Test answers that are right, but wrong

I got multiple chuckles out of this collection of kids' incorrect - but plausible - test answers.
 
http://distractify.com/fun/fails/test-answers-that-are-totally-wrong-but-still-genius/
 
Example:
A coin is flipped and then a die is rolled. What is the probability of rolling an odd and then flipping a tail?
A: 0%, because you flipped the coin first.

Some of those answers are brilliant.  

Hi,
 
I had to take the SAT when I did not know English, and had been in the country only 2 years, and my speaking ability and school work was a joke and very difficult. Only had 2 A's ... in French, because in Brazil I had already taken it for 2 years, and in Geometry/Algebra, where I could deal with numbers and not have to deal with language!
 
The rest was tough!
 I was not able to get into the University because of it. So I finally made it to UCSB in the fall of 1978, and it took me 8 years to be able to improve my English and grades in school because of it. Any course that was writing oriented was a problem. Not to mention the terminology, as things like Physics, Chemistry and Biology were completely out of scope for me!

Absolutely hilarrious!!!!

Several years ago I was teaching freshman general chemistry at a state university along with a group of faculty and graduate students.  There were roughly 800 students in the class so we divided the work ... lecture, recitation, grading, etc.
 
We administered an extra credit quiz during class where the students had to draw a Lewis dot structure.  The quizzes were collected and graded by the graduate students.
 
Up until leaving that position a couple of years ago I had one of the quizzes covertly pinned to a bulletin board my shared office.  The student had drawn a penis.  The students were all in that "18 year old" age bracket so ... it's kinda' like the coffee house ... that kind of childish humor is expected.
 
I saved it NOT because it was a drawing of a penis but, because the graduate student graded it ... and seriously gave the freshman student partial credit.

The graduate student did not identify the drawing for what it was (it was pretty obvious) ... and identified the testicles as a lone pair of electrons.

My fav:
 
Take out centi.

X always marks the spot. Roit?

I remember seeing a film with a kid being asked what is wrong with the picture (supposed to point out the anachronism)
 
The picture was a cowboy chasing a native American with a gun,  and overhead there was a jet plane flying.
 
The kid said " the men on the horses are fighting, they should stop fighting." or something to that effect.  He was wrong on the test, but oh so right.
 
That has stuck with me for a long time.
 
JR

Without dragging this into what is really a separate topic, I've always had a beef with how things are taught.  These tests and the so-called "wrong" (but could be right) answers really highlights the problem.  Students tend to be taught that there is usually a "right" answer and, often, it is presented among a small number of alternative choices which leads them to believe that most things only have a few choices to consider and that one of them is "right."
 
My favorite example is "What is the square root of 4?"  The most common reply is 2.  However, that is not completely accurate!  2 or -2 is a far better choice but there are even some really creative alternatives as well (imaging the number 4 made out of 4x4 lumber, now pick it up and look at the very bottom and you should be able to see the square root of 4).
 
The point being, in "real" life (whatever the hell that is!), there can be many possible solutions to the same problem so I feel that creativity shouldn't be punished (and therefore subdued into non-use).  Students should learn how to learn, be taught how to come up with possible answers and shown where to look for answers.  I think this should take a far higher priority than simply using rote memorization of answers to example questions.

Moshkiae
Hi,
 
I had to take the SAT when I did not know English, and had been in the country only 2 years, and my speaking ability and school work was a joke and very difficult. Only had 2 A's ... in French, because in Brazil I had already taken it for 2 years, and in Geometry/Algebra, where I could deal with numbers and not have to deal with language!
 
The rest was tough!
 I was not able to get into the University because of it. So I finally made it to UCSB in the fall of 1978, and it took me 8 years to be able to improve my English and grades in school because of it. Any course that was writing oriented was a problem. Not to mention the terminology, as things like Physics, Chemistry and Biology were completely out of scope for me!

You've come a long way, Moshkiae. Now you can confidently spout CH nonsense with the best of the native English-speakers. Good that all that education hasn't gone to waste!
 
When I was still in my teens my folks took in an exchange student from Brazil. He ended up staying here, graduating from the UW, marrying a local girl and going to work for Boeing.
 
He learned English by watching television, especially Westerns, and thus developed a vocabulary that couldn't have been learned from textbooks.
 
Today, more than 4 decades later, he's a thoroughly-American grandpa and a naturalized U.S. citizen. His English still sucks but his John Wayne imitation is the hit of the party.

Starise
Reminds me of one of my wife's 1st graders who was supposed to write, "The pen is on the desk". He kinda combined pen and is into one word.

Yeah ... that "pen is" joke has been around forever in various forms.
 
I, like probably many of us on this forum, have books of half-finished songs.  One of them which I will get around to finishing before I die is a tune's whose working title is ...
 
"The Pen Is in Her Hand"
 
and the chorus lyric is something like:
 
the pen is in her hand
and she's writing - your biography
you know I would not want
to be you now - words will set her free

bitflipper
I got multiple chuckles out of this collection of kids' incorrect - but plausible - test answers.
 
http://distractify.com/fun/fails/test-answers-that-are-totally-wrong-but-still-genius/
 
Example:
A coin is flipped and then a die is rolled. What is the probability of rolling an odd and then flipping a tail?
A: 0%, because you flipped the coin first.

Thanks we got some belly laughs out of that... and needed them!
 
J