Editors' rant: Exams and humour. Can the two mix?

Web ed: Sorry... bit slow off the mark today with the web edition. But it's up now!

Hiya all and welcome to Day 4 of VCE SS and another issue of The Zine.

Now everybody tackling VCE has to endure sitting at least one exam. Perhaps this will be the first time you’ve taken an exam or maybe you’ve got a few under your belt already.

Imagine a worst case hypothetical scenario: you’ve just walked in to sit your exam and read through your questions. There does not appear to be a single question you can answer. What do you do? Hold on… that’s not the question we’re here to answer today. We may cover that in a more serious rant one day.

Well there’s no point leaving your paper blank so what else can you do? Turn to humour. 9 times out of 10 this will backfire as the marker is likely to not have a sense of humour… but hey, if they like it you could earn some sympathy marks!

A friend once faced with this dire scenario decided to make a moving man flip book with her script book (where you draw the stick figure differently on each page corner). Somehow she passed! Anyhow, if it weren’t for the creativity of such people during exams we wouldn’t have gold material such as that below.

So we say yes - there does exist a scenario (which hopefully you’ll never be in) where exams can meet humour. Let them mix!

And some comic relief for you...