negative marking

hopalong85

hey. i've just been emailed the correct answers for my intro to politics exam. this was a multiple choice test with negative marking. does anyone know what percentage of a mark is taken away from your overall for every incorrect answer? or is it one for one? i can't find anything about this on moodle. thanks.

figs86

usually correct answer = +1
incorrect answer = - 0.5

Grudaire

Usually depends on how many answers there were eg 4 answers
correct = +1
incorrect -.33

So if ya guess ya (should) get 0!

hopalong85

ok well i hope it's -.5 then because i got 15 wrong out of 40 so if it is i've scraped a pass! thanks for the replies.

monument

There were some interisting results in O'Malley's experiment, I mean exam.

Like how 69% made the classical mistake on how dictatorships remain in power for a long period (ie not thinking co-opting is needed), or how 89% were incorrect about what politics centres on. And with the theocracy question is that 1% real, or a counting error / margin or error?

In the exam, when I read the first choice for the externalities answer (ie "a. exhaust fumes from cars that those not driving must breath") I couldn't help but laugh in the middle of the exam hall.

:Keith:

Don't take my word as gospel (as they say) but nearly positive that he announced during the last lecture that due to several complains he wouldn't be using negative marking for the Introduction to Politics exam. There were fourteen fails in the group and twelve firsts.

EI787

:Keith: wrote: »

Don't take my word as gospel (as they say) but nearly positive that he announced during the last lecture that due to several complains he wouldn't be using negative marking for the Introduction to Politics exam.

Yup that's right. He said he wasn't going to use negative marking (thank God!).

dizzywizlw

Yep no negative marking, which is good because I aced that first qeustion!