This pop quiz is half your grade o-O

[SkullcandyPegasus 603]

After the commute to school, your teacher greets you as such:

 

“Okay, time for a pop quiz that will be half your grade for this class.”

 

... What do you do?

[nolongerabout 403]

Curse an awful education system based solely on exams that doesn't prepare students for real life.

[Shadow Beam 1,179]

Curse an awful education system based solely on exams that doesn't prepare students for real life.

The edginess is strong with this one.

[Ziggy + Angel + Rain 11,302]

I try to do well on the pop quiz? xD

 

I mean: I stand up on my desk all dramatic-like and deliver a thirteen minute long speech about the unjustness of this pop quiz!  Then I go to the principal's office and receive my punishment.  Or fall off of my desk and receive my punishment from gravity.

[nolongerabout 403]

The edginess is strong with this one.

I'm allowed an opinion about the standards of education where I live, aren't I?

 

And as for 'edgy', I take one look at your OC and... Yeah.

I take it as a compliment to be called edgy be one of the masters of edge.

[~SadisticFluttershy~ 779]

I would flip my desk and walk out the door and shout

"I QUIT!"

 

^ Maaaaybe?

 

In all seriousness, I wouldn't even do it.

Edited April 20, 2015 by ~SadisticFluttershy~

[Shadow Beam 1,179]

I'm allowed an opinion about the standards of education where I live, aren't I?

 

And as for 'edgy', I take one look at your OC and... Yeah.

I take it as a compliment to be called edgy be one of the masters of edge.

You got me there. I stand painfully corrected.

 

Takin' canon to its boundaries.

Edited April 20, 2015 by Shadow Beam

[Admiral Regulus 2,769]

Great! So this is all I have to do until the final exam...?

 

Hahaha, suckers. See you at finals!

[Melodic Oak 21]

@Shadow Beam

ForthEorl is probably referring to the provenly bad American, grade-level education system. If so, there is much truth to his statement. Though America is not the only place with a sub-par public educational system.

That being said, America actually has highly sought after universities, that drive people who live thousands of miles away to study abroad. So, whilst our public educational system might be poor, it's not quite the same case with college education.

[Stardust Balance 7,738]

"...Well I suppose the only positive to this is no matter how bad I do; I'll still yield better results than the rest of my class."

[Snow Frostflame 3,568]

Something along these lines

 

 

 

 

 

 

then afterwards I somehow get a decent grade.... that's how most of my highschool year has been

[null123456 759]

Be confused as to why a FUCKING POP QUIZ is half of my grade.

[Princess Periwinkle 3,775]

Well, naturally I'd be ready for it seeing as how it would be in the syllabus. And if it wasn't in the syllabus, I'd talk to my teacher's higher-ups about it, because that wouldn't be allowed.

[CandyStrike 603]

I try my best and die in the process.

[A Black Circle 1,586]

>>Why U.S. public education is the most irritating thing to ever exist

[StoneCold 144]

Probably just B.S. my way through the quiz, and hope for the best.

[nolongerabout 403]

 

 

 

ForthEorl is probably referring to the provenly bad American, grade-level education system. If so, there is much truth to his statement.

I was talking about the British education system, but from what I hear about the American one... Not much better?

[Melodic Oak 21]

I was talking about the British education system, but from what I hear about the American one... Not much better?

 

It's notoriously bad, at least in most parts of the country.

[Wyzecat 350]

PETITION.  PETITION.  PETITION.

[Suukorak 354]

Do the quiz. Wreck the curve.

Then help everyone else convince the teacher it's unfair and should be extra credit.

150% here I come!

[gone~ 614]

It depends on what the subject of the quiz is, but I'd probably just shrug and ace the test. I'm very good at taking tests, and if it's half my grade that means I don't have to work very hard for the rest of the class to pass ^^

[ToastedScone 395]

I'm not even going to TRY to sugarcoat this; I'd probably cry. I can't stand sudden, important things happening that I couldn't plan for

[Pentium100 2,122]

I would just try to answer the test as best as I can. When I was in school, AFAIR, I did not really study that much for tests anyway, since most subjects fell into two categories -

• interesting stuff that I remember from the class or have read anyway and could take a test right now 
• uninteresting stuff that I cannot really remember even if I read it 10 times.

And even if I failed that test, the teacher would most likely allow me to retake it later and I would just explain it to my parents that the test was a surprise. It would help if a lot of other students failed the test as well.

This was better in the University - the rules there said that everyone can have one or two (I do not remember which) re-takes for free, then you had to pay some money (less than 100EUR as I remember) to retake the exam again and if you fail once or twice again, you have to repeat that subject (and pay more money for that), but by that time you have failed the exam at least 3 times.

[Here No Longer 5,276]

Panic internally, then just do it and probably pass it fine.

 

Afterwards, probably think "that is what we call a d*** move."

Edited February 3, 2020 by Angel_Dust

[Splashee 28,563]

Hopefully this teacher likes me, or I probably fail.

 

I would do anything I can to delay the pop quiz (teacher, I must go to the bathroom! Teacher my parents are sick I need to call them now! Teacher, is that the fire alarm I heard?), then try to figure out what it is (ask previous students, break into the teachers break room and go through the notes, anything!), and cheat my way to victory.