English exam

It was the final examination for an introductory English course at the local university. Like many such freshman courses, it was designed to weed out new students, having over 700 students in the class!
The examination was two hours long and exam booklets were provided. The professor was very strict and told the class that any exam that was not on his desk in exactly two hours would not be accepted and and the student would fail. A half hour into the exam, a student came rushing in and asked the professor for an exam booklet.

A Student’s Request for Extra Money

A student called up his Mom one evening from his college and asked her for some money because he was broke.
His Mother said, “Sure, sweetie. I will send you some money. You also left your economics book here when you visited two week ago. Do you want me to send that up too?”
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“Uhh, oh yeah, OK.” responded the kid.
So, his Mom wrapped the book along with the checks up in a package, kissed Dad goodbye and went to the post office to mail the money and the book. When she got back, Dad asked, ”Well how much did you give the boy this time?”
“Oh, I wrote two checks, one for $20 and the other for $1,000.”
“That’s $1020!!!” yelled Dad, ”Are you going crazy???”
“I taped the $20 check to the cover of his book, but I put the $1,000 one somewhere between the pages in chapter 15!”

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