Kid has brilliantly cutting response to a test question

Take that, SATs.
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Sam Haysom
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LONDON -- Kids really do have a way with words.

UK-based primary school teacher Damith Bandara recently took to Facebook to share an answer one of his children gave on a SATs test question (SATs are the tests 10- and 11-year-olds take before moving on to secondary school). 

It's fair to say the kid in question didn't mess around with their response.


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"One of my children wrote this on the grammar paper," wrote Bandara. "The question was to write the word 'point' as verb and noun.

"The answer you see is for the latter! An intelligent response I thought."


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Bandara's post has been shared more than 4,000 times in the last 20 hours.

The kid's answer seemed to go down well with commenters.

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We don't know how well the unnamed pupil did in the test, but with a quick wit like that they'll surely go far.

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Sam Haysom

Sam Haysom is the Deputy UK Editor for Mashable. He covers entertainment and online culture, and writes horror fiction in his spare time.

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