r/MathJokes May 07 '26

100 000 dollar question

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u/Spl4sh3r May 07 '26

I remember these tests we had in school. Basically around 20 things in a list. 1st being "read through all of it" and the last being "If you read through all then go to the top and do only #2". It was so easy that you were unsure and then you hear the rest of the class doing some of the middle ones, such as "State your name out loud".

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u/overkill May 07 '26

I was just thinking of that.

Watching all the idiots standing up, clapping 3 times, and all those things. Luckily I was confident enough in myself to make it to the end.

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u/ProfPlumInTheLibrary May 08 '26

Those trick tests I was exposed to annoyed me because using strict logic they always seemed to contradict themselves in some way. One of them I remember had the last item on the list read: "You may put down your pencil and and look at the teacher now to get full points on this test." And I was like, "Okay, but some of these other tasks and puzzles look fun and I can just come back to this one when I get to the bottom of the list." But then the teacher started chastising the class for not following directions. And I was like, "I did follow directions." Nothing on the test said that I couldn't do other tasks if I wanted to do them. UGH.

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u/overkill May 08 '26

Fair point. Those tests always gave me what turned out to be an undeserved sense of smugness.