Today, disappointed with my results on a mathematics test, I went over it and realized my teacher had added up the marks incorrectly, leaving me with 17% less than I earned. The person who's supposed to be teaching me math can't even perform basic arithmetic. FML
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A failed costume, stolen candy and a very real scare: Halloween, the one night when fear is allowed.
Today, I got back my math test. Instead of taking the time to mark the mistakes, my professor just circled the bottom half of the page and wrote "OMG." FML
Today, I got a big math test back. Good news: I can connect abstract ideas beyond what was taught. Bad news: I can’t do simple math, such as 30/-5. I failed. FML
Today, I got my precalculus final back from my teacher. I got a 17%. I told her that there had to be some mistake, because my classmate had the same answers as me and she got 100%. Not only did I accidentally admit to cheating, but our test papers had different questions. FML
Today, I got my first university math midterm back. I did so bad that my teacher put a sadface on the first page. FML
Today, my math teacher brought his laptop to tally up all our scores for our report card. He then displayed the results on a big screen in front of the whole class. The ones who failed were marked yellow. I was the only one marked yellow. FML
Today, I got my multivariable calc final back, only to realize that the ten points I got off was for putting 10 + 15 = 35 on a problem. My teacher wrote ten question marks and “No???? 25???? :(“ next to it. FML
Today, I learned, 90 horrifying minutes into a college exam, that my 85-year-old calculus teacher had spent the last three weeks teaching us the wrong chapter. FML
Today, while I was taking a test in class, there was a question that had everyone stumped. After what seemed like forever, the teacher finally noticed and said he'd typed the question wrong. I spent more than half the time I had to complete the test on a question that wasn't even written correctly. Yes, I failed. FML
Today, as I went into my calculus class, the teacher announced that someone had received a negative grade on the test we were getting back. I laughed and said, "Which f*cker managed to get a negative?" Turns out I'm the dumbass. FML
Today, I finished an exam in physics class. It counts for 40% of our grade. As I handed my paper in to my teacher, she said to the whole class while talking about me, "You did this wrong; this isn't how you do it." FML
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Top comments
XTheDesertSongX 17
Did you talk with your teacher and get everything sorted out?
J215B 33
What do you think the probability of that was?
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Comments (75)
tealrobot 15
awe, people make mistakes! :)
Serquet70 3
Same thing happened to me, but teacher wouldn't change it when I confronted him about it, because then it would appear as though he made a mistake. Get it sorted out if you can.
monkeyy100 15
thats ironic LOL but at least you didnt get a bad grade
oooohmygosh 8
Just talk to him/her even math teachers are human!
ohishkabibble 21
You act like teachers aren't also humans who make mistakes. When I took college algebra, my professor accidently made a test have a total of 90 pts. instead of 100 because she made a simple addition error. Professors make errors, and that's normal. It's also good because it gives students a chance to notice the error, which is helpful to learning how to spot mistakes in your own arithmetic. So just politely tell your teacher you found an error, and they'll probably praise you for catching the error and fix your grade.
foxwasalamb 24
be careful how you go about it tho op. dont want to offend
blahblah5743794 19
I completely understand. It starts to make you wonder what else they've ****** up in the process
worldclassrager 41
Good thing you went over it that's an easy correction
Fr0gs 15
I got a 19% on a math test last yr and my teacher marked it 91% :x
guineagirl96 38
That's when you don't say anything
aecribb 14
Actually, and maybe I'm just lucky, I've found that most teachers I've had will let the mistake stand if it benefits the student. Of course that large of a mistake may be different.
Jakob2255 12
wow this guy must be stupid to get a 19% oh god is this our future lol
Hiimhaileypotter 53
#33, I don't know, maybe it's just me, but I'd feel too guilty to not say anything. If you don't earn the grade you probably shouldn't keep it... Maybe I'm just a fun sucker, I don't know. :P
TcheQ 12
Giving you a grand total of 17%. Nice strawman you're building there.