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Real GCSE answers
Posted by Brian on May 1, 2022, 20:49:29
These below are supposedly real GSCE exam answers, I don't know if the people who marked them would have been laughing or crying, judge for yourself:
1. Ancient Egypt was inhabited by mummies and they all wrote in hydraulics.They lived in the Sarah Dessert and traveled by Camelot. The climate of the Sarah is such that the inhabitants have to live elsewhere.
2. The Bible is full of interesting caricatures. In the first book of the Bible,Guinessis, Adam and Eve were created from an apple tree. One of their children,Cain, asked, "Am I my brother's son?"
3. Moses led the Hebrew slaves to the Red Sea, where they made unleavened bread which is bread made without any ingredients. Moses went up on Mount Cyanide to get the ten commandments. He died before he ever reached Canada.
4. Solomom had three hundred wives and seven hundred porcupines.
5. The Greeks were a highly sculptured people, and without them we wouldn't have history. The Greeks also had myths. A myth is a female moth.
6. Actually, Homer was not written by Homer but by another man of that name.
7. Socrates was a famous Greek teacher who went around giving people advice. They killed him. Socrates died from an overdose of wedlock. After his death, his career suffered a dramatic decline.
8. In the Olympic games, Greeks ran races, jumped, hurled the biscuits, and threw the java.
9. Eventually, the Romans conquered the Greeks. History calls people Romans because they never stayed in one place for very long.
10. Julius Caesar extinguished himself on the battlefields of Gaul. The Ides of March murdered him because they thought he was going to be made king. Dying, he gasped out: "Tee hee, Brutus."
11. Nero was a cruel tyranny who would torture his subjects by playing the fiddle to them.
12. Joan of Arc was burnt to a steak and was cannonized by Bernard Shaw. Finally Magna Carta provided that no man should be hanged twice for the same offense.
13. In midevil times most people were alliterate. The greatest writer of the futile ages was Chaucer, who wrote many poems and verses and also wrote literature.
14. Another story was William Tell, who shot an arrow through an apple while standing on his son's head.
15. Queen Elizabeth was the "Virgin Queen." As a queen she was a success. When she exposed herself before her troops they all shouted "hurrah."
16. It was an age of great inventions and discoveries. Gutenberg invented removable type and the Bible. Another important invention was the circulation of blood. Sir Walter Raleigh is a historical figure because he invented cigarettes and started smoking. And Sir Francis Drake circumcised the world with a 100 foot clipper.
17. The greatest writer of the Renaissance was William Shakespeare. He was born in the year 1564, supposedly on his birthday. He never made much money and is famous only because of his plays. He wrote tragedies,comedies, and hysterectomies, all in Islamic pentameter. Romeo and Juliet are an example of a heroic couplet. Romeo's last wish was to be laid by Juliet.
18. Writing at the same time as Shakespeare was Miguel Cervantes. He wrote Donkey Hote. The next great author was John Milton. Milton wrote Paradise Lost. Then his wife died and he wrote Paradise Regained.
I have a few more from these studious minds for tomorrow.
Re: Real GCSE answers
Posted by Stan Wears on May 2, 2022, 18:36:05, in reply to "Real GCSE answers"
Brian these are great.I had a few weird experiences with slightly older young people when I worked as a construction manager. The first was I rang the agency to supply a strong youg lad to help the ground workers laying pipes in muddy trenches.they He arrived next day, designer tee shirt, trainers and it left me gobsmacked. The star one was at Frankland max security when I asked for a young lady to assist on computer records but to dress appropriately. She turned up next day, short skirt and low cut top. I explained that I asked for trousers and suitable top only to be told point blank " You have NO right to tell ME what to wear !" I just couldn't get it through she was in a prison.
Before anyone thinks I'm biased, no I'm not,just baffled as to some young folks way of thinking!
Re: Real GCSE answers
Posted by Sheila on May 2, 2022, 19:11:51, in reply to "Real GCSE answers"
Brian, read them and weep. I think me and others were not thought clever enough for the 11 plus. I have to agree my maths was not good but think we might have done ok with English lit or the classics. I think to encourage reading is important..
Re: Real GCSE answers
Posted by AJG on May 2, 2022, 21:40:15, in reply to "Real GCSE answers"
I was a teacher through the 1990s and can attest that every year we would get howlers like these on GCSE papers. Come exam time, we used to have a selection of the best ones photocopied on the staff room notice board!
