62 Fool Proof Ways to Fail A College Exam . . . With Style

Planning on failing? Go out with style!

So I can't take credit for all of these ideas but I have to say that I definitely did contribute more than my fare share. They were just too funny not to add. Can you imagine being the teacher/professor? Or another student in the class? Good stuff! Don't skip any, the really good are mixed in with the good, plus, it took me forever to come up with most of these!!!

1. Bring a pillow. Fall asleep (or pretend to) until the last 15 minutes. Wake up, say “oh geez, better get cracking” and do some gibberish work. Turn it in a few minutes early.
2. Get a copy of the exam, run out screaming “Andre, Andre, I’ve got the secret documents!!”
3. If it is a math/science exam, answer in essay form. If it is long answer/essay form, answer with numbers and symbols. Be creative. Use the integral symbol.
4. Make paper airplanes out of the exam. Aim them at the instructor’s left nostril.
5. Talk the entire way through the exam. Read questions aloud, debate your answers with yourself out loud. If asked to stop, yell out, “I’m SOOO sure you can hear me thinking.” Then start talking about what a jerk the instructor is.
6. Bring cheerleaders.
7. Walk in, get the exam, sit down. About five minutes into it, loudly say to the instructor, “I don’t understand ANY of this. I’ve been to every lecture all semester long! What’s the deal? And who the hell are you? Where’s the regular guy?”
8. Bring a Game Boy. Play with the volume at max level. Get really into it.
9. On the answer sheet (book, whatever) find a new, interesting way to refuse to answer every question. For example: I refuse to answer this question on the grounds that it conflicts with my religious beliefs.
10. Bring pets. (real or stuffed)
11. Run into the exam room looking about frantically. Breathe a sigh of relief. Go to the instructor, say “They’ve found me, I have to leave the country” and run off.
12. Fifteen minutes into the exam, stand up, rip up all the papers into very small pieces, throw them into the air and yell out “Merry Christmas.” Sit back down. 15 minutes later, ask for another copy of the exam. Say you lost the first one. Repeat this process every fifteen minutes with a new holiday (ex: Happy Kwanzaa, Jolly Ede, Happy Hanukkah).
13. Giggle and blush after reading every question like it says something inappropriate.
14. Do the exam with crayons, finger paint, and/or fluorescent markers.
15. Come into the exam wearing a pair of birkenstocks, and nothing else.
16. Come down with a BAD case of Tourette’s Syndrome during the exam. Vulgar language is not necessary, and random words will do, like the answers to the test.
17. Do the entire exam in another language. If you don’t know one, make one up!
18. Bring things to throw at the instructor when s/he’s not looking. Blame it on the person nearest to you.
19. As soon as the instructor hands you the exam, eat it.
20. Walk into the exam with an entourage. Claim you are going to be taping your next video during the exam. Try to get the instructor to let them stay, be persuasive. Tell the instructor to expect a percentage of the profits if they are allowed to stay.
21. Every five minutes, stand up, collect all your things, move to another seat, and continue with the exam.
22. Glare at the professor during the entire exam. If they look up at you, quickly look away and resume glaring once they've stopped looking at you.
23. Turn in the exam approximately 30 minutes into it. As you walk out, start loudly commenting on how easy it was.
24. Do the entire exam as if it was multiple choice and true/false. If it is a multiple choice exam, spell out interesting things (DCCAB, BABE, etc..).
25. Bring a black marker. Return the exam with all questions and answers completely blacked out.
26. Get the exam. Twenty minutes into it, throw your papers down violently, scream out “Screw this!” and walk out triumphantly, humming your own triumphant background music.
27. Arrange a protest before the exam starts (i.e. Threaten the instructor that whether or not everyone’s done, they are all leaving after one hour to go drink).
28. Show up pretending to be completely drunk. (Completely drunk means at some point during the exam, you should start crying for mommy).
29. Every now and then, clap twice rapidly. If the instructor asks why, tell him/her in a very derogatory tone, “the light bulb that goes on above my head when I get an idea is hooked up to a clapper. DUH!”
30. Comment on how sexy the instructor is looking that day, several times.
31. Come to the exam wearing a black cloak. After about 30 minutes, put on a white mask and start yelling “I’m here, the phantom of the opera,” run around, waving your cap at people and singing to them until they drag you away.
32. Go to an exam for a class you have no clue about, where you know the class is very small, and the instructor would recognize you if you belonged. Claim that you have been to every lecture. Fight for your right to take the exam.
33. Upon receiving the exam, look it over, while laughing loudly, say “you don’t really expect me to waste my time on this drivel? Days of our Lives is on!!!”
34. Bring a water pistol with you. Nuff said.
35. Adopt multiple personalities partway through the test and begin to argue loudly with yourself about whether the person next to you is good looking or not.
36. From the moment the exam begins, hum the theme to Jeopardy. Ignore the instructor’s requests for you to stop. When they finally get you to leave one way or another, begin whistling the theme to the Bridge on the River Kwai.
37. Don't write anything on your paper/booklet/ whatever. Start a brawl in the middle of the exam claiming the person three seats down was cheating off your paper.
38. If the exam is math/science related, make up the longest proofs you could possibly think of. Get pi and imaginary numbers into most equations.
39. Come in wearing a full knight’s outfit, complete with sword and shield.
40. Bring a friend to give you a back massage the entire way through the exam. Insist this person is needed, because you have bad circulation.
41. Bring cheat sheets FROM ANOTHER CLASS (make sure this is obvious… like history notes for a calculus exam… otherwise you’re not just failing, you’re getting kicked out, too) and staple them to the exam with the comment “Please use the attached notes for references as you see fit.”
42. When you walk in, complain about the heat. Strip your socks off and drape them over the chairs on either side of you.
43. After you get the exam, call the instructor over, point to any question, ask for the answer. Try to work it out of him/her.
44. One word: Wrestlemania.
45. Bring balloons, blow them up, start throwing them around like they do before concerts start.
46. Try to get people in the room to do the wave.
47. Play frisbee with a friend at the other side of the room. Objects beside an actual frisbee may be used.
48. Bring some large, cumbersome, ugly idol. Put it right next to you. Pray to it often. Consider a small sacrifice, like the pencil of the person next to you, or the actual person.
49. Get deliveries of candy, flowers, balloons, telegrams, etc… sent to you every few minutes throughout the exam.
50. During the exam, take apart everything around you. Desks,chairs, anything you can reach.
51. Complete the exam with everything you write being backwards at a 90 degree angle.
52. Bring a musical instrument with you, play various tunes. If you are asked to stop, say “it helps me think.” Bring a copy of the Student Handbook with you, challenging the instructor to find the section on musical instruments during finals. Don’t forget to use the phrase “Told you so”.
53. Answer the exam with the “Top Ten Reasons Why Professor xxxx Sucks”.
54. Come to the exam wearing a cape. Ten minutes in duck under your desk and role out onto the floor. Proceed to scale the perimeter of the room all the while humming the theme song to Mission Impossible.
55. Faint dramatically every 10 minutes. Be sure to twitch and mumble while laying on the floor, then pop back up and resume testing like nothing happened.
56. Halfway through the exam stand up and begin to dance like you have to go to the bathroom. Continue testing. If the professor asks you if you need to go to the restroom inform him/her that you are perfectly capable of containing yourself. Act offended.
57. At some point, pull a bath towel from your bag, drape it over your shoulders and exclaim to the person nearest you "I am Batman, come, Robin, to the Batcave!!!"
58. See how far you can tip back in your chair without falling over. Commentate on your activity like the announcers at a sporting event.
59. Cry loudly during the entire testing period. Refuse to except any tissues and blow your nose on your exam. Don't forget to turn it in.
60. Once the test has begun, slid down under your desk and crawl around on the floor seeing how many people's shoelaces you can tie together.
61. Attempt to take the test while sitting on the lap of the person next to you.
62. Become enraged at your pencil. Break it in half. Then proceed to hold a funeral for it, asking others to say something nice about it as well.