Two marks for swearing!

http://newsvote.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/7481715.stm


you can't make it up!

Review as expletive gets marks


The examiner said the expletive showed some nominal skills


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. [IMG][/img]We do not condone the use of obscenities in scripts

AQA spokeswoman

The pupil is reported to have written "fcuk off", and would have had another mark for adding an exclamation point.

KnifeWRENCH

The pupil is reported to have written "fcuk off", and would have had another mark for adding an exclamation point.

So if he added 25 exclamation points he would have got full marks?!

Wazdakka

I'm confused...

As far as i remember... In the LC you're allowed use bad language aren't you?

Obviously not excessivly, but I thought there was a certain amount of artistic licence given.

Are the brits that stuck up, that somebody writing fcuk you on an exam deserves a story n the bbc website?

Wow..

:rolleyes:

whiskeyman

Wazdakka wrote: »

I'm confused...

As far as i remember... In the LC you're allowed use bad language aren't you?

Obviously not excessivly, but I thought there was a certain amount of artistic licence given.

Are the brits that stuck up, that somebody writing fcuk you on an exam deserves a story n the bbc website?

Wow..

:rolleyes:

Think the point is that 'F&%k Off' was all the student wrote... and gained marks for doing so.

Wazdakka

Wazdakka wrote: »

I'm confused...

As far as i remember... In the LC you're allowed use bad language aren't you?

Obviously not excessivly, but I thought there was a certain amount of artistic licence given.

Are the brits that stuck up, that somebody writing fcuk you on an exam deserves a story n the bbc website?

Wow..

:rolleyes:

It's more to do with the fact that he got two marks (one for each word) plus a bonus mark if he'd added an explanation mark! (correct grammar!)

stovelid

If somebody can get their unmade bed nominated for the Turner Prize, why shouldn't a GCSE student get a few marks for a 'two-word sexual expletive'?

The Walsho

The marks were given for having correct spelling and expressing a feeling, which is what the marking scheme indicated. Two marks from 27 is still a fail, so I'm not sure why such a big deal has been made out of this.

Someone once won a poetry competition with a poem that just consisted of the two words "pay day", that's all.

ART6

Be respectful. The student will one day win the Turner prize for a book that has 500 pages, 499 blank, with the words f**k off on the centre page. It will be classed as a major step forward in avant garde literature.:D

kowloon

What if you were writing about your views on Roddy Doyle?

Fcuknut and arsecandle I say!

randylonghorn

Wazdakka wrote: »

As far as i remember... In the LC you're allowed use bad language aren't you?

Obviously not excessively, but I thought there was a certain amount of artistic licence given.

If the context warrants it in, say, an English piece of creative writing, I think it's ok ...

This is a bit different.

That said, must have been a very slow news day!

Sherifu

Slow news day indeed.

Blisterman

One of the more sensationalist papers here, had the headline
"GCSE students get extra marks for swearing".

No they don't. If he'd written anything, he would have gotten 22 points.

And he only got 7% or something anyway, so, like it matters.

Steve_o

Sherifu wrote: »

Slow news day indeed.

"Yup..."


*BBC bigshots standing in front of a fence with beers*

Piste

Since when was "**** off" a sexual expletive?

I always thought it meant "go away"...

kasm

ART6 wrote: »

Be respectful. The student will one day win the Turner prize for a book that has 500 pages, 499 blank, with the words f**k off on the centre page. It will be classed as a major step forward in avant garde literature.:D

You've ruined the ending of that one for the rest of us.

Blisterman

Piste wrote: »

Since when was "**** off" a sexual expletive?

I always thought it meant "go away"...

Excellent point.
I believe they class the f word as two different swear words depending on its use, when classifying films.

"F off", "f You", "Where is that f'ing dog?" -All fine in 12s movies.

"F me till your nuts explode" - 15's

Adam

ART6 wrote: »

Be respectful. The student will one day win the Turner prize for a book that has 500 pages, 499 blank, with the words f**k off on the centre page. It will be classed as a major step forward in avant garde literature.:D

There's no "middle page" in a 500 page novel...

Mirror

Mirror wrote: »

There's no "middle page" in a 500 page novel...

Strictly speaking you can never get a "middle page" * period!





*unless it's inserted @90 degrees to the other centre pages. :pac:

ART6

Mirror wrote: »

There's no "middle page" in a 500 page novel...

Ohhhh.....F* off:D


*Suitable closing of thread??*