Is this a trick? You never asked a question o.O
Setting: You are a senior in your expensive and highly regarded high school, and today is the final exam and the LAST DAY OF SCHOOL. You are given a sheet of paper that says...
Instructions: Read each question carefully. Answer all questions. Note your completion of your grade and college accreditation depends on this final exam. If you come to fail the exam, you will be remediated to take the final exam until your pass.
Time limit: 4 hours. Begin immediately.
Art: Given one eight-count box of crayons and three sheets of notebook paper, recreate the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. Skin tones should be true to life.
Biology: Create life. Estimate the differences in subsequent human culture if this form of life had developed 500 million years earlier, with special attention to its probable effect on the English Parliamentary System circa 1750. Prove your thesis.
Chemistry: You must identify a poison sample which you will find at your lab table. All necessary equipment has been provided. There are two beakers at your desk, one of which holds the antidote. If the wrong substance is used, it causes instant death. You may begin as soon as the professor injects you with a sample of the poison. (We feel this will give you an incentive to find the correct answer.)
Civil Engineering: This is a practical test of your design and building skills. With the boxes of toothpicks and glue present, build a platform that will support your weight when you and your platform are suspended over a vat of nitric acid.
Computer Science: Write a fifth-generation computer language. Using this language, write a computer program to finish the rest of this exam for you.
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.
Electrical Engineering: You will be placed in a nuclear reactor and given a partial copy of the electrical layout. The electrical system has been tampered with. You have seventeen minutes to find the problem and correct it before the reactor melts down.
Engineering: The disassembled parts of a high-powered rifle have been placed on your desk. You will also find an instruction manual, printed in Swahili. In 10 minutes, a hungry Bengal tiger will be admitted to the room. Take whatever action you feel necessary. Be prepared to justify your decision.
Epistemology: Take a position for or against truth. Prove the validity of your stand.
General Knowledge: Describe in detail. Be objective and specific.
History: Describe the history of the Papacy from its origins to the present day, concentrating especially, but not exclusively, on its Europe, Asia, America and Africa. Be brief, concise and specific.
Mathematics: Derive the Euler-Cauchy equations using only a straightedge and compass. Discuss in detail the role these equations had on mathematical analysis in Europe during the 1800s.
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 you work has been inspected. You have fifteen minutes.
Metaphysics: Describe in detail the probably nature of life after death. Test your hypothesis.
Music: Write a piano concerto. Orchestrate and perform it with flute and drum. You will find a piano under your seat.
Philosophy: Sketch the development of human thought. Estimate its significance. Compare with the development of any other kind of thought.
Physchology: Based on your knowledge of their works, evaluate the emotional stability, degree of adjustment, and repressed frustrations of each of the following: Alexander of Aphrodisis, Rameses II, Hammuarabi. Support your evaluation with quotations from each man's work, making appropriate references. It is not necessary to translate.
Physics: Explain the nature of matter. Include in your answer an evaluation of the impact of the development of mathematics on science.
Political Science: There is a red telephone on the desk beside you. Start World War III. Report at length on its socio-political effects if any.
Public Speaking: 2500 riot-crazed aborigines are storming the classroom. Calm them. You may use any ancient language except Latin or Greek.
Religion: Perform a miracle. Creativity will be judged.
Sociology: Estimate the sociological problems which might accompany the end of the world. Construct an experiment to test your theory.
Extra Credit: Define the universe, and give three examples.
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I started failing right here.
oh wait.
42.
I actually had a test that was kinda like this once (super difficult problems that no one could figure out). The catch though, was in the instructions.
All it said to do was to write your name on the paper and turn it in xD
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we've had things like that before. except they were more mundane problems that you turn your brain off for. I.E. folding parts of the paper or shading regions.
It's a lousy coincidence that I found this thread, STRAIGHT after my General Maths Advance exam. =.=
I feel so awful. I know it was meant to be a joke, but.... yeah.....
*sobs in corner*
Not too hard. Depends on how much detail you want on the nature of matter, though, lol. The poison... Depends on how fast it acts. Given a mass spectrometer and an infrared spectrometer, and assuming the compound has been documented somewhere (as most good poisons have)... I could have an answer to what it is in 15 to 20 minutes. However... most good poisons have no antidote. :p
Would be easy if I knew Aborigine, which is, in fact, an ancient language. Lawl.Public Speaking: 2500 riot-crazed aborigines are storming the classroom. Calm them. You may use any ancient language except Latin or Greek.
See, if I got there, there would be no socio-political effects. Just biological ones. Because we would all be dead. Hey, at least I wouldn't have to find out that I failed!Political Science: There is a red telephone on the desk beside you. Start World War III. Report at length on its socio-political effects if any.
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Hmmmm...
The only way I'd pass this was if you get credit for sarcastic answers. :D
Who would seriously take more than like 20 classes? I mean I know people who take like 8 to 10 classes per day and that is just kinda sad. Consider your social life down the drain? lol
Maybe put C for all the answers from the old saying, when in doubt put C
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