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What students understood?
These are actual excerpts from student science exam papers:
l* The dodo is a bird that is almost decent by now. l* To remove air from a flask, fill it with water, tip the water out, and put the cork in quick before the air can get back in. l* The process of turning steam back into water again is called conversation. l* A magnet is something you find crawling all over a dead cat. l* The Earth makes one resolution every 24 hours. l* Parallel lines never meet, unless you bend one or both of them. l* Algebriaical symbols are used when you do not know what you are talking about. l* A circle is a line which meets its other end without ending. l* The pistol of a flower is its only protection against insects. l* The moon is a planet just like the Earth, only it is even deader. l* We believe that the reptiles came from the amphibians by spontaneous generation and study of rocks. l* Dew is formed on leaves when the sun shines down on them and makes them perspire. l* A super-saturated solution is one that holds more than it can hold. l* A triangle which has an angle of 135 degrees is called an obscene triangle. l* Blood flows down one leg and up the other. l* A person should take a bath once in the summer, and not quite so often in the winter. l* The hookworm larva enters the human body through the soul. l* When you haven�t got enough iodine in your blood you get a glacier. l* It is a well-known fact that a deceased body harms the mind. l* Humans are more intelligent than beasts because the human branes have more convulsions. l* For fractures: to see if the limb is broken, wiggle it gently back and forth. l* To remove dust from the eye, pull the eye down over the nose. |
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