A teacher has prepared a test for two of her students.
Now one of these kids is very clever but the other one is a bit slow, to say the least.
The test has 10 questions and the teacher sits both students down in the classroom and gives them 45 minutes to complete the test.
Once completed by the students, the test papers are sent away for independent marking and assessment.
When the teacher receives the marked test papers back, she looks at the slow kid’s mark first. He’s been given 9 out of 10.
“That’s astonishing!” the teacher thinks to herself.
She then looks at the clever kid’s mark and he too has been given 9 out of 10.
“That can’t be right,” the teacher exclaims.
So she goes through the clever kid’s paper in detail.
The first nine questions he’s got all right. However, for the tenth question, he’s simply written, “Sorry mam, but I don’t know the answer to this question.”
So the teacher then goes through the slow kid’s paper in detail.
Again he’s got the first nine questions all right. And then for the tenth question he’s written, “I don’t know the answer either.”