Ask yourself

While taking a psych. course in college, the teacher had a habit of putting
the following questions on an exam:

Ask yourself a question and answer it

Being a math major, I asked myself Solve the following differential equation
[* equation deleted *] under the following conditions [* conditions deleted *]
and proceeded to solve it.

The next day I stopped by the math office to see one of the profs. Hetold me
Go away, I'm stuck grading your stupid psych. exam. I got full credit, and the
psych prof. never put that question on an exam again.