What students understood?

Astute Accountant · #1 Thursday, June 07, 2012

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.