Try Not to Laugh Out Loud at These Hysterical Exam Answers

They say that “kids say the darndest things,” and if anyone can tell you how true that statement is, it’s teachers! Children particularly like to show off this skill when taking exams, writing answers that they know aren’t quite right. Here are 30 times children answered exam questions in wrong — but kind of right — ways, much to the dismay of their teachers!

An important part of science classes is learning how to use tools - like beakers, test tubes, and microscopes. This kid was taking an exam about these tools and misunderstood a question about microscope slides.

Many students doodle on the sides of their notebooks. Doodling has actually been shown to be a stress reliever and help improve memory, so it's not all bad. But what about doodling on an exam?

Most people appreciate good wordplay. Wordplay is defined as "the witty exploitation of the meanings and ambiguities of words," and if anyone knows how to exploit a word, it's a student answering an exam question to which they don't actually know the answer.

It's very common for student workbooks to include a box with the needed vocabulary when doing fill-in-the-blank exercises. This student's math exam about quadrilaterals did, but they either didn't see it or chose to ignore it.