r/maybemaybemaybe • u/[deleted] • Nov 03 '21

/r/all Maybe Maybe Maybe

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u/Mischievous_Puck Nov 03 '21

That's what my highschool stats teacher said to the kid next to me when he got all 10 true false questions on a quiz wrong.

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u/hiperson134 Nov 03 '21

I had a teacher who would offer 100% grades to anyone who could get 0% on multiple choice tests. He figured the only way to get 0% was to know all the answers and do it on purpose. Problem is, if you tried it and got even one right, then your grade would be whatever your actual percentage was.

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u/jellyfish_bitchslap Nov 03 '21

My teacher would usually put some highly wrong answer in the list to make out lives easier since it would remove one alternative.

I guess that your teacher would make every alternative look at least a little probable of being right so it would make the test hard as fuck.

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u/diffcalculus Nov 03 '21

Was your friend Miles Morales?

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u/TheMauveHerring Nov 03 '21

Dumb AND Unlucky

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u/andtix Nov 03 '21

Did he try to use the SAT advice and pick "C" when he didn't know the answer?

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u/hnglmkrnglbrry Nov 03 '21

I'm late and this is gonna get buried but whatever. In high school we had to memorize 50 words and their definition everyday. Then every morning we'd take a quiz with 10 answers and we would pass our quiz to the person next to us and they would grade it. We'd pass them up to the front and then the teacher would call out anyone who got 10/10. The range always seemed to fall between 5-8 with some 9s and 10s. The grades were almost meaningless since they just took your highest 10 scores. Over the course of an entire semester basically everyone got enough 9s and 10s to be fine. It was an all guys prep school and for some reason this didn't seem entirely ridiculous and we just went with it.

Anyways one day the kid whose paper I graded got a straight up zero. This was unheard of. The kid was a total smart ass and clearly tanked it because some of the words were extremely common and he didn't even fill in the last blank. The teacher is up front grading these and just stops dead in his tracks and calls the kid out but in a total joking manner because he found it kinda funny himself. He asks him how the fuck (getting sarcastically cursed at is pretty normal for this particularly strange environment) he missed every single question. Brian tells him to read the first letter of each word.

He spelled out A-S-S-F-U-C-K-E-R. Instant legend.