We’ve all received emails where students write the most ridiculous answers when they can’t answer the questions. I have not had the opportunity to come across answers like that in real life, but some of the answers I have seen are amusing enough in their own way. For this online collection, I will only include answers those that students have agreed to let me upload And if I mention names, it’s because they have REQUESTED for their names to be included…

So far it’s just this one though.

2009

The best way to identify an unknown chemical compound is to…

The question is: How do you confirm the salt contains copper(II) ions and sulphate ions? This being a Chemistry paper, obviously, the student is supposed to write chemical tests to confirm the presence of the aforementioned ions. Not Daniel Chew, of course.

And he wanted to try this for real during the Chemistry practical session