Once a soldier asked his commanding officer for a day's leave to attend his sister's wedding. The officer asked him to wait outside the door for a few minutes while he considered the request. The
officer then called the soldier back in and said, "You are a liar. I've
just phoned your sister and she told me she's already married." "Well, sir, you're an even bigger liar," the soldier replied, "because I don't even have a sister."
A man selling vacuum cleaners appeared at the door
of an old lady's cottage and, without allowing the woman to speak,
rushed into the living room and threw a large bag of dirt all over her
clean carpet. He said, "If this new magical cleaner doesn't pick up
every bit of dirt, I'll eat it." The woman, who by this time was
losing her patience, said, "Sir, if I had enough money to buy that, I
would have paid my electricity bill before they cut it off. Now, what
would you prefer, a spoon or a knife and fork?"
As a student I ate my meals at a seaside
boarding-house. The landlady was a good cook and, as her husband was a
fisherman, we always ate fish for dinner. Eventually I got tired of it,
and took to slipping it under the sofa, where the family cat would find
and devour it. This worked very successfully until one day the
landlady tiptoed up behind me and said, "Young man it's high time I
told you that our cat was run over by a lorry three weeks ago."
An accountant answered an advertisement for a job
with a large firm. At the end of the interview the chairman said, "One
last question-- what is three times seven?" The accountant thought for
a minute and replied, "Twenty-two". Outside he took his calculator
and realized that he should have said twenty-one. He concluded that he
had lost the job. A fortnight later, however, he was offered the post. After a few weeks, he asked the chairman why he had been when he had given the wrong answer. "You were the closest," the chairman replied.
The old lady walked into a chemist's shop and bought
a packet of mothballs. The next day she returned . and again bought a
packet of mothballs. On the third day she did the same and when she
appeared the fourth day and asked again for a packet of mothballs, the
chemist could not restrain his curiosity. 'You must have a lot of moths, madam?' he queried.
'Yes, I have,' she nodded, 'and I don't know what I'm going to do. I've
been throwing these balls at them for three days now and I haven't hit
one yet!'
There’s
something no student wants to face at the end of each semester. It’s obvious. Almost all schools
assess students by means ofexaminations. Almost everyone
would agree that exams are stressful. Exams cause a great deal offear and many students do
worse in exams than in other
forms of assessment. Of course many
argue that exams are a great
form of training for later life when success depends on dealing with
a variety of stresses. So,
here’s the question. “Are exams necessary?”
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