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Pupil gains marks for swearing on an exam question
HAHA... Can't blv this! This is how desperate the education system is getting.. altho the justification of the marks awarded does make me smile 
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London - A student who scribbled an expletive on an English language exam paper was awarded 7.5 percent for accurate spelling and effective communication, The Times newspaper reported on Monday.
The pupil, who wrote "f--- off" after being asked in an English exam to "describe the room you are sitting in", got 2 marks out of 27 and would have got more if he had added some punctuation, chief examiner Peter Buckroyd told The Times.
"It does show some very basic skills we are looking for -- like conveying some meaning and some spelling," said Buckroyd, who works for the Assessment and Qualifications Alliance examinations board. "It shows some nominal skills but no relevance to the task".
"If it had had an exclamation mark it would have got a little bit more because it would have been showing a little bit of skill". (Hahahahhahaha  )
According to The Times, to gain minimum marks in English GSCE papers -- an exam taken by hundreds of thousands of 16-year-olds across England every year -- pupils must demonstrate "some simple sequencing of ideas" and an ability to put "some words in appropriate order".
Pupil gains marks for exam expletive - Yahoo! News UK
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Re: Pupil gains marks for answering "f*ck off" to an exam question
That's hilarious. I wonder what gave him the idea to do that, anyway.
I wonder why it's news, too.
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06-30-2008, 06:31 AM
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That's hilarious. I wonder what gave him the idea to do that, anyway.
I wonder why it's news, too.
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Some of my classmates from high school did that too (I went to a chav school) so that part didn't surprise me, but the fact that they GAVE him marks and the worse part: they are gonna publicise the fact they gave marks jus kinda makes it look like "hey, here's ur reward!" 
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06-30-2008, 06:38 AM
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Whoa. 
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06-30-2008, 06:48 AM
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Re: Pupil gains marks for answering "f*ck off" to an exam question
lol ah exams.
a friend of mine was aksed to describe the breathing process in a biology exam.
she put all this stuff about not being able to breath and correlating it with depression and thoughts of suicide. so emo |
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This does nothing but highlight the current sorry state of the British education system.
No wonder almost EVERYONE passes their GCSEs. 
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This does nothing but highlight the current sorry state of the British education system.
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Oooh, fellow educationist in the house.. 
You reminded me I forgot to mention the term DUMBING DOWN in my OP.. thanx
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That is so weird.
Maybe I'll get marks for inventing my own theories in my biology exam. 
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That is so weird.
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I think coz it was en English exam they were forced to hand it out for the "expression" of it all
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I've always wondered why soooooooooooooooooooooooo many people get A star grades in England, as compared to the equivalent in Scotland. This explains it a little.
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And I thought our education system was crappy.
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Wait, did you just say crappy?!
 CONGRATULATIONS, YOU HAVE JUST BEEN AWARDED A
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But he didn't follow the instructions to begin with... dumb graders.
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Good job he didn't use red biro
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And I thought our education system was crappy.
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Not everyone gets As in their GCSEs.And the pass boundary is C, so of course most people get a GCSE. A levels on the other hand..
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