17 Movie Quotes about Exams (+ Sound Clips)

Updated: Apr 29, 2026

Memorable quotes about exams, selected from famous or less known movies by Movie-Sounds.org's visitors, accompanied by short mp3 and wav audio samples.

1 Gonna be a pop quiz on Wednesday. There's a pop quiz. Pop quiz.

Eddie Murphy as Sherman Klump in The Nutty Professor (1996)

2 We have a 20 question quiz every Friday. Your grade is the average of all your quizzes, plus the midterm and final which counts for one-third. Got it?

Sean Penn as Jeff Spicoli in Fast Times at Ridgemont High

3 Math test. Oh, no.

Barret Oliver as Bastian Balthazar Bux in The NeverEnding Story (1984)

4 False? Why did you put down false, Chuck? The answer is true. Put down true, Chuck. What's true is true. Put down true, Chuck, or I'll never speak to you again.

Patricia Patts as Peppermint Patty in Bon Voyage, Charlie Brown

5 Oh, no, ma'am, she's not giving me the answers. Forcing, maybe, but not giving.

Arrin Skelley as Charlie Brown in Bon Voyage, Charlie Brown

6 The only way you and I ever made it through school was by cheating off each other's test papers. Jesus, they were identical. But I always felt safe knowing that. Cause whatever the answer was, we were right together, and we were wrong together.

Marlon From The Truman Show in The Truman Show

7 Because when I was young and I'd get an A on a history test or whatever, I'd get this good feeling about all the things that I could be. And then I never became any of them.

Will Smith as Chris Gardner in The Pursuit of Happyness

8 When it's time to pass the test... Kindergarten is the best.

Arnold Schwarzenegger as Detective John Kimble in Kindergarten Cop

9 That question was not fair. That was not in the reading. I demand a new question.

Bradley Whitford as Eric Gordon in Billy Madison

10 You know what's weird about your quizzes, is that all the work is right and just the answers are wrong.

Lindsay Lohan as Cady Heron in Mean Girls (2004)