23 responses to “Genius fails exam.”

  1. Kathryn Evans

    Love it!

  2. Claire Hennessy

    Hee. :)

  3. Jane

    I’m not sure whether showing that to my GCSE-bound daughter is a good idea or not!

    The child who did that bear will go far.

  4. sharon creech

    Me too, me too, love this child more than words can say.

  5. Maria

    I feel like I should use this if I get stuck on my A-Level exams this week.

    1. Meg

      Maria, I want to say, YES! DO! But that would be wrong.

  6. Julie Wilkie

    Brilliant. This is on a parr with the 7 year old girl I saw at sports day today who stopped running in order to retrieve her pretty headband……she’ll go far, I thought to myself.

  7. Liz

    This is epically funny. And brilliant. And creative. Made my week.

  8. Mieke Z. Mackay

    This made my day. Plus, it reminds me of something my son would do. Can’t wait to receive that phone call from school.

  9. Caroline

    Great! says a soon-to-be ex-teacher. That’s the spirit.
    By the way: “How I Live Now” was the highlight of this year’s class reading list (German pupils, 15-16 yrs. old, learning English). We all enjoyed it so much. Thank you for writing it.

    1. Meg

      Thank you, Caroline. Really nice to hear…. xxx

  10. andrea seigel

    i hope i would have this kind of kid.

    1. Meg

      you would.

  11. jackie

    My daughter is in the middle of her last two years at school. She hardly goes in now as her history teacher, rs and art teacher ‘have nothing to teach her’ at the moment. They have just done exams and are waiting to learn the next ‘module’ before continuing.
    Her English teacher still calls them in to school. She is teaching ‘around’ the set texts to give them a wider understanding.
    Sadly too much ‘jumping through the exam hoops goes on in school and I fear that this child may find that there is a whole herd , farm, jungle, wildwood of ‘boars’ in the way of its education. Only luck of good teachers and an enquiring mind will get children through these days.

  12. jackie

    oops. Bear, not boar. Ah well…. that’s me talking nonsense for the day.

  13. Amanda

    …pesky bears! I wonder if it’s so big because it just ate some bureaucrat?…

  14. Jess

    I’m not sure this will help in my English exam on Friday (Lord of The Flies vs Signed Meg Rosoff book… head vs heart indeed.) but I will certainly try this in my Chemistry exam. It will definitely help, I can just FEEL the A*.

    1. Meg

      So can I, Jess. So can I.

  15. Lydia

    Absolutely creative!

  16. Sarah

    Love it! I wish I had exams like this to mark. Instead I’ve got (mostly) sensible answers on Poetry and Romeo and Juliet. Although I did love the student who wrote “I give this poem two thumbs up!” as their response.

  17. Emma Beasley

    WOW! I wish I could of thought in my science exam yesterday!!
    (obiously not in my english ones because I would like to write books when I’m older!) :)

  18. Shannon

    I hope that our students don’t add a response like this when they complete their text response exam to “How I live now” at the end of the school year! :) )

    1. Meg

      Oh, you’d have to at least give them a few bonus points…..!

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