It came as no surprise to me......
Failed.

Technical drawing GCSE.

Should have been a breeze - I had 2 years to produce about 15 bits of A3 paper regarding 'the record industry' and only managed to produce one. (that was only the words, 'The Record Industry' in neat writing and a record - which, because it was 'technical' drawing, I produced using a compass).

Anyway, that was it, one piece of paper and no information at all to support this 2 year project.

I got a major bollocking from the head for this, in fact, as a student who never did anything wrong, I got the biggest bollocking of everyone (of a class of about 25, 21 people either handed in nothing, or the same as me).

Anyway, it gets to exam time and we are all told that 'there is no point any of you entering this exam, you've not done your course work' - so most people didn't bother turning up.

I - however - remembered what they'd told us before the exams started, that was, if you failed to show for an exam without good reason, you'd have to pay about £25.00 or so.

So I turned up.

The first question was 'produce an exploded view of this '

I got all of the coloured pencils I could find and wrote the word 'BANG' and spent the next twenty minutes drawing a massive explosion.

I failed.

However, my folks were delighted in the end, because, 'apparently, Dave didn't bother going, and his parents had to pay for the exam'.

If I'd have put so much work into Technical Drawing as I have this story, I'd be quid's in.

Bah!
( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Mon 8 Jan 2007, 13:29, Reply)