A Funny Timed Test

The following material was presented to the participants in the Teacher’s Professional Development Training (2072) organized by the Educational Training Centre, Ilam, Nepal. You can follow it and may get a new insight like all the participants in the training. This is a timed test to be done with many other participants. You have only five minutes to complete the whole exercise.




A Timed Test


  1. Read carefully before doing or writing anything.
  2. Put your name in the upper right hand corner of this paper.
  3. Circle the word name in sentence two.
  4. Draw five small squares in the top left hand corner of the paper.
  5. Put an x in alternate squares.
  6. Put a circle in the other squares.
  7. Write ‘yes’ or ‘no’ after the test title.
  8. Put a question mark at the end of this sentence.
  9. Underline the word ‘corner’ in instruction 4.
  10. If you have carefully followed all the instructions so far, call our, “I have”.
  11. Go back and read instruction No. 1 again.
  12. Correct any errors you have made so far.
  13. Circle all the even numbers on the left side of this paper.
  14. Multiply 6461 x 4687.
  15. Punch a small hole here >   < with your pen or pencil.
  16. In your normal voice, count backwards from ten to one.
  17. Add 646564 and 6646.
  18. Divide 455654 by 2.
  19. If you are the first person to reach here, shout out “I’ve nearly finished!”
  20. Now you have read everything, do only nos. 1 and 2.
  21. Should you finish before the time is up, draw a picture below:










Well Done!


I hope that you’ve got what I mean. Most of our students answer the question without reading the instructions carefully and regret afterwards. This weakness may be minimized with the help of this game like activity. 

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