[Informatics] A Friday Reflection or two on exam rules

[Roland Gesthuizen]

The extra pages would perhaps be the case study and the cunning addition of
a "this page intentionally left blank" note.

You can read about this here
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intentionally_blank_page

And join the campaign to include more blank pages on the web
http://www.this-page-intentionally-left-blank.org

On 18 November 2016 at 13:11, Mark <mark at vceit.com> wrote:

> First...
>
> Since 2002, The rules on the covers of IPM/ITA/Info exams have all
> forbidden the use of "white out liquid/tape".
> Since 2015, this has been changed to "correction fluid/tape".
> I wonder whether the trademark owners of "WiteOut" had a quiet word with
> VCAA.
>
> Second...
>
> A couple of years ago I was asking what would happen if a student was
> asked for X items, and then provided more than X. Would the marker ignore
> any answer beyond the number asked for?
>
> The general consensus was that markers *would* read on and perhaps give
> credit to superfluous information.
>
> I've just found what caused my initial query to be sparked...
>
> In the IPM exam of *2000*, the rules on the cover of the exam say: *"Choices
> are provided within questions 3,4,11, and 13e. Answer only the state number
> of choices. Any extra answers will not be awarded marks." *
>
> I knew my nagging doubt had to come from *somewhere.*
>
> Note - this rule was *not* repeated in any exam thereafter.
>
> VCAA has not publicly repeated nor repudiated the policy of
> reading/ignoring answers that exceed the quantity requested. It would be
> good if they did.
>
> *Fun fact 1: *In the 2000 IPM exam there was no multiple choice or case
> study, and the exam was worth 60 marks.
>
> *Fun Fact 2*: Multiple choice arrived in 2003.
>
> *Fun Fact 3:* The 2000 IPM exam was 18 pages long. The 2016 Info exam was
> 29 pages long.
>
> OK. I might be stretching the definition of "fun".
>
> Regards,
> Mark
>
>
> --
>
> Mark Kelly
>
> mark at vceit.com
> http://vceit.com
>
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