maandag 6 juni 2011

exam errors

This week I read an article on the BBC site that irritated me. This article was about the AS-level exams and that it had an error in it. Apparently the AQA exam board made a mistake by forgetting essential information. This piece of information was needed to make the calculation that would give the answer to how much the profits of a chocolate company were.  A business teacher contacted the BBC to tell about how his students struggled with this question and that they did not have enough time to finish the other questions. The AQA exam board says that they are sorry for the mistake they made and that the students will not be disadvantaged. The question was only worth 3 points out of 80.

Why did this article irritate me when I read this? Well let me tell you: Every year when students take their exams there is an error made in one of the exams. Everybody expects perfectness from the students but it seems as if we don’t expect perfectness form the AQA exam board anymore. Because of such a mistake a lot of students get stuck at the question that contains the mistake and have barely enough time to finish their exam. How can you make the same mistake almost every year? If one of the students would make the same mistake every year they would be kicked out of school. I ask you: how is this fair?

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