F in Exams

by Richard Benson

Published 1 September 2008

Q: Define the term ‘antagonist’.
A: Someone who tortures ants.

Q: What are levees?
A: Expensive jeans.

Sharpen your pencils and have your rulers at the ready – it’s time for more F in Exams!

School years pass by and new students come and go, but there are always more exams to take. And with more test papers come more ingenious (and inappropriate) answers! Here again, for your amusement, we’ve collected the best of the New Class, as hilarious, heart-warming and cringeworthy as ever.


F in Science

by Richard Benson

Published 7 November 2012
If the thought of science exams conjures





up the memory of singeing your





eyebrow on a Bunsen burner, then take





comfort in this cracking, all-new, funsize





dose of F in Exams, containing





some of the most glorious howlers from





school science exams.

F in School

by Richard Benson

Published 4 November 2013
Ahh, glorious school days... It's no wonder they went so quickly with all the exams, the classroom fun, the sticky situations to get out of, the work to avoid and the teachers to annoy. Enjoy this new collection of hilarious exam answers, along with schoolyard jokes, amusing doodles, silly excuses, spelling slip-ups and loads more!

F in English

by Richard Benson

Published 7 November 2012

If your vocabulary is more Bart Simpson than the Bard, then take comfort in this cracking, all-new, fun-size dose of F in Exams, containing some of the most spectacular howlers from school English exams.


F in Geography

by Richard Benson

Published 7 November 2012
If you get perspiration and precipitation





confused, then take comfort in this





hilarious, all-new, fun-size dose of F in





Exams, containing some of the most





cringeworthy howlers from school





Geography exams.

F in History

by Richard Benson

Published 7 November 2012

If you don't know a cold war from a cold sore, then take comfort in this cracking, all-new, fun-size dose of F in Exams, containing some of the worst howlers from school history exams.


F in Retakes

by Richard Benson

Published 3 October 2012
The F in Exams are over, the results are in and just when you thought it was safe to go back in the classroom... BANG! It's time for F in Retakes!











Enjoy another heady dose of hilarious answers that canny students have given to the trickiest exam questions.

F in Spelling

by Richard Benson

Published 6 November 2014

We all know that the written word is full of traps for the unwary, and this goes double for those in their early years of learning it. An earnest attempt at constructing a beautiful, articulate sentence can fall to pieces within the space of a few letters, sometimes with hilarious consequences!

Enjoy this collection of side-splitting spelling slip-ups ranging from the charming to the ridiculous, and the cute to the unintentionally X-rated!