- A very bright student bulls**ting his way in a question of the final exam. He had obviously not read the article. So he constructed a beautifully argued answer, with only one problem: it started with a false premise. As an exercise in rhetoric, it's brilliant. As an answer to my question, it's a 0.
- A student mixing up the day of the final exam. I emailed her to ask if something was wrong, and she emailed me back a day later, saying "OMG, I'm freaking out. I can't believe I got the day of the final exam wrong. I mean, I had even studied and everything...". To celebrate that she had "even studied and everything", I was nice and arranged for her to take the exam today.
- A student saying that Eduardo Galeano was a liberal (in the John Locke sense) individualist who wrote reacting to Latin American Marxist thought in the XXth century. This was an open book exam, by the way.
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