In UK exams, a “No Mention” was basically where you did so badly in an exam that they didn’t bother to mark it, and you weren’t actually listed as ever taking it.<\/p>\n
I got a No Mention for my A-Level Special Maths. I got talked into sitting it by my mate Matthew, who is a maths genius. It was on my 18th birthday, my last day at school, and a gorgeous day. <\/p>\n
When I opened the exam paper to see proofs of things involving frictionless pulleys and light, inextensible strings, something snapped. I wrote my name, then:<\/p>\n
1) I refuse to answer this question on the grounds that it is silly.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
I sat for a few minutes, watching the dust motes groove about in the light from the library windows, then walked out.<\/p>\n
Matthew got a special distinction, by the way. <\/p>\n
I would have liked to add that I went home and listened to “A Can of Bees” by The Soft Boys on my brother’s hi-fi. But I think he’d already left home by then, taking his record collection with him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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