<p>So, what what was the most awful homework assignment you ever had to do?</p>
<p>Having to read Great Expectations. A year on, I still haven’t finished it and the exam’s only 3 months away.</p>
<p>Worst homework ever? Not sure. My worst project over was when I had to give a 90 (yes, ninety) minute presentation in one class. Just kept talking and talking and talking. Brutally long.</p>
<p>Oh god. 90 minute presentation sounds horrible, my sympathies. :(</p>
<p>Earlier this year, I had an assignment in Honors Chem, where a number of the students weren’t understanding the past unit’s material, so the teacher thought it would be a great idea if he made the passing students teach the failing students the material. There were a lot of failing students, unfortunately, so each student had around 3-4 others to teach.</p>
<p>We had 3 days to teach them the material. Afterwards they would have a test. The average grade the students got on the test would be your test grade.
I managed to get an A, but that’s only because the students actually cared about their grade and I held study sessions after school.A lot of people got their first D’s and C’s in that class…</p>
<p>@Propinquity: That’s just stupid. Your grade shouldn’t depend completely on someone else…</p>
<p>Hmm worst assignments ever:</p>
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<li><p>We had to plan out a month-long vacation for one of my summatives last year. Plan out as in research EVERYTHING, including places to stay, modes of transportation, places to eat, in addition to things to do (which we were supposed to relate to our curriculum).</p></li>
<li><p>Also last year, I had to do a 45-minute presentation centered around a thesis in Spanish. We weren’t allowed any notes, and keep in mind, this was our first year learning Spanish.</p></li>
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<p>all of them</p>
<p>Probably in Honors Chemistry when I had to teach the class Stoichiometry. Worst experience/assignment ever. Nobody understood what I was talking about and I could tell. My powerpoint was also ugly.</p>
<p>In 9th grade US History when my teacher decided she didn’t want to teach because she thought we were disrespectful. We were each responsible for one class period on teaching a section on the book. I don’t think my teacher actually taught from March on.
Also in 8th grade we had to do a meditation assignment for Torah (Jewish bible) class.
Write a paper on what a relationship needs.</p>
<p>Well every time I have to do something for AP Bio I literally cry and ask myself why I still haven’t dropped the class five months in.</p>
<p>Also reading Heart of Darkness was bad (just finished like 20 min ago). And now we have to analyze it for a week.</p>
<p>Watching a 4 hour video on how Mormonism is “oh-so-great” and then writing a report about it. So much for freedom of religion.</p>
<p>Planning out an ecofriendly high school in my city. Like we actually had to find a plot of land that existed and plan the damn thing out. We had to made blueprints and also build a working model. ***? It didn’t have to be very big but it had to work. After we were done, we had to give a 2 hr presentation to the class and they had to decide whether it was a good idea. I hated Ap Enviro soo damn much.
Also I was supposed to read Heart of Darkness two months ago and I’m still on page 11. It’s so boring and I keep falling asleep. So yea were supposed to teach a chapter to the class and analyze it. I’m doing like the last part of the book. I Dont get this 
I hate IB.</p>
<p>The Extended Essay.</p>
<p>Freshman Year. Honors Biology. We had to breed Tribbles (from Star Trek) and make their punnet squares, some of which were 4x4. I am now a junior and people still talk about the assignment</p>
<p>Maybe not the worst for me, but my sister had a really strange teacher, for a class all freshmen at out school have to take called Orientation. And he was a kind quirky and a little bit weird.</p>
<p>So since theres not really a straightforward, set curriculum for the he had the students write down the Star Spangled Banner, and for every word you got wrong, you had 10 points taken off. And the whole thing was worth 1000 points. And only my sister and 3 other kids got 100%. You’d be surprised how many people don’t know the national anthem…</p>
<p>My worst “assignment” was a final in US History (in 12th grade!) – the teacher gave us this study guide with MC/true-false questions, and we went over the answers. She announced beforehand that the final would be the exact same as the study guide, except closed-book, closed-note etc.</p>
<p>About 20 minutes before the final, I realized I could just convert T/F to binary – for example TTFTFTFTT = 110101011 = 427. So I memorized the answers for all 30 or so T/F questions using three 3-digit numbers. Got an A on the final.</p>
<p>I had to read A Tale of Two Cities in a week. Wound up using Cliffnotes to pass the test since the deadline was impossible and every character in that book was so dang incoherent.</p>
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<li><p>A hot mess of a research paper that was extremely unclear and dubbed “The Research Paper Crisis of 2013”</p></li>
<li><p>Exploravision for science research. Pointless. And did not advance any of our research. </p></li>
<li><p>Algebra II Honors write a test project. Every single freaking marking period we have to crate a test encompassing everything we learned that marking period. It takes forever, is 100 points.</p></li>
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<p>Here is my List of My Top 3 Worst Assignments,</p>
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<li><p>AP European History - Having to take notes on my notes (Yes that was pointless lol)</p></li>
<li><p>AP Art History - Having to do a Research Paper on The History of the Golden Ratio…</p></li>
<li><p>Honors Chemistry - Teaching the class the history of the atomic structure. (My class was really slow, it took 30 minutes because the typical jokester was messing around with the presentation…)</p></li>
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<p>Honors Precalc: having to teach the class applications of exponential and logarithmic functions. I had to to work with this completely conceited, self-centered guy, and we did not collaborate at all, whatsoever. He was perfectly coherent during his part of the presentation, but I’m pretty sure not a single person in the class understood what I was saying…</p>
<p>Most tedious:
Stop-motion animation film for Computer Apps. I don’t understand Flash or Photoshop, so I did mine using MS Paint and Windows Movie Maker. It sucked and took forever to make.</p>
<p>Most blatantly stupid:
Fill-in-the-blank quizzes in World Geography in which the teacher puts the word bank on the board in the same order as the answers.</p>