Worlds Shortest Essay

[Innes]

This is a story of a 16 year old boy from New Hampshire who won the
World's shortest essay competition.

He was awarded a scholarship at the University of Harvard for his
Imagination and humor ....Here's an example of absolute
Brilliance.. ..

Shortest Essay:

An English university creative writing class was asked to write a
Concise essay containing the following elements:


1) Religion 2) Royalty 3) Sex 4) Mystery

The prize-winner wrote:

"My God," said the Queen, "I'm pregnant. I wonder who the father is."

[Zaxgod]

Haha brilliant! Although letting him into harvard's a bit much! Some kid who never goes to lesson and is a trouble causer could've written that really.

My friend's teacher said they had an english exam and the question was "what is courage" and he wrote "this is" and got an A! Don't know how reliable that is though :p

[Renegade]

My friend's teacher said they had an english exam and the question was "what is courage" and he wrote "this is" and got an A! Don't know how reliable that is though :p

That's stunning!

My friend had an idea for his Final Year Project, to prove that plagiarism software is unreliable - take a Final Year Project from another student, and hand it in. Then, hand in a follow up with one line at the end saying 'This Project is entirely plagiarised - the software does not work'.

Nobody has been brave enough to do it yet....

[Pie In The Sky]

A lad from our school a few years back has gone down as legend because when he went for an interview for Oxford, one of the questions they asked him (which apparantly is quite a common one) was 'How can one prove themselves to be brave?'.
He said, 'heres an example...' and he walked out of the interveiw.

He didn't get the place at oxford.

[Zaxgod]

Lmao really? thats so harsh! Maybe they thought it was crossing the line between brave and stupid :P

[Azure]

Wouldn't it be less effort to say "Fight a lion barehanded?".

Or increasingly, "walk my street at night".

[IcemanLeigh]

One of the Psychology papers a few years before I took mine had a section entitled: Is this a question? Someone in the exam at the time wrote 'is this an answer?' and got full marks. ;)

[Infidel]

I could understand getting full marks for that if it was Philosophy, but even then you may need to explore and develop the point more, but Phsycology? i wouldnt have thought that was acceptable.

[carocat]

Not so much short, more 'I want that teacher'..

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[Enraged Wang 07]

Our English Language teacher at college sent this one to us.

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[Azure]

Theres a funny one on "funnyexamanswers.com" or whatever its called.


An engineer called Jim makes a blah blah blah heat exchanger to absorb heat out the ocean on a boat at blah blah blah, he tries this but his boss fires him. Explain."

"Jim slept with his bosses wife"

[Renegade]

Question: "Tracey states that: *blah blah blah, masses of mathematics statements*. Tracey is wrong. Give an example to show why Tracey is wrong."


Answer: "She's a woman."

[quickshot89]

thats like the find x on the graph

circle x, here it is!

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