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Students get higher marks for writing 'F*ck off' on exams

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Write ‘f*ck off’ on a GCSE paper and you’ll get 7.5%. Add an exclamation mark and it’ll go up to 11%.

One pupil who wrote 'f*ck off' was given marks for accurate spelling and conveying a meaning successfully.

His paper was marked by Peter Buckroyd, a chief examiner who has instructed fellow examiners to mark in the same way. He told trainee examiners recently to adhere strictly to the mark scheme, to the extent that pupils who wrote only expletives on their papers should be awarded points.

Hey, if you know how to spell 'f*ck off' and use it correctly in a sentence, you might as well use it to your advantage, right?
abbym0308

43 responses // Students get higher marks for writing 'F*ck off' on exams

  • That's f***ing brilliant!
    Scott_Bromley
  • In high school my teacher, graded the national Advanced Placement exams. He said that the grading process was very rigid, 8 hour shifts, you couldn't talk, and you had a quota of papers to grade in an hour, like five minutes per test. He always liked when kids wrote stuff like "this sucks." He would use those papers as as a mini-break because he knew they would receive zeros.
    joshuaheller
  • I wish I wasn't such a nerd an actually wrote stuff like this on my papers. I would love to go back and do this again. I couldn't imagine marking these exams. Just think, we each tear our hair out having to write our own, but the markers have to read ALL of them.
    abbym0308
  • watch this comment being used here, here and here
    i love using bad words. You can say the word fuck and it can be translated many different ways!
    JLAZ
    1 response to this
  • lol.. that is funny.... what is gcse anyway?
    kewal91
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  • Ever since high school, I always wanted to write "fuck it, I don't know what the hell I'm talking about and you probably aren't paying attention anymore" in the middle of an essay just to see what would happen. But, I was never bold enough to do it. I have a year and a half of college to wade through. Maybe I'll get around to it and get bonus points for being creative.
    Nyx
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  • why is fuck different to any other word in the english language? oh yeh, someone said they didnt like it :S

    and how the hell does the asterix make it less offensive? fair play, people confuse the shit out of me.

    Fuck is just the same as any other noun/verb/proverb/adjective etc etc
    Joe_Leo
  • to kewal 91: GCSE is the general certificate of secondary education. Its like one big final exam in the UK. hope that answered your question:)
    mpdab8
  • I grew up on a ranch, worked on the docks, joined the Navy, then went to work for a correctional facility. This is not an excuse for using the language that offends others. When your with your buddies and having a couple of beers, it's not that bad. Make sure there aren't any ladies or children around though. A very wise women (grand mother) once told me " Cuss words are what ignorant people use in place of the correct ones". Is this the best our educational system has to offer. We are in trouble.
    bluestranger
  • In 9th grade I wrote an FCAT paper on the negative effects of FCAT on Florida's schools. ... I got an A.
    sunkisthappy
    2 responses to this
  • Sheesh.
    PoisonTheMonkey
  • wow, what low standards we are sinking to!! my grandmother the English professor is turning over in her grave ...
    pstuart
  • At uni I got told off for writing "fuck!" in a translation. And I'm still convinced it was the best possible option to convey the original writer's message.
    saverio
  • hilarious and at the same time it only makes sense. these students are showing an understanding of spelling and grammer so they have proved that they learned exactly what the school is trying to teach them.
    torybart
  • I've never used that word and never shall. I refuse to lower my English standards for that word and be like everyone else. I wouldn't care if it would give me an A on the paper. Wouldn't do it.
    J_Jammer
    9 responses to this
  • Freedom Of Speech at it's best!
    Audiogeek
  • FREEDOM OF SPEECH!!! that is fare.
    currentkid
  • Fuck off!
    dearmat23
  • I'm having trouble seeing why someone received a score for using the words 'Fuck off'. The vulgarity of the words is not an issue to me, but rather it is how using these words reflects someone's skill in English. Actually, you can teach a foreigner to say 'Fuck off', they may not know what it means till someone gets angry with them and informs them. The reason why I am not concerned with the vulgarity is because you can convey the same meaning by merely saying 'Go away'. 'Fuck off' is just a flashy way to say it.
    AutifK
  • That sucks so much. I feel for the teachers, but come on. There are students who bled sweat to study for those tests! And you're going to give partial points for being a slacker?
    Elligirl
  • I have no qualms with the F word but this is stupid and ridiculous.
    jay_ct
  • watch this comment being used here, here, here, here, here, and here
    Sometimes there is just no better word.
    mookster_07
  • oh not fair! For us old farts long past exams, we probably would have been failed!
    barkway
  • see thats why they say dont curse in school, they dont wanna give us the points.
    big_bad_wolf
  • Maybe they just got an F grade?
    dearmat23
  • i'll keep that in mind :)
    ThatGirlBrittni
  • Wow, if I knew that was an option...

    Here's a sentence for Mr. Buckroyd:

    F**k you, our students need help.
    CicatrizJCP
  • There are a place and a time to us this word and is so appropiate. What gets me is the use of this wrd to descibe everything in sight. F...king this and f...king that. You want to jump in and remind them of the other thousand words in the english language to use. It's like they got stuck in their boyhood, when boys would belt out cuss words and they giggled til they dropped.
    cibalin
  • The kid got 2/27, not exactly a passing grade, so why the fuss?
    observer2121

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