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Think your exams are getting hard?
« on: October 07, 2010, 07:23:42 pm »
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Thread in general discussion reminded me of this exam paper:

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Instructions
Read each of the following fifteen questions carefully. Answer all the questions.
Time limit: 4 hours. Begin immediately.

1. HISTORY
Describe the history of the papacy from its origin to the present day, concentrating especially, but not exclusively, on it social, political, economic, religious, and philosophical impact on Europe, Asia, America and Africa.
Be brief, concise and specific.

2. MEDICINE
You have been provided with a razor blade, a piece of gauze, and a bottle of Scotch. Remove your appendix.
Do not suture until your work has been inspected. You have 15 minutes.

3. PUBLIC SPEAKING
2500 riot-crazed aborigines are storming the classroom. Calm them. You may use any ancient language except Latin or Greek.

4. BIOLOGY
Create life. Estimate the differences in subsequent human culture if this form of life had developed 50 million years earlier, with special attention to its probable effect on the English parliamentary system. Prove your thesis.

5. MUSIC
Write a piano concerto. Orchestrate it and perform it with flute and drum. You will find a piano under your desk.

6. PSYCHOLOGY
Based on your knowledge of their works, evaluate the emotional stability, degree of adjustment, and repressed frustrations of each of the following: Alexander of Aphrodites, Ramses II, Gregory of Nicea, and Hammurabi.
Support your evaluation with quotations from each man's work, making appropriate references. It is not necessary to translate.

7. SOCIOLOGY
Estimate the sociological problems which might accompany the end of the world. Construct and experiment to test your theory.

8. ENGINEERING
The disassembled parts of a high-powered rifle have been placed on your desk. You will also find and instruction manual, printed in Swahili. In ten minutes a hungry Bengal tiger will be admitted to the room. Take whatever action you feel appropriate. Be prepared to justify your decision.

9. ECONOMICS
Develop a realistic plan for refinancing the national debt. Trace the possible effects of your plan in the following areas: Cubism, the Donatist controversy, and the wave theory of light. Outline a method for preventing these effects. Criticize this method from all possible points of view. Point out the deficiencies in your point of view, as demonstrated in your answer to the last question.

10. POLITICAL SCIENCE
There is a red telephone on the desk beside you. Start World War III. Report at length on its social-political effects, if any.

11. EPISTEMOLOGY
Take a position for or against truth. Prove the validity of your position.

12. PHYSICS
Create a small rapidly rotating black hole. Investigate and report on its effects on the optoelectric properties of Seaborgium (element #106). Clean up your experiment after you've finished.

13. PHILOSOPHY
Sketch the development of human thought and estimate its significance. Compare with the development of any other kind of thought.

14. ASTRONOMY
Define the universe. Give three examples.

15. GENERAL KNOWLEDGE
Describe in detail. Be objective and specific.


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Re: Think your exams are getting hard?
« Reply #1 on: October 07, 2010, 07:33:44 pm »
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LOL i would love to have an exam like that!
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Re: Think your exams are getting hard?
« Reply #2 on: October 07, 2010, 07:34:29 pm »
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Ok Ty I won't worry about my exam now.

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Re: Think your exams are getting hard?
« Reply #3 on: October 07, 2010, 07:36:33 pm »
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#3, #5 and #11 are the best.  :p
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Re: Think your exams are getting hard?
« Reply #4 on: October 07, 2010, 07:46:55 pm »
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love #12

"clean up your experiment after you've finished" haha

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Re: Think your exams are getting hard?
« Reply #5 on: October 07, 2010, 08:30:38 pm »
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i still think i would do better on this exam than on the english exam...

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Re: Think your exams are getting hard?
« Reply #6 on: October 07, 2010, 08:36:33 pm »
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ROFL AT #9.
#3 is also hilarious.

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Re: Think your exams are getting hard?
« Reply #7 on: October 07, 2010, 09:20:08 pm »
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theres a few more like religion: 'perform a miracle. will be judged on creativity.'

also i think theres a bonus mark question something like 'define the universe. provide 3 examples' or something ridiculous.


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Re: Think your exams are getting hard?
« Reply #8 on: October 07, 2010, 09:37:49 pm »
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Haha! Funniest thing i've read in a long time.
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Re: Think your exams are getting hard?
« Reply #9 on: October 07, 2010, 09:52:24 pm »
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theres a few more like religion: 'perform a miracle. will be judged on creativity.'

also i think theres a bonus mark question something like 'define the universe. provide 3 examples' or something ridiculous.




14. ASTRONOMY
Define the universe. Give three examples.




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Re: Think your exams are getting hard?
« Reply #10 on: October 07, 2010, 10:44:58 pm »
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bahaha #15 is really funny too.. you could be there all day!!
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Re: Think your exams are getting hard?
« Reply #11 on: October 07, 2010, 10:45:19 pm »
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Hahaha I love this!
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Re: Think your exams are getting hard?
« Reply #12 on: October 08, 2010, 08:47:21 pm »
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I am a little disappointed tbh, because they didn't think of this:

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« Reply #13 on: October 08, 2010, 08:51:23 pm »
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LOL
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Re: Think your exams are getting hard?
« Reply #14 on: October 08, 2010, 08:52:38 pm »
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the hardest one

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