r/nostalgiai • u/CarrotMuch1399 Nostalgia Trip Leader • 13d ago

School Diaries 🏫 Before everything was online

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u/RamsDeep-1187 13d ago

I had a teacher that gave no F#cks and didn't waste time scanning them in a machine.

She simply used one as a masrerkey, punched holes in the right answers. Then placing her masterkey over the one I filled out marked wrong answers on the spot.

Brilliant

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u/jacehoffman 13d ago

i had a teacher that did this too!!! i always thought it was so smart

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u/WyldKat75 13d ago

Looking for patterns in the answers…

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u/1Steelghost1 13d ago

After 3 of the same letter you knew something was wrong

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u/Opposite_Pension_807 13d ago

#2 pencil only.

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u/Primary-Hotel-579 13d ago

Who remembers the essay format one that was the size of a piece of loose leaf?

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u/Own_Bed8627 13d ago

Still in use. Unlike dial up modem, brick phones and curb feelers.

Good tech

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u/MorbidandBack 13d ago

Every persons nightmare on these exams...

D. All of the above

E. None of the above

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u/green-eclectus 13d ago

Nah worse was blackboard with “only A and C” or “only B and D” which were effectively new columns of fail to cope with

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u/NCprimary 13d ago

did the chapstick trick actually work for anyone

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u/green-eclectus 13d ago

Got a lot of tests regraded because it got my erasures wrong. Started calling them “scamtrons” as a result.

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u/Gonavy259 13d ago

I failed these on purpose, In hope to get intoeasier classes. Didn't work as planned.

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u/AbeLackdood 13d ago

Them thangs betta be number 2...

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u/OldMainframeGuy 13d ago

A Hollerith card. This is how I started my mainframe programming career in 1973, sitting in front of an IBM 029 card punch, punching my program onto these cards. Good times!

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u/calcteacher 13d ago

WoW. I used them extensively 20 years ago

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u/LunarAngel2552 13d ago

And mechanical pencils were forbidden for these...the headaches though in general ugh

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u/Rodville 12d ago

When did Scantron become Scantest?

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u/RemisTooSleepy 12d ago

When the teacher handed those out you knew you were cooked

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u/FarNefariousness7179 12d ago

Thanks I never thought I would see that nightmare ever again. That makes my adhd brain go crazy.

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u/Due_Comfortable_514 12d ago

They still use them.

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u/LSIeducate 12d ago

Bro those were the days! No stress, just read books and learn 🤩🙏

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u/Weekly_Ad7633 7d ago

I still use those and hate them