There was once a college that offered a class on probability applied to the real world.

The class was relatively easy, but there was a catch. There were no homework assignments or tests, but there was a final exam that would have only one question on it.

When everyone received the test it was a blank sheet of paper with a solitary question on it: "What is risk?"

Most students were able to pass, but only one student received 100% for the class! Even stranger was that he only wrote down one word!

What did he write?

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I'll guess 'life'.

Ho's.

:eek:

leaving the page blank?

With no way to guage your performance, and not knowing whether you're absorbing the material or not, I'd say the whole class is a risk. I'd be a little hesitant on laying my GPA on a POS like that.

I'll guess 'this'

Everything

Reminds me of the class where they were assigned a final that was just one essay question: "What is courage?"

The students got to work but one young man handed his paper in immediately, with the paper saying "This is", and he walked out.