Shrikesnest
Small, vicious
Since: May, 2009
Small, vicious
Jun 12th 2012 at 7:18:17 PM
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Cut from the article and moved here:
- In the International Baccalaureate, careful reading of the marking criteria reveals that in most assessment tasks you can get 5/25 simply by writing your name at the top of the page. Regardless, some people manage zeros.
- To expand: simply writing your name and nothing else on the exam or essay will earn you a 1, and from there you can only go up. The only ways to get a 0 is to either leave the paper entirely blank (no name, nothing), or to write it in the wrong language altogether.
- When [[This Troper]] took IB he was told that, for multiple-choice questions, a correct answer was worth +1 while an incorrect was worth -1/4. This meant that, on a 100-question exam, the score range was from -25 to 100.
I've never taken the exam and don't know about it. Could someone weigh in, please?
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Spooner
Since: Sep, 2010
Oct 22nd 2013 at 3:05:46 PM
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Well in a university multiple choice exam where negative marking applied, someone in our class got minus 3 for the test. If applied correctly it actually took marks away from his yearly average and he would have been better off not sitting the exam. So yes, negative marks are possible.
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Just for the terrible pun, could we make "Fate Worse Than F" an alternate title for this article?
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