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The Hero has spent months honing their body and mind, learning various martial art styles and weapon proficiency, running on tight-ropes, hiking for miles without stopping, and now knows everything about the Evil Overlord they are destined to defeat. Now all they need to do is take the Ultimate Final Exam to prove to their teachers and themself that they are ready to fulfill his destiny... and it's a Calculus Exam. They'll need a black pen, a blue pen and their own scantron sheet, but thankfully it's multiple choice. Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })When the Achievement Test of Destiny is an astonishingly normal test compared to the Training from Hell it took to learn, like a regular math quiz or trivia game, than it can really catch the protagonist — and by extension the audience — off-guard. Sometimes the test will instead be a series of tests, the most mundane of them being treated like the most important one. If the protagonist sucks at the thing the test is primarily meant for, expect them to pass anyway because, as Rule of Funny dictates, the test's final grade disproportionately hinges on their surprisingly useful Chekhov's Skill. This is done either as a Hidden Purpose Test to show that certain skills, knowledge or morals can go a long way, or it just goes to show the Skewed Priorities of the ones who commissioned the test in the first place. Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); })Compare Incomprehensible Entrance Exam. See also Inept Aptitude Test. Examples: |
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In The Dragon and the Butterfly, Alma trains Mirabel to take over for her as "Candle Holder" when she retires, essentially making her the Chieftess to the Encanto. Its revealed that the final test was going to be a math quiz (something Mirabel theorized it would be, but dismissed) because it was the one thing she wasn't good at, but decides to forgo the test all together after Mirabel rallies everyone in the village to defend themselves from the Screaming Death. | |
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In the Dave the Barbarian episode "Rite of Pillage", Dave is put through a series of tests to prove that he is a true Barbarian or else suffer shame for all of eternity. While he fails most of the tests, Dave ends up passing his Rite of Pillage because Penmanship (the one thing he is good at) counts for 70% of his final grade. | |
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In the Duck Dodgers episode "Master & Disaster", the villain "The Woosh" was Master Moloch's best student Dennis. The reason why he took to crime is that despite being a prodigy in Gibbon Fist Kung Fu, he made a B- on his final exam because the written portion makes up half of his final grade. | |
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Not Always Learning: Invoked by this professor, who offers a six (a barely passing grade) to anyone that doesn't want to take the exam. After over half the class leaves, the test is revealed to only have one question: name. This pop quiz is worth as much as a major assignment, but is full of very self-explanatory questions like "Who is buried in Grant's Tomb?" It ends up being a ruse to penalize class-skipping students. |
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The Order of the Stick: To reach the Oracle, the Order needs to past three tests: The Test of the Body, the Test of the Mind, and the Test of the Heart. While the former two are appropriately fantastical (a battle against a hydra that got buried in its own excess heads and a Knights and Knaves conundrum that Haley solved quite violently, respectively), the Test of the Heart is just a medical examination. Apparently it got put in place after a guy died of a heart attack at the Oracle right after being told he would, leading to massive lawsuits from his family. | |
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In The Powerpuff Girls (1998) episode "Him Diddle Riddle", the various trials Him has the Powerpuff Girls complete or else "the professor will pay" include saving a bus full of helpless civilians, fighting a Kaiju without their powers, stopping a train collision, reaching a phone across town without flying, choosing between a truth-telling Ms. Keene and an imposter who always lies and saving one of them from being dunked in boiling sharks... and an SAT test. While Blossom is the smart one and manages to solve all of the other riddles, she ironically scores the lowest on the test. Bubbles is the one that passes the SAT by drawing a daisy on the scantron. | |
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Zig-zagged in Naruto with the Chunin Exams. There are four phases to the exam. Phases two and three are ninja fieldwork (surviving a dangerous forest, dueling other ninjas), but phase one is a nine-question written exam, with everything from practical math to behavioral questions. However, these questions are ludicrously hard, and only extremely intelligent Genin like Sakura are capable of answering them on their own, by design. In reality, the written exam is a test of one's ability to conduct covert espionage and gather intelligence, as there are two exam takers who know the answers and are placed strategically for the Genin to copy off of, so long as they can do it without getting caught. | |
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Invoked in the SpongeBob SquarePants episode "No Free Rides". Mrs. Puff tries to get SpongeBob out of her boating class by giving him an "extra credit" assignment where he has to write a 10-word essay about what he learned at school. But when SpongeBob has a meltdown about what to write that ends in the paper getting ripped in half, she passes him anyway. | |
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