Exam Student’s Reward For Writing “F**k Off”
A pupil who wrote f**k off on his GCSE English paper was given two marks out of 27. Examiners gave him the marks because he spelt the obscenity correctly and managed to convey a meaning. A senior examiner marked the paper and the government’s examinations regulator refused to condemn his approach. “It would be wicked to give it zero, because it does show some very basic skills we are looking for – like conveying some meaning and and some spelling,” examiner Peter Buckroyd told the Times. “If it had had an exclamation mark it would got a little bit more because it would have been showing a little of skill.” Mr Buckroyd even said he told trainee examiners to give marks to pupils who only scrawled obscenities on their exam papers. The phrase had been written in response to a question asking: “Describe the room you’re sitting in.” But the largest of the three exam boards, AQA, said expletives in a script would be either disregarded or sanctioned.
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