I got an A-levelby doing no work. It was a Design/Technology one that was massively coursework based, and it was awful. The teachers were awful, the subject dull as dishwater, and so it didn't really appeal - so I slacked. I did however work hard on my other subjects, so I had a fairly good reputation.
Time came to hand in all our project folders, which naturally I couldn't do, not having a project to actually hand in, but I diverted attention by handing in the work of a couple of my friends for them. A few weeks later and my teacher came over to me and asked if I'd handed my folder in... 'Of course,' I said, 'you saw me.' He then muttered a bit and then told me he had lost my folder, and he'd write to the exam board and explain what had happened and that he'd definitely seen it.
I got a D - not great, but as mentioned, I really didn't care for the subject (and this was back in the days when A-levels were in some way hard). All because he had to explain that he'd lost the folder and suggest I get an average mark for the class.
It's not clever but it is potentially big.
(Time came to hand in all our project folders, which naturally I couldn't do, not having a project to actually hand in, but I diverted attention by handing in the work of a couple of my friends for them. A few weeks later and my teacher came over to me and asked if I'd handed my folder in... 'Of course,' I said, 'you saw me.' He then muttered a bit and then told me he had lost my folder, and he'd write to the exam board and explain what had happened and that he'd definitely seen it.
I got a D - not great, but as mentioned, I really didn't care for the subject (and this was back in the days when A-levels were in some way hard). All because he had to explain that he'd lost the folder and suggest I get an average mark for the class.
It's not clever but it is potentially big.
Irregular Shed is trying to remember what it is he does,
Tue 25 Nov 2003, 13:08,
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