The Test
Situation puzzles (sometimes called lateral thinking puzzles) are ones where you need to ask lots of yes or no questions to figure out what happened in the situation. These are good puzzles for groups where one person knows the puzzle and answers the questions.
The teacher gave Ben and Jerry a written test. Ben read the test, then folded his arms and answered none of the questions. Jerry carefully wrote out good answers to the questions. When the time was up, Ben handed in a blank sheet of paper while Jerry handed in his work. The teacher gave Ben an A and Jerry an F. Why?
Answer
In the directions, the teacher told them to do absolutely nothing, to see if they read the directions to the end.
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AhSeng   
Jan 13, 2004
| I thought you say Jerry wrote out good answer which i assume answer that is appropriate to the question. |
moondancer
Jul 20, 2004
| i got this one right!  |
Atropus  
Feb 17, 2005
| This test actually exists.. My mother used it teaching a highschool english class. |
rose_rox
Feb 21, 2005
| My teachers used that on us  |
Ill-Logic-Al
Mar 24, 2005
| I would hate to have that teacher.  |
pennylane
Apr 11, 2005
| something like that has actually happened in my class.  |
hyperkitt1109
Jul 24, 2005
| i new that answer!! i've seen it in tv before!  |
nkatha23
Nov 09, 2005
| Likewise, our class was tricked the same way. Nice |
metallicman 
Nov 14, 2005
| I've seen a version of this test, but mine said to read all the questions before answering, and the last question said don't do any of the questions, so if it said in the directions not to do it, I would have liked it better. |
TehIgnored
Mar 10, 2006
| I had a teacher give me that test too....thank god I'm a speed reader and read the whole test |
calmsavior
May 03, 2006
| yeah i saw that test on this one site
i did nothing but read the directions. DID YOU? |
smiley_lover
May 23, 2006
| my teacher gave me one of these in fifth grade and i was fooled. then in sixth grade another teacher gave me the same thing so i knew what to do  |
tonjawithaj
Jun 12, 2006
| Good one! |
Battery
Sep 01, 2006
| our class had to do it. It was really funny everytime someone shouted something out |
rrn0rrnrrnY
Sep 09, 2006
| good one |
keveffect1
Oct 14, 2006
| good one, but cliche |
2rubystar2
Oct 25, 2006
| Oh yeah my teacher gave my class that test. I was the only one who got it. Yay me. |
natureluver
Nov 20, 2006
| i always read everything first anyway |
elu93
Dec 02, 2006
| lol, my teacher gave us that test, but luckily didn't give us a REAL grade. |
Quickq
Dec 26, 2006
| I thought that the teacher had accidently given them each others sheet.
Not very likely their names would already be written on them but...  |
sftball_rocks13
Feb 13, 2007
| Yeah my PE teachers made this "exam" where you had to do a ton of pushups and running like the whole class, but it said not to do any of them near the end of the directions.
I've actually heard of a college/high school test or something like this, so thats how I figured it out. Good teaser!  |
animaru2413
May 09, 2007
| My fifth grade teacher gave us this one coloring one, but it wasn't really graded. |
4demo
Jun 05, 2007
| I've seen one of those. The first direction is to not do anything until you read all the directions...the last direction is to not answer anything. Great teaser! |
dudebomb93
Jul 26, 2007
| boring!!!  i h8 school but it was hard,i give u credit for that(if u want to count that as credit) LOL |
beyonce123
Jun 02, 2010
| Now I want ice cream!!!! |
Joose
Nov 04, 2012
| I had a teacher who did a version of this test which involved doing absurd things like hopping up and down and doing push-ups. That way those of us who read the directions just got to sit there and watch all the other idiots. =D |
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