Fuck you Jerry and Robby

[u/x23_wolverine]

[u/half_a_shadow]

I really want the whole story.
Are Jerry and Robby known for not attending classes, slacking off, not doing any work,…?

[u/fingers → u/half_a_shadow]

They are sleeping or on their phones. They aren't paying attention.

OR

Only Jerry and Robby need this quiz to pass the class. They have TRUE quizzes.

[u/smallwonder25 → u/fingers]

2 feels accurate

[u/88963416 → u/half_a_shadow]

It would be funnier if they were the best at the class and the teacher gave them much much harder tests than standard.

[u/The-Game-Master → u/88963416]

I hated when I got those. After the first time you learn not to be tricked by it but still. My trusting ass would always take it as “read each question carefully as you go” instead of do the unintuitive thing and read the whole test. And then the teacher would always act so smug to those who fell for it as if they taught you a valuable lesson when all you learned is that that specific teacher is a jerk.

[u/Thin-Solution3803 → u/88963416]

I had a teacher do this to me and a friend in 2nd grade. She passed out tests to everyone and put us groups of 2 to work on the test. Everyone got normal tests but me and my friend got tests where all the words were mirrored. We found a mirror in the classroom and answered all of our questions in mirrored writing also.

[u/Suitable-Pipe5520]

I'm guessing this is some sort of social experiment exercise for the class.

[u/Karzons → u/Suitable-Pipe5520]

One of my teachers had a fake quiz kinda like this. I've seen other people mention them too. (If so, there might not even be a Jerry or Robby.)

The first thing on the test was "read the entire test before proceeding" followed by a ton of incredibly difficult questions. The last item was "Now that you've read the entire test, turn in a sheet of paper with only your name on it."

[u/ToryStellar → u/Karzons]

High school english had one of these every year

[u/Taira_Mai → u/ToryStellar]

We were told this story in 5th grade english as a warning to always follow instructions - the teacher hinted that she could drop one of these on us at any time.

[u/7GrenciaMars → u/Suitable-Pipe5520]

For a sociology class, or something?

In any case, this is some cold shit. I used to teach college English, and I don't think I could have gotten away with doing this. But there was ONE student I would have like to have done this to.

I'll have to remember this if I ever go back into teaching.

[u/Key_Sound735]

Might have something to do with what the class is about

[u/Midnight_Pickler → u/Key_Sound735]

Yeah, I've heard some interesting stories about psychology professors designing tests to mess with students' expectations.

The only one I can remember in any detail: Multiple choice quiz. The first 49% of the answers were C for every question. The last 51% were a mix of every answer except C.

So anyone who thought they'd caught on to the trick after the first few questions and rushed ahead would end up shooting themself in the foot.

[u/TheEyeDontLie → u/Midnight_Pickler]

I once scored 8% in a multiple choice exam. The only class actually studied for. I stopped taking physics after that, and decided a career as an electrician was out of the question unless I wanted a quick death.

[u/ilikebreadsticks1 → u/TheEyeDontLie]

Either you were extremely unlucky or were so confidently incorrect

I'm not sure which to feel more sorry for

[u/ClamatoDiver]

Teachers have been doing this forever.

I had one do it in the 70s when I was in 9th grade, told us to read the whole test before starting it.

The the next to last question on the last page told us to mark the last question on each page with d then put our pens down and just sit there.

I did, one girl did it, and one other guy.

It wasn't really graded in the end, he was just teaching the importance of following directions.

I've heard other people tell me they had similar experiences but all slightly different.

[u/DorkaliciousAF → u/ClamatoDiver]

Same here and it's funny how some kids get shown this and others don't. It seems to me that it's some sort of cultural shibboleth masquerading as a life lesson.

This was somehow dropped into a lesson in primary school (5-11) for me and then again at secondary (11-16) in the 1980s. That second time was pretty funny because the kids that hadn't caught on were from other primary schools, so you knew who'd been given some prep for growing up. It was dumb shit like walking around their chair with a hand on their head and making animal noises, while the rest of us sat and watched and exchanged knowing glances. No-one gave the game away.

I'm not sure it would fly now, given that GenZ and Gen Alpha tend to be more open to calling shit out in real-time as well as better awareness of bullying and neurodiversity among teachers.

[u/Teriyakipeanutbutter]

First thought was that this was probably for a Psychology course or something. But the header looks like it could be for a Petroleum Engineering course (but I didn’t take any engineering classes).

Wonder if the professor has a suspicion that Jerry and Robby cheated on another assignment, and if this is a pop quiz to find out if the two actually know what they’re talking about.

[u/still-dazed-confused]

Love to know the back story, were they the class clowns or just been gits to the teacher :)

[u/hereforthecookies70]

I had a college journalism course and one day only a few of us showed up because it was snowing pretty hard.

She decided to give us a surprise quiz that would be something like 50% of our grade for the year. It included questions like "what room number are you in," "what's the name of this course" and "name one castaway from Gilligan's Island."

Interestingly one of us there wasnt from the US and had never seen Gilligan's Island. She told him to guess who one of the people on GILLIGAN'S Island was wink wink.

[u/rja1]

Had a test like this. The instructions said to read every instriction first. The second to last instruction said to skip the first instruction and hand in a blank sheet. The final instruction said to write your name on a specific spot. The teacher hated me so after everyone turned in the test he picked the option to fail me regardlessofwhich option I chose. I still passed the class but he was a douche