The Instructions

This is the big day, they said. This is it.

This is the day where you get to show what you know.

This is the day where you get to prove yourself.

You’ve been practicing so long.

And now it’s time to show your skills.

And you’ve got them. You’ve got the skills.

We’ve drilled you well and we know you have the skills.

Now it’s time to show what you know.

In a minute we’ll be passing out the papers.

But first, there are a few instructions we want to go over with you.

Don’t forget to write your name on the cover page.

If you don’t write your name, we won’t know whose paper it is.

Simple. Right?

Put your name on the cover page in capital letters. In pencil.

You must use pencil. Do you understand?

We feel that you are prepared.

You have been preparing all along.

We have been preparing you.

Though you might not realize it, you are prepared.

But the most important thing to remember is the box.

When you are filling in your answers, write inside the box.

Don’t write outside the box.

You must only write inside the box.

When we practiced, sometimes we allowed you to write outside the box.

But that’s because we were just practicing.

Now you know all the right answers.

Now you know exactly what you need to write.

Don’t make up your own stuff to write.

Just write what we told you to write.

If you make up your own stuff, you will need more space.

More space means going outside the box.

If you make up your own stuff, you will have the wrong answer.

Wrong answers mean failure.

And this is the real thing.

You can’t fail.

So you can’t write outside the box.

We can’t stress this enough.

You can’t write outside the box.

If you write outside the box the scanner won’t read what you wrote.

The scanner is programmed to read only what is inside the box.

So make sure you stay inside it.

If you go outside the box, you will fail.

We can’t stress this enough.

The scanner won’t read what you wrote.

Don’t go outside the box.

Do you understand?

This is the big day. This is it.

This is the day where you get to show what you know.

This is the day where you get to prove yourself.

You need to follow the instructions.

Write your name on the cover page in capital letters in pencil.

Don’t write outside the box.

If you write outside the box the scanner won’t read what you wrote.

If you write outside the box you will fail.

Do you understand?

You need to follow the instructions.

Name on cover page in caps and pencil.

Don’t write outside the box.

Write outside, and the scanner won’t read it.

Write outside, you fail.

Get it?

Understand?

Name on cover. Caps. Pencil.

Don’t write outside the box.

Write outside, scanner won’t read it.

Write outside, fail.

Don’t write outside the box.

Simple.

Don’t write outside the box.

Get it?