right answer, why do you need to prove it?
This is just double the weird: 1. Show your work 2. Explain....I mean doesn't showing the work self-explain enough?
Load More Replies...one time i was feeing pretty gutsy on a test and I got that question and responded "I did my math right there u dumb b*ch" and got away with it cause' my teacher lost my paper :)
Smallest Number
All Of The Above
The same question was in the form I filled out to volunteer at a summer camp. The first time I had the question (before ant volunteering work) I sort of just bullshitted and exaggerated how involved I am with my little cousin. Now I can actually say I have experience
Homework
I actually cannot breathe right now, and I have to use the toilet as well! this is obviously the correct answer.
I'm concerned when he says "No toilet = die". Can't we just dig a hole?
If you don't shower you might be dirty, but why does that make you ugly?
Found Gold Double Checking My Nieces Spelling Homework!
My Friend Is An Elementary School Teacher Who Received This Test Back For Grading
My Homework: Write A Sentence That Contains More Useful Me
woah he is defiantly underage to use discord but he is talking facts
Funny Test Answer
This is a horrible example for teaching patterns. I assume the answer is 7, but...
You’ve been freed/Do you know hard it is to lead/You’re on your own/Awesome, wow/Do you have a clue what happens now
I think it might be 7 because add 2, add 2, add 1, add 1 but thats just a random guess
When You Didn't Study For The Test
This Kid Gets It
You Can't Make Me Answer Your Questions... Well Holy Hell
My Brother At Grade 2
My day not complete without the sound of a gun and a sword at some point. /s
and maybe one day your life will be complete from hearing a gun and a sword
Load More Replies...And this is a good indication of why there's a mass shooting almost every week...
I Was Really Into Mortal Kombat As A 6th Grader
Teacher: *While rubbing face and temple* Dang it, Shang Tsung, we have been over this!!! Quit with the soul-snatchings already!!! XP
No offense, but judging by the type of question and the handwriting methinks this was much younger than 6th grade lol
My handwriting is still on this level half the time tbh.
Load More Replies...Definitely Got That Right
My 6 Years Old Brother
This Belongs Here
Just Shut Up, Answer The Question, And Turn In Your Test
Who else is a grown a*s adult and still pronounces 'wed-nes-day' while they're writing it? We should've just stuck with odinsday.
Actually, Monday, because of the negative number (notice the minus sign in front of the -7.21?
I still don't know how to spell it honestly lmao I have to try a couple times before auto correct figures out that I'm trying to spell Wednesday before it gives me that option 😖
Kevin Has Too Many Stamps
Well Played, Medical Test
My Girlfriend Just Sent Me This From Her Physics Test
I definitely would have been confused about where the ducks came from. Similarly, in math, we had a chart showing how tall kids on a middle school basketball team were in inches. It ranged from 66 in (5'5) to 84 in (7 foot).
66 inches is five feet and six inches, not 5'5.
Load More Replies...This was in the new eureka math books. Only in the students though.
Alert The Media, Everyone
The Best Answer I Got
No. They appear to twinkle a bit because of the atmosphere. But never blink
Load More Replies...How can stars appear to blink, if we can't see their eyes? Am I missing something here?
A Kid Asked The Dinosaur Can They Poop
Yes we do! We don't fancy exploding in a fountain of poop
Load More Replies...This Man Is Too Dangerous To Be Kept Alive
But there is an angle, and it isn't a straight line.
Load More Replies...Gas Gas Gas
Today's Sign Of The Apocalypse: 9 Year Olds Hash-Tagging Their Spelling Tests.
Worse, two apostrophes, but I suppose the teacher had already set a bad example.
Load More Replies...Saturday Night Grading Can Be Rewarding
My Test Answer Oh My God
Italy Invaded Which African Country In The 1930s?
but they didn't suceed! speaking as a fellow ethiopian
Load More Replies...Yeah, they got tired of being excluded on American maps!
Load More Replies...My Friends Answers On His Tests. I Can Already See The F Coming
From Mickey’s Math Test… Aside From Not Drawing A Picture, Is He Really Wrong Though?
Radiohead
I see a person of class and taste. I LOVE Radiohead, and now have exit music for a film in my head.
Was Asked To Complete A Lab With Close To 200 Skittles
My Friend Wrote This
I would 100% get in trouble if I wrote this on a student's paper. Inappropriate even if the teacher was trying to be funny.
drawn towards a cross? More like being captured by romans and tortured and died permanently.
Listening Comprehension - Correct Answer Was "Actor Or Writing Screen Plays"
Well, I don't know. Riding a scream place is a perfectly normal doing. Have any of you pandas tried it?
I mean, if you ask for my mother's opinion on my driving, she'd tell you riding as a passenger in my van is "riding a scream place" XD
Load More Replies...Maybe teacher spoke with a lisp? Sometimes the teacher's accent or pronunciation is the problem. My 4th grade teacher, teaching math, used to ask "what do you like?" I didn't have a clue. Much later I realized she was saying "lack" but her deep southern accent made it weird.
This. I had teachers that talked into the blackboard when writing on it. Add my hearing loss, it was a struggle at times
Load More Replies...Funny Math Answer
"How did you know to regroup?" makes it fairly obvious that you would need to
I Know Were I’m Going On Vacation!
My knowledge of the location of U.S States is VERY limited. I'm positive it's the one with San Francisco & L.A in it... Is the state... California?
the US in my brain is basically all New York and disneyland (???) i don’t know how you americans keep track of all 50 of them
They might as well go to South Virginia, East Dakota, West Dakota, pay Taxes in Texas, round out both ends of Ohio, and find squiggles and humpbacks in Missississississississippi before going on to Canada to Manitoba and Womanitoba before heading east to both Nova Scotia and Yesva Scotia before retrieving the dog at Labrador.
Very Moisturising
Just in case anyone's interested, the top elements aren't naturally occuring, the bottom elements are gases
Does anybody else notice how the atomic number is in the bottom left instead of at the top?
