Errors in exam papers

At uni, any errors have either been pointed out before hand and told to skip over question 12 for example and the marks simply adjusted.

Or if the error was discovered after the test was taken, then we get a pleasent email saying there was an error, and everyone who sat the the test gets the marks for that question anyway.

Odd system i know, seems to not cause any major drama though
 
Useless exam boards being useless as usual... The only explanation I can give is that all the workers fired from the old Rover factories are now employed by the exam boards to write the papers.

I think they should get rid of this multiple exam board malarkey - It would be a better system as resources would be concentrated onto one set of papers (so fees could be a bit lower, while still allowing extra money to employ more/better people to write and check each paper). It would also mean that everyone with a certain A-level would have covered the same syllabus. As it stands, this is not the case (e.g. in chemistry, some courses cover Azo-dyes, others don't - it's not a massive change, but still enough to be inconvenient if a university tutor assumes that students have all covered the topic, so skips over it). It seems like a rather unnecessary way of complicating a system for no real benefit imo (as this episode shows, it's not like the 'competition' has motivated the boards to be better than each other).
 
lrlcr said:
It's the problem with exams getting easier, now there aren't enough clever people left to actually write the exams.




I don't actually think exams are getting easier or harder, and the above is to be taken entirely tongue in cheek
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I however do think exams are getting a lot easier, these spoon fed students should stop crying. SO they got the paper wrong, it simply means they'll bring the bar down even further even the retard with a negative IQ will get an A*
 
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