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Monday, July 7, 2008
Marks for swearing
A British student who scribbled an expletive on an English language exam paper has been awarded 7.5 per cent for accurate spelling and effective communication.
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".
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