Tales from the hall?

trishemurphy

Fishie wrote:

Our English teacher told us that when his sister was doing the leaving cert years ago, a girl in her exam room committed suicide. She took one look at the paper, put two pencils up her nose, and then banged her head off the desk. the pencils went up her nose into her brain and killed her instantly. I highly doubt that it's true, but it's still quite gross... he told us this in a lecture about why we shouldn't get too worked up about the exams

you should've had a warning on that post man i wish i didn't read it :eek:

Scarinae

trishemurphy wrote:

you should've had a warning on that post man i wish i didn't read it :eek:

Ok, there's a warning on it now - but maybe you should take the quotation of my post out of your response in case someone reads that?

*Angel*

That seems a bit extreme, (tbh I can't believe it), depressing though.

D-Generate

I've heard that story before too but with a guy instead of a girl. I think its just an urban myth, t'is a good one though!

Scarinae

D-Generate wrote:

I've heard that story before too but with a guy instead of a girl. I think its just an urban myth, t'is a good one though!

Yeah, you can always tell it's a dodgy story when it starts with something like "My English teacher's sister knew a girl who..."

Cherry_Pie

Fishie wrote:

Our English teacher told us that when his sister was doing the leaving cert years ago, a girl in her exam room committed suicide. She took one look at the paper, put two pencils up her nose, and then banged her head off the desk. the pencils went up her nose into her brain and killed her instantly. I highly doubt that it's true, but it's still quite gross... he told us this in a lecture about why we shouldn't get too worked up about the exams

That actually did happen!

Scarinae

Cherry_Pie wrote:

That actually did happen!

Where? How do you know it's true?

Cherry_Pie

The best is the guy in Dublin about 2 years ago going into H Maths. Forgot his calculater and called his mam who was bringing it down. The exam started before she got there and the Aid said she would give it in to the supervisor for him!! So 10 mins in his calcuator arrives ..... only its the TV remote!!!!

Cherry_Pie

Fishie wrote:

Where? How do you know it's true?

Becuase it was all over the news when it happened! Remenber my dad telling me about it. Its awful!

Splinter

onnly u could come up with that story bout the remote lol. only funny story i got is when i was doin the helping the supervisers for 5th year during the lc and we were all bored so set up a television and a dreamcast outside the exam hall so we souldnt b too bored.

Cherry_Pie

Why doesn't that surprise me! Jesus the clock annoys me imagine BANG BANG BANG coming from outside!!!!! :eek:

Waltons

Good old snopes

Kevin_rc_ie

pissing in a bottle? that's weird.
the praying before the exam? contraversial.
the sucicide - depressing.

Splinter

without volume of course. we aint that bad. i think that pencils is a bit of an urban legend tbh. well im sure their must b some element of truth but i dunno

Cherry_Pie

"Without Volume!" Moo ye are that bad!!! I really wouldn't be surprised!!!!

wheresthebeef

ye guys are taking about exam halls. like we are in classrooms in my school about 15 students, one superintendant and an exam assitant outside the door (a TY or 5th Year Student).
Is that what ye mean by "hall"? I'd hate to do my exams in a giant room with loads of people. Its comfortable and more relaxing in a small room of people you know.

luckat

Suicide: a few years ago a boy killed himself because he was afraid he wouldn't get straight As in the Leaving.

I'd have to say that it sounds as if sometimes people who have been striving with one thing in mind - the exam - for several years lose their balance when the exam is over.

It's as if they've been pushing and pushing at a door, and suddenly *bang*, it's not there any more, and they fall flat.

Study???

I heard this story once where there was this guy called pam and he was doing his maths exam and came out and said "I didnt know what i was doing it was so hard." Eventually he realised after teachers talking to him that he done honours instead of foundation! I nearly wet myself when i heard that!

Gone West

tak out the name its against the charter

Africa

Lol so many funny stories...

Well the funniest ive been having so far is the maths exam, and the way it folded out! Near everyone was saying WTF when they first got them. Lol.

Also my mate who has long hair has to wear a hairband to keep it out of his face. Looks hilarious. He spent on average 45 mins in each mock just messing with his hair cause it always got in his way!This is his way of combatting it!

:Keith:

Fishie wrote:

Our English teacher told us that when his sister was doing the leaving cert years ago, a girl in her exam room committed suicide. She took one look at the paper, put two pencils up her nose, and then banged her head off the desk. the pencils went up her nose into her brain and killed her instantly. I highly doubt that it's true, but it's still quite gross... he told us this in a lecture about why we shouldn't get too worked up about the exams

I'd highly doubt that was true also because I'm nearly sure that if somebody tried that the pencils would probably end up rupturing their frontal sinuses and thats as far as they'd go. It would be a very messy affair.

scorpy

our supervisor dude is awesome. he really puts everyone at ease and even the prayer he said on the first day(he asked first if we wanted one, which was therefore fine by me) was funny. I think the best was when he was explaining about the gummed bits on the answer books and he told us the glue was strawberry-flavoured. everyone was a bit disappointed when it turned out not to be.
why on earth can't they just use sticky strips like on the art envelopes? my answer books keep coming unstuck...

Fortinbras'

scorpy wrote:

our supervisor dude is awesome. he really puts everyone at ease and even the prayer he said on the first day(he asked first if we wanted one, which was therefore fine by me) was funny. I think the best was when he was explaining about the gummed bits on the answer books and he told us the glue was strawberry-flavoured. everyone was a bit disappointed when it turned out not to be.
why on earth can't they just use sticky strips like on the art envelopes? my answer books keep coming unstuck...

I have created a thread expaining how to expertly seal the scripts see Here

Beno

Every afternoon exam there is a pidgion out side. And when someone chases it away 5 min later it back.
CHOO CHOOO CHOO

scorpy

Fortinbras' wrote:

I have created a thread expaining how to expertly seal the scripts see Here

excellent, I won't have to worry about the damn thing coming undone again! ^_^;

rose**

in our irish exam the other day when it was really warm, the teacher opened the fire escape door, lucky the alarm didnt go off. about 10 minutes later a swallow flew into the hall. it started diving at people and all the girls started screaming. it then flew towards the window and starting hitting it. everyone was getting kinda freaked and we were justing watching it flying around. everyone just started talking. then the bird kinda settled down. only to poop beside one of the girls, who started screaming. it eventually flew out but it was the funniest thing that could ave happened.

*Angel*

wheresthebeef wrote:

ye guys are taking about exam halls. like we are in classrooms in my school about 15 students, one superintendant and an exam assitant outside the door (a TY or 5th Year Student).
Is that what ye mean by "hall"? I'd hate to do my exams in a giant room with loads of people. Its comfortable and more relaxing in a small room of people you know.

I'm in a hall with our whole year (about 150) in it, 3 examiners kinda separated, but not really. I don't mind it actually cos you can see your friends around you. We were split into classrooms for the aural.

Rebel Chick

Our school is alongside a housing estate and someone was cutting their lawn during our irish exam. The supervisor called the assistant outside the door and told them to ask the person to stop cutting the grass because it was distracting us. It was soooo funny.

Tiffany

Our supervisor wore these boots with bells on them (like cats have on their collars) and she'd pace up and down while jingling, 'twas very distracting. Oh and she got tea and biscuits brought to her every feckin' 30 minutes. Where's our tea and biscuits?? Oh wait... that was 2 year ago, heh... :rolleyes:

Scarinae

Waltons wrote:

Good old snopes

Ha, I knew my English teacher musta added to the story