Holy crap, I just remembered this... I haven't thought of it in years, but when I saw people talking about using a particular word in their GAT it reminded me of the Great Pen Drop of 2012.
Basically, my school had quite a moderately large cohort taking the GAT so we sat it in the school gym. The night before, I was on ATAR Notes talking shit, y'know, as you do (what's changed 5 years later?), and I think someone either suggested the idea of a pen drop, or it popped into my head. So I frantically start messaging everyone I have on Facebook "Hey help me organise a pen drop" basically, to mixed reactions. Some "what the fuck, Brenden", some "haha okayyyyy don't hurt me tho". Anyway, hard to generate a sizeable coalition on Facebook. So the next morning, before the gym opens up and the teachers usher us in, virtually everyone sitting the GAT that day is just milling about outside.
So I'm running up to random strangers and really emphatically saying "Hi, there is a pen drop today. At 12pm ON THE DOT, drop your pen off the side of the desk. And tell your friends. SERIOUSLY. WATCH THE CLOCK. When you see it's 11.50am, keep it in mind. MAKE SURE YOU DROP YOUR PEN".
I think people thought I was pretty weird, but I told them with such conviction they just assumed that it was a guaranteed, locked in thing, but realistically, it was 4 minutes of frenzied organisation.
Sure enough, at 12pm on the dot, this one "gangster" kid who didn't really study that much but who was good for a laugh, literally turns in his seat, looks at me, turns back to his desk, picks up like 3 pens and fucking throws them at the ground. I shit you not. His pens made a completely isolated sound and then BANG, in unison, a good 50% of the room just swept their pens off the right hand side of their desk.
It sounded like a goddamn Officeworks truck falling over, and that moment of glory felt like an infinity. The look on the face of the poor old invigilators.
If only I had a photo.