Times Higher Education runs a traditional annual festival of students’ examination howlers. Some of them are actully quite good:
“Nirvana cannot be described because there are no words in existence for doing so. Not non-existence either, it is beyond the very ideas of existing and not existing.”
But this is from an actual examination script in my Foundation Year course:
“The only proof I can offer is that I remember that
is irrational, according to 1984, human memory is more important than proof as proof can be altered, memory can not.”
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