Monday, June 6, 2011

UNANSWERABLE QUESTION IN AS-LEVEL EXAM

So pupils taking a business studies paper were distraught because information required to produce the answer was missing. Nice one.

It beggars belief that the tossers at the exam board could allow such a thing to happen.  And they have the audacity to say that the question accounted only for a few marks from eighty or so total. They have apologised.  That's nowhere near good enough.

Incredibly they say they have a robust process for ensuring that none of the students are disadvantaged as a result of the exam board mistake. Shame they don't have a robust process for making sure the questions are sensible. In the context of their mistake where's the need for a "robust process"?  Just scrub the question, mark the students on what remains, give yourselves a good smacking, and for heaven's sake try a bit harder next time.  You are supposed to be adults after all. And by the way no bonus and no pay increase for such abysmal performance.

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