So this was on an exam.

I didn’t personally go through this but it was a popular story in my university.

So the course was a Philosophy course, there was quite a bit of memorization required if you want to do well in this course. So when the final exam approached, everyone is memorizing their brain off.

Then the final exam had an essay part, which covers about 60% of the exam. The essay question is

“Why?”

(flip table violently

That will probably be my initial response if I were the person writing the exam. I spent all those all-nighters remembering every single word on the book and what is this shit??

Apparently, half of the class couldn’t figure out what the heck the professor expects from them and failed terribly. But there was this one guy who surprisingly left earlier than anyone did during the exam.

and yep, he got 100% on the essay part.

Guess what he wrote?

“Why not.”

To speak for the other 150+ people on that exam, this might be the dumbest question they’ve had in their lives at that point.

But yes, I think the university would surely re-evaluate the results… :))

Disclaimer: not sure if this story is true or greatly exaggerated, but it does sound like what the professors in my university would do.