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Apparently, students taking exams can get bonus marks if they suffer a traumatic experience on the day of an examination. For example, if your cat dies on the morning of the exam, you get 2% for free and a serious car crash gets you 4%.

How would you prove that your cat has died? Would you bring it into school in a black sack or something? And if you have three cats, and they all happened to die on the same morning, would you get 6%? Something tells me there'll be a lot of cat deaths over the next couple of months.

You just finish watching Have I Got News For You?

No, we were discussing it with our Maths teacher today. I can't seem to find any article though - I'd post it otherwise.

Man

Real life experience: On the way to my AP English exam, i got in a car wreck...had to get the car towed, but still took the exam. Wish you could find the article, so i could turn it in and get my 4%...

i had been hoping to get in a knife fight on my way to my history class. i figure i could take an extra couple days to study if i walked in bleeding profusely.

Man

Real life experience: On the way to my AP English exam, i got in a car wreck...had to get the car towed, but still took the exam. Wish you could find the article, so i could turn it in and get my 4%...
Only applies in Britain I think (you are American right?)

Only applies in Britain I think (you are American right?)
Aww... that blows. I'd never be able to take the test if my cat died :(

yeah...

man, that would be the shit if i could actually get somethin like this...

Only applies in Britain I think (you are American right?)

Nope, I'm British. Don't you just wish you were too? :p

my sis was told that it was if any of your pets died, she wants one of the sheep to die

my sis was told that it was if any of your pets died, she wants one of the sheep to die

Know how to use a gun?

Know how to use a gun?
well i do yes, but i couldn't use it on an animal and i don't think my sister could either

well i do yes, but i couldn't use it on an animal and i don't think my sister could either

is it an actual pet? or like a farmed sheep?

is it an actual pet? or like a farmed sheep?
an actual pet

i have a pet ant, does that count

and also on the subject of killing animals, has anyone else used Cillit Bang on ant's nests :D

That is true, I had an aunt die on the day of my final, and my family flew out to the far side of the nation to be in the funeral. I got to take the final a week later, when I got back.

It has its limits though, I've been tossed out of class before because I was late too often...but I was late because I had to drive 150 miles through traffic to get from my mother in the hospital to the school! The prof didn't care, and said to come on time or not at all.

an actual pet

in that case ur sis is pretty cold wanting it to die just so that she can get some extra marks :(

in that case ur sis is pretty cold wanting it to die just so that she can get some extra marks :(
i know, we've only had it a week though and it's not like she's going to become all that emotionally attached to a bunch of sheep but yeah, i agree

The best way to ace exams, IMO, is to just learn your stuff. The time it takes to find a good excuse (or even execute a good excuse, hehe) is way more than it would take to actually learn whatever it is you need to be able to reproduce. That, and it also saves on the "guilt" part. Karma can be a bitch, people!

Don't get me wrong, I won't be going cat-hunting just to pass my exams (to be honest, I don't really need to, but that's another story). IMO it's just a way for people that can't be bothered to learn the stuff to get a few measly marks. I mean, unless you're right on the grade boundary, it's not going to make that much difference anyway.