For lack of proofreading, attention or simply because of stress, some students once wrote a few pearls in their copies of the patent. Anthology of the best pearls discovered by proofreaders.
It’s the big day for thousands of college students who take their history-geography test this Friday, July 1, with a view to obtaining the National Certificate (DNB). A exam official on which they will have to concentrate for two hours. A sufficient time lapse for some students to indulge in lapses in attentionof the spelling errors and other unfortunate shortcuts. For the teachers who correct them, these “pearls” at least have the merit of distracting them, even if their teeth sometimes cringe before certain enormities. Because if some slips sometimes turn out to be very funny, others tend to make examiners’ hair stand on end.
Some shells are so insane that they are shared on the Internet and social networks by the teachers themselves. For the occasion, we have selected the most beautiful pearls discovered in copies of the patent.
The best patent pearls
In video on Youtube, a teacher who corrected certain copies of the patent, on the History-Geography-EMC test in 2021, noted a dozen small pearls. For History, the starting instructions were as follows: “Write a constructed development to show how the two blocs clashed during the Cold War.” An instruction that inspired some students. Among them :
- “The Cold War was a bloody war in which soldiers over-trained in the trenches.”
- “The Cold War is a war of words between France and Germany, in the end they created Europe.”
- “The Battle of Waterloo lands in 1945 to liberate Russia.”
Our favorites :
- “The Cold War is a long, cold battle over which is hotter.”
- “There are the reds and the blues which clash in the North and in the South.”
For the geography test last year, the students had to do an analysis on a text and a document that showed how the Jura region was trying to attract tourists. And again some people didn’t really pay attention to what they were writing:
- “On this brochure we can see the Jura, the best of all cheeses.”
The perplexing pearls of the patent
By searching on the Internet, you can also come across certain gems that leave you speechless.. Point made a compilation, here are some of them:
- “Adolf Hitler, German politician, Nobel Peace Prize in 1945.”
- “In general, the European Union has quite strong countries, apart from a few (Greece, Ireland, Spain, Italy, Portugal, Romania, Bulgaria, France…)”
- “Julius Caesar defeated Asterix at Alesia.”
- “By analyzing the skeletons, scientists can determine if someone is really dead.”
- “The motto of France is “Liberty, Equality, Fertility.”
And you, have you ever heard of the really funny pearls of the patent?