How To Fail A Final Exam With Flying Colors
If you're going to go down, go down with style. Failing your final exam can actually be an amusing experience, depending on what you make of it. Here are some suggestions...
1. Bring a pillow. Fall asleep (or pretend to) until the last 15 minutes. Wake up, say "oh geez, better get cracking" and do some gibberish work. Turn it in a few minutes early.
2. Get a copy of the exam, run out screaming "Andre, Andre, I've got the secret documents!!"
3. if it is a math/science exam, answer in essay form. If it is long answer/essay form, answer with numbers and symbols. Be creative. Use the integral symbol.
4. Talk the entire way through the exam. Read questions aloud, debate your answers with yourself out loud. If asked to stop, yell out, "I'm SOOO sure you can hear me thinking." Then start talking about what a jerk the instructor is.
5. Bring cheerleaders.
6. Walk in, get the exam, sit down. About five minutes into it, loudly say to the instructor, "I don't understand ANY of this. I've been to every lecture all semester long! What's the deal?! And who the hell are you? Where's the regular guy?"
7. On the answer sheet (book, whatever) find a new, interesting way to refuse to answer every question. For example: I refuse to answer this question on the grounds that it conflicts with my religious beliefs. Be creative.
8. Run into the exam room looking about frantically. Breathe a sigh of relief. Go to the instructor, say "They've found me, I have to leave the country" and run off.
9. Fifteen minutes into the exam, stand up, rip up all the papers into very small pieces, throw them into the air and yell out "Merry Christmas." If you're really daring, ask for another copy of the exam. Say you lost the first one. Repeat this process every fifteen minutes.
10. Do the entire exam in another language. If you don't know one, make one up! For math/science exams, try using Roman numerals.
11. As soon as the instructor hands you the exam, eat it.
12. Every five minutes, stand up, collect all your things, move to another seat, continue with the exam.
13. Bring a black marker. Return the exam with all questions and answers completely blacked out. OR bring white out. White out all questions leaving only your responses.
14. Every now and then, clap twice rapidly. If the instructor asks why, tell him/her in a very derogatory tone, "the light bulb that goes on above my head when I get an idea is hooked up to a clapper."
15. Go to an exam for a class you have no clue about, where you know the class is very small, and the instructor would recognize you if you belonged. Claim that you have been to every lecture. Fight for your right to take the exam.
16. From the moment the exam begins, hum the theme to Jeopardy. Ignore the instructor's requests for you to stop. When they finally get you to leave one way or another, begin whistling the theme to the Bridge on the River Kwai.
17. Start a brawl in the middle of the exam.
18. If the exam is math/science related, make up the longest proofs you could possibly think of. Get pi and imaginary numbers into most equations.
19. Come in wearing a full knight's outfit, complete with sword and shield.
20. Bring cheat sheets FROM ANOTHER CLASS (make sure this is obvious...like history notes for a calculus exam...otherwise you're not just failing, you're getting kicked out, too) and staple them to the exam with comment "Please use the attached notes for references as you see fit."
21. After you get the exam, call the instructor over, point to any question, ask for the answer. Try to work it out of him/her.
22. One word: Wrestlemania.
23. Try to get people in the room to do the wave.
24. Play Frisbee with a friend at the other side of the room.
25. Bring some large, cumbersome, ugly idol. Put it right next to you. Pray to it often. Consider a small sacrifice.
26. Get deliveries of candy, flowers, balloons, telegrams, etc...sent to you every few minutes throughout the exam.
27. During the exam, take apart everything around you. Desks, chairs, anything you can reach.
28. Complete the exam with everything you write being backwards at a 90 degree angle.
29. Bring a musical instrument with you, play various tunes. If you are asked to stop, say "it helps me think." Bring a copy of the Student Handbook with you, challenging the instructor to find the section on musical instruments during finals. Don't forget to use the phrase "Told you so."