[Year 12 SofDev] Odd exam instruction!

[Reilly, Lorraine M]

Hi

One of the examiners once told me that if a student contradicts further into an answer their first answer they also get NO marks.

Do you know how much the two exams were marked down?
Hope you had a nice holiday
Lorraine


-----Original Message-----
From: sofdev-bounces at edulists.com.au on behalf of Mark Kelly
Sent: Sun 1/27/2008 1:17 PM
To: Year 12 Software Development Teachers' Mailing List
Subject: [Year 12 SofDev] Odd exam instruction!
 
Browsing through the instructions for Section A of the 2007 SD exam (as 
one does), I realised the terribly draconian implication of an 
instruction lurking therein:

"No marks will be given if more than one answer is completed for any 
question."

Taken literally, that means if a student gives more than one answer for 
ANY of the 20 questions, they get no marks at all!

Probably less traumatic might be:

"No mark will be given if more than one answer is completed for a question."

hehehehe

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