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Well done! I can't believe I've finished Year 11, I keep feeling like I need to do work! Yes, yesterday was rather a walk-over in the cricket, but perhaps the Poms just need to get into the swing a bit, after all, we creamed them in the first test last time, and look what they came up with in return!

Posted by Hannah at Fri Nov 24 15:25:13 2006

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Well. Congratulations. Apparently the Chem exam was a complete <bad thing> and the cheif examiner wants to change it to be internals only, due to an off-syllabus question worth more than half a criteria, or something.

But anyway. The cricket does look interesting. 560/8, with Lee & Clarke having a run rate of 8. Boring summer, yes. :D

Posted by Jack at Fri Nov 24 16:18:30 2006

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On the subject of Chem, I will point out that a similar thing happened in Maths Specialised in 2004.  And that being the case, "internals only" will not happen.

That said, the exam was riddled with typoes, and key pieces of data was not printed correctly.  Out chem teacher was called into the exam, and read out more than 20 pieces of Errata... Not a very good job IMO.

Given the MSP precedent, scaling will probably happen.  Yay!

Posted by Chris at Fri Nov 24 16:39:37 2006

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Well I read in the Mercury this morning that a quarter of the questions were messed up, so they are going to mark the other three-quarters that were ok, and then factor in internals, but the guy interviewed in the article said it was going to be a very complicated process. Bummer for them!!!

Posted by Hannah at Sat Nov 25 15:19:43 2006

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Yeah... I read that... but it's nothing different to what they do with every other exam...

And they're going to mark every question, including the error-filled ones... A few '!' symbols never hurt anyone -- the actual questions themselves weren't buggered.

It should be all OK in the end.

Posted by Chris at Sat Nov 25 15:44:50 2006

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