Exam boards completely screw up at their sole purpose, what else is new.
laredocronk on
> In question one, bullet point four in the question paper refered to one line as theTurtle.pendown (_WIDTH), whereas the coding file showed it as theTurtle.pendown (LOCATION).
Wow….that brings back some memories. Love that they’re still using Logo.
Lammtarra95 on
No testing. No quality control. An unhelpful helpline. No timely communication of the error.
Yep, sounds about right for computer science!
DerkhaDerkha on
>He said: “It required the exams offices to phone up in both instances. Our exams officer was told to communicate the mistakes to the students but not to apply extra time.”
So this is a digital exam which children are doing on a computer, and the only way to notify them of an error is via telephone? Even if their computer has no network access, surely invigilators should be receiving notifications? Crazy.
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Exam boards completely screw up at their sole purpose, what else is new.
> In question one, bullet point four in the question paper refered to one line as theTurtle.pendown (_WIDTH), whereas the coding file showed it as theTurtle.pendown (LOCATION).
Wow….that brings back some memories. Love that they’re still using Logo.
No testing. No quality control. An unhelpful helpline. No timely communication of the error.
Yep, sounds about right for computer science!
>He said: “It required the exams offices to phone up in both instances. Our exams officer was told to communicate the mistakes to the students but not to apply extra time.”
So this is a digital exam which children are doing on a computer, and the only way to notify them of an error is via telephone? Even if their computer has no network access, surely invigilators should be receiving notifications? Crazy.