http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/7481715.stm
Review as expletive gets marks An exam board is to review its marking guidance after one of its top examiners gave marks for a script which contained only a two-word sexual expletive. The Times reported that Assessment and Qualifications Alliance chief examiner Peter Buckroyd gave a pupil two marks out of 27 for an English GCSE paper. He is quoted as saying the candidate had demonstrated more skills than one "who doesn't write anything at all". AQA said this was not in line with its guidelines, which would be clarified. The pupil is reported to have written "fuck off", and would have had another mark for adding an exclamation point. Mr Buckroyd is quoted by the Times as saying: "It would be wicked to give it a zero because it does show some very basic skills we are looking for - like conveying some meaning and some spelling."
The Times reported that Assessment and Qualifications Alliance chief examiner Peter Buckroyd gave a pupil two marks out of 27 for an English GCSE paper.
He is quoted as saying the candidate had demonstrated more skills than one "who doesn't write anything at all".
AQA said this was not in line with its guidelines, which would be clarified.
The pupil is reported to have written "fuck off", and would have had another mark for adding an exclamation point.
Mr Buckroyd is quoted by the Times as saying: "It would be wicked to give it a zero because it does show some very basic skills we are looking for - like conveying some meaning and some spelling."
― Mark G, Monday, 30 June 2008 15:10 (seventeen years ago)
'wicked'.
― darraghmac, Monday, 30 June 2008 15:11 (seventeen years ago)
would be nice to know what the question was.
― banriquit, Monday, 30 June 2008 15:14 (seventeen years ago)
Name: ......
― darraghmac, Monday, 30 June 2008 15:15 (seventeen years ago)
Q27: Wayne county and the electric chairs.. "If you don't want to fuck me, baby _______"
― Mark G, Monday, 30 June 2008 15:15 (seventeen years ago)
Finish this well known quote by the British musician J Rotten:
“I'm no one's lap dog, you can't put me on a leash, and that was the attitude of it,____ ___”
― Ned Trifle II, Monday, 30 June 2008 15:17 (seventeen years ago)
jol out
― blueski, Monday, 30 June 2008 15:19 (seventeen years ago)
Nazi punks ____ ____
― Colonel Poo, Monday, 30 June 2008 15:19 (seventeen years ago)
In 'Imagine Me and You' what does the character played by Celia Imrie tell another character to do with the candles?
― Ned Trifle II, Monday, 30 June 2008 15:21 (seventeen years ago)
This story is lacking an approving comment from some sort of Royal Society For The Advancement Of Swearing, to make it more like a Melody Maker 'funny pages' story from the mid-90s
― DJ Mencap, Monday, 30 June 2008 15:46 (seventeen years ago)
Examiner humor - it strikes when least expected!
― Aimless, Monday, 30 June 2008 16:16 (seventeen years ago)
what;s a script?
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Monday, 30 June 2008 17:17 (seventeen years ago)
lol, insolence.
― Bodrick III, Monday, 30 June 2008 18:53 (seventeen years ago)