F for Effort: More of the Very Best Totally Wrong Test Answers

By Richard Benson

From the author of the national bestseller F in Exams comes a new compendium of hilarious and inventive wrong test answers and homework hiccups.

F for Effort features hilarious gems from elementary school (“two halves make a whale”), middle school (Q: What does “germinate” mean? A: To become a German citizen), and high school (Q: Fossil fuels are usually associated with which major type of rock? A: Classic rock). These 250 examples of creative invention are sure to charm anyone who has had to bluff or blunder their way through a test. Plus, this is a fixed-format version of the book, which looks nearly identical to the print version.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Open Road Integrated Media
• Release date: Jun 29, 2012
• ISBN: 9781452119267

Richard Benson

Richard Benson is the author of the F in Exams series and several other humor books. He lives in London.

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F for Effort

More of the Very Best

Totally Wrong Test Answers

Richard Benson

Chronicle Books

Contents

Introduction

Elementary Grades

High School

Biology

Chemistry

English

History and Geography

Math

Physics

Extra Credit

About the Author

Copyright

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Introduction

There are different flavors of failure.

For the real test and homework responses collected here from the elementary school set, the failure is a lack of understanding why what they wrote is funny, as in the difference between gravity and gravy. And in fact some of the mistakes yield deeper truths, such as the case of a student claiming J. K. Rowling is her heroin.

The failures of the older students are merely that they have not successfully provided the correct answers to the questions they’ve been asked. Whatever. Instead, knowing as everyone does at —some point that they just don’t know the answer, they accomplish something perhaps more difficult,