"It was the answer to the last question on the final exam I just gave."

Nobody asked me how I had done on the exam.

How in God's name are they supposed to focus on exams?

There's no relationship between that and whether it's on the exam or not.

Only 60 out of the first 75 questions on the exam will count.

"Is this question going to be on the final exam?"

But on the writing exam, their scores fell by two points.

And the thing of it was: I always got higher scores on exams than him.

Your performance on exams has qualified you for special treatment.

This isn't something that's on exams, but it happened to me once.