Krillion prompt · October 27, 2026
Name a part of the school year (events like prom count too)
Krillion accepted 580 answers for this prompt in Dive #104. They’re all below, starting at the trench floor with the gem and rising to the Plankton everyone thinks of first.
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Notes on this prompt
- With 580 accepted answers, this prompt is close to a typical Krillion prompt (about 598).
- 422 answers (73%) are Deep Cuts and 123 are Rare, while 6 sit at Plankton.
Quick picks
The shortest Rare or deeper answers, easy to type before the timer runs out.
SATs +60 Block +60 GCSEs +60
Also accepted elsewhere
The same answer counted for a different prompt in the archive.
Every accepted answer
One in a Krillion
The gem picked for each prompt. Trench floor.
- Raisin weekend
St Andrews students celebrate Raisin Monday with a giant foam fight.
Deep Cut
Real obscurity. This is where the list gets long.
- 11-plus
- Abitur
- ACT WorkKeys
- Advanced Highers
- Advanced Subjects Test
- Advising week
- Affinity graduation
- ANBK
- Anti-Bullying Week
- Anything but a backpack day
- April holidays
- AS-levels
- Ascension break
- ATAR exams
- Auditions
- August vacation
- Avurudu holidays
- Bac
- Baccalaureate
- Bagrut
- Ballagás
- Basic Level Examination
- BECE
- Bein hazmanim
- Bênção das Fitas
- Best Start assessment
- BGCSE exams
- Bicker
- Bid day
- Big Match season
- Bihu holidays
- Bike to School Day
- Block break
- Blocus
- Botswana Junior Certificate exams
- Brevet
- Bridge day
- Brigada Eskwela
- Bring your parent to school day
- Buwan ng Wika
- Candlemas semester
- CAP exam
- CAPE exams
- Carol service
- Catholic Schools Week
- CCSLC exams
- CE1D
- CEB
- Census date
- Character Counts week
- Character day
- Check-in assessment
- Chhath holidays
- Children in Need day
- Children's Day celebration
- Christmas exams
- Christmas jumper day
- Chumash ceremony
- Chuseok holiday
- Class Day
- Class night
- Co-op term
- Cogestione
- Collections
- College day
- Columbus Day break
- Coming-of-age ceremony
- Commemoration
- Common Entrance
- Common Test
- Conseil de classe
- Continual assessment
- Course evaluation period
- Courtwarming
- CPEA
- Cross-country day
- CSEC exams
- Culminating week
- Dakhil exams
- Dance marathon
- Dance show
- DARE graduation
- Day for Daniel
- Dean's Date
- Deer season break
- Día de la Paz
- Día del Estudiante
- Dies academicus
- Diploma exams
- Dissertation deadline
- Diversity week
- Doorstroomtoets
- Dragon Boat Festival holiday
- Drama festival
- Dussehra break
- Easter bonnet parade
- Easter term
- Education Week
- EGE
- Egzamin ósmoklasisty
- Eighth grade trip
- Eindexamens
- Eisteddfod
- Election Day break
- Elul zman
- Encaenia
- End-of-year show
- ENEM
- Entrance ceremony
- Entrance exam season
- Epiphany term
- Érettségi
- Esame di terza media
- Exam review day
- Examenfeier
- Exames nacionais
- Exchange trip
- Exeat
- Exit exams
- Extended school year
- Extended term
- Family night
- Festa Junina
- Festival de primavera
- FFA Week
- Field period
- Fiestas Patrias break
- Finnish matriculation exam
- Folkeskolens afgangsprøver
- Foundation Scholarship exams
- Founders' Day
- Freshers' party
- Full term
- Gakugeikai
- Ganesh Chaturthi holidays
- GAT
- Geography bee
- Golden Week
- Grade 10 entrance exam
- Grade 5 scholarship exam
- Grade One Individual Learning Profile
- Graduation assessments
- Greek week
- GSAT
- Hanukkah break
- Harmony Week
- Harvest break
- Harvest festival
- Hexamester
- High Holidays break
- Highers
- Hilary term
- History bee
- History day
- Hitzefrei
- HKALE
- HKCEE
- HKDSE
- Holi holidays
- Holiday shop
- Home visit week
- Housing selection
- Huikao
- Hundred-day oath rally
- IGCSEs
- Information night
- Internal assessment
- Internship semester
- Intramurals
- Invention convention
- Investiture
- Ivy Day
- J-term
- Jamaica School Certificate exams
- Jamaica Student Readiness Assessment
- JCE Malawi exams
- Jornada intensiva
- Jugendfest
- Jump Rope for Heart
- Junior Cert
- Jura de la bandera
- Juwenalia
- KCPE
- KCSE
- Khmer New Year break
- KILEA
- Kindergarten round-up
- Kindness week
- KJSEA
- KPLEA
- KPSEA
- Last Bell
- Leavers' day
- Leaving Cert
- Lent term
- Losar holidays
- Lucia procession
- Maker faire
- Māori Language Week
- Marching band season
- Martinmas semester
- Matric
- Matriculation
- Matura
- May Ball
- May holidays
- May Week
- Maymester
- Mays
- Memorial Day break
- Michaelmas term
- Mid-Autumn holiday
- Military ball
- Military training
- Minimester
- Ministry exams
- Mittlere Reife exams
- MLK Day break
- Mods
- Monthly exams
- Mountain Day
- Movable holiday days
- Move-out day
- MSCE exams
- Multiplication tables check
- N-levels
- NAIDOC Week
- NAPLAN
- National 5s
- National Achievement Test
- National Honor Society induction
- NCE exams
- NCEA exams
- NCTVET exams
- NECO exams
- NECTA exams
- Ninth week
- Noughth week
- Nova Scotia Examinations
- Nowruz holidays
- NTCET exams
- NVQ-J exams
- NZ Scholarship exams
- O-NET
- Obon break
- Occasional day
- Octomester
- Onam exam
- Onam holidays
- Open class day
- Options evening
- Orange Shirt Day
- OSSLT
- PAA exams
- PAES
- Pageant
- Pancyprian exams
- Panhellenic exams
- Parents' Day
- Pasowanie na ucznia
- Pass/fail deadline
- Passover break
- PAT testing
- Pchum Ben break
- PDT exams
- Penkkarit
- Pentas seni
- Periodic test
- Pet day
- Phonics screening check
- Pink Shirt Day
- Pinning ceremony
- Placement season
- PNG basic education exams
- PNG lower secondary exams
- PNG STEM exams
- PNG upper secondary exams
- Połowinki
- Polyfest
- Post-exam activities
- Pre-finals
- Pre-orientation
- Pre-sessional
- PreACT
- Přijímačky
- Primary Exit Profile
- Provincial exams
- PSAC
- PSLCE exams
- PSLE
- PSU exams
- PTCE exams
- Puja holidays
- QCE exams
- Qingming holiday
- Quadmester
- Quarterly exams
- Quarterly holidays
- Queima das Fitas
- R U OK? Day
- Racial Harmony Day
- Rag week
- Rain holiday
- Ramadan break
- Read Across America
- Read-a-thon
- Red Nose Day
- Refreshers' week
- Ring ceremony
- Ring dance
- Rodeo break
- Rosh Hashanah break
- Russefeiring
- Saber 11
- SACE exams
- Sankranti holidays
- Schulsilvester
- Science Week
- Seachtain na Gaeilge
- SEE
- Selective schools test
- Selectividad
- Self-government day
- Senior banquet
- Senior breakfast
- Senior parking spot painting
- Senior picnic
- Senior sunset
- Senior walk
- September holidays
- Siddur ceremony
- Silver Week
- Sinterklaas celebration
- Skate-a-thon
- Ski trip
- Ski week
- Snake dance
- Songkran break
- Spell-a-thon
- SPM
- Sport Relief
- Sports season
- Spring sing
- Staff appreciation day
- Standard Grades
- State fair day
- Step show
- STPM
- Strike day
- Student showcase
- Studenten
- Studentereksamen
- Studniówka
- Stužková
- Sukkot break
- Summer assignment
- Summer bridge
- Summer reading
- Suneung
- Swim-a-thon
- Systemic tests
- Szalagavató
- Tawjihi
- TCE exams
- Teachers' convention
- Terry Fox Run
- Testovanie 9
- Thanaweya Amma
- Thesis defense
- THPT exam
- TKA
- Total Defence Day
- Toy day
- Toy drive
- Tree planting day
- Trike-a-thon
- Trinity Ball
- Trinity term
- Trinity Week
- TSA
- Tuition due date
- Turnaround day
- Ujian Nasional
- Último Primer Día
- Unassigned day
- Undas break
- Under 8s Day
- UNEB exams
- Uniform sale
- Uniform test
- UPSR
- Valedictory
- Vanhojen tanssit
- Variety show
- VCE exams
- VERA tests
- Veterans Day break
- Vision screening
- WACE exams
- WAEC
- Wai Khru
- Walk to School Day
- Water day
- Wax museum
- Wear It Purple Day
- Week of the Young Child
- Wellness days
- White coat ceremony
- Whitsun holidays
- Winter carnival
- Winter school
- World’s Greatest Shave
- Year-end break
- YKS
- Yom Kippur break
- Young Pioneers induction
- Youth Day holiday
- Youth festival
- Zambia School Certificate exams
- Zhongkao
- ZIMSEC exams
- ZNO
Rare
Genuinely uncommon. A strong pick on any prompt.
- 100th day of school
- A-levels
- ACT
- Activities week
- Add-drop period
- Alumni weekend
- Annual Day
- AP exams
- Art show
- Awards ceremony
- Bake sale
- Band camp
- Benchmark testing
- Block
- Blood drive
- Board exams
- Book Week
- Career day
- Carnival break
- Chinese New Year break
- Christmas fair
- Closing ceremony
- Club fair
- College fair
- College fest
- Community service day
- Concert
- Convocation
- Course selection
- Crazy hair day
- Crazy sock day
- Culture festival
- Diwali break
- Dress down day
- Dress-up day
- Drop deadline
- E-learning day
- Eid holidays
- Fall festival
- Family weekend
- Farewell
- February break
- Field trip
- Fitness testing
- Food drive
- Fun run
- Fundraiser
- Gaokao
- GCSEs
- Grad night
- Graduation rehearsal
- Grandparents Day
- Half day
- Halloween parade
- HSC
- IB exams
- Intersession
- Labor Day break
- Late start
- Make-up day
- Marking period
- Meet the teacher
- Mid-term break
- Mid-year break
- Mocks
- Move-in day
- Moving-up ceremony
- Muck-up day
- Multicultural night
- Nativity play
- O-levels
- Opening ceremony
- Oral exams
- Pajama day
- Pep rally
- Powderpuff
- Practical exams
- Progress reports
- PSAT
- Reading week
- Red Ribbon Week
- Regents
- Registration period
- Resits
- Results day
- Retreat
- Rush week
- Sadie Hawkins dance
- SATs
- School camp
- School dance
- School fete
- School play
- Schoolies
- Senior night
- Senior prank
- Senior skip day
- Senior sunrise
- Senior trip
- Senior week
- Session
- Spelling bee
- Spirit week
- Sports banquet
- Spring fling
- Student council election
- Study leave
- Study week
- Swimming carnival
- Syllabus week
- Talent show
- Teacher Appreciation Week
- Teachers' Day
- Term exams
- Trunk or treat
- Tryouts
- Unit test
- Vaccination day
- Valentine's dance
- Winter formal
- Work experience
- World Book Day
- Yearbook signing
Schooler
Solid, but you’re swimming with the crowd.
- Back to school
- Back-to-school night
- Book fair
- Dead week
- Easter break
- Exam week
- Fall break
- Field day
- First day of school
- Graduation
- Half term
- Homecoming
- Last day of school
- Midterms
- Open house
- Orientation
- Parent-teacher conferences
- Picture day
- Quarter
- Report cards
- Science fair
- Snow day
- State testing
- Summer school
- Teacher workday
- Term
- Thanksgiving break
- Trimester
Plankton
The first thing everyone thinks of.
- Finals
- Prom
- Semester
- Spring break
- Summer break
- Winter break
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