GCSE exam boards to begin docking marks for literacy errors - Polidicks

GCSE all, of your are dum

[QUOTE=Cheryl Cole;26186583]Really, as evidenced by the amount of exclamation marks. You know what I just realised? TH89 didn't rate you[/QUOTE] what are you on about you are so weird

[QUOTE=cheesedelux;26183566]Silly English people :scotland: If the 'very brightest' students in England can't rite rite then I worry for the changes to Scottish education coming in a few years which will make it closer to the English stuff.[/QUOTE] The irony being that Scottish people cannot spell 'write' correctly.

And yet Carol Ann Duffy's poems are allowed. As well as Simon Armitage's, even though pretty much any use of non-standard English by a candidate will get them marked down.

Scotland is a mess and I can't believe so many people (on the internet) think it's actually a good and nice place to live. I think it is one of the worst places to live in Europe, or the worst place. Why are they so unhealthy? Why must they take so many drugs?

I find it annoying to see obnoxiously bad spelling/grammar. Just because you aren't being graded at school while using the internet doesn't mean you can string a sentence in your native language like a 4-year-old.

Good. People need to learn how to write properly.

There's really a problem if plenty of these errors are made.

Fortunatly, I've always been good at spelling and such. Also I've finished my last year of school.

[QUOTE=ChaosUnleash;26187818]This should only be done for incredibly obvious mistakes, I don't think you can really blame a 15 year old for messing up the spelling of 'Homeostasis' when they're about as stressed as possible trying to answer a science question right.[/QUOTE] Implying British high school education is difficult. Hell, I wonder if you even learn about homeostasis there.

I was raised with relatively-good grammar and spelling, although I am nonetheless still a bit off in those kinda areas. At least, I think so.

Doesn't Scotland pay most of the money it earns to England anyways?

Well there goes my GCSE

What, they are only doing this now? That's stupid, why didn't they do it before?

what the fuck this is stupid there already hard as fuck

[QUOTE=dirty harry;26225764]what the fuck this is stupid [b]there[/b] already hard as fuck[/QUOTE] I can see why you're angry

[QUOTE=dirty harry;26225764]what the fuck this is stupid there already hard as fuck[/QUOTE] You could not make it any more obvious. [QUOTE=edja007;26225786]I can see why you're angry[/QUOTE] There's more things than that that are grammatically incorrect.

[QUOTE=Elizer;26180559] But really? Were papers turned in with a bunch of phone/text lingo instead of words?[/QUOTE] You laugh, but I've seen this bullshit. People in my Creative Writing class in High School used to do this until our teacher told them to knock it off.

Shit. My spelling is terrible :saddowns:

[QUOTE=cheesedelux;26183566]Silly English people :scotland: If the 'very brightest' students in England can't rite rite then I worry for the changes to Scottish education coming in a few years which will make it closer to the English stuff.[/QUOTE] Tell me about it. I'm thinking of applying to University in Scotland because our education system is just fucking awful.

[QUOTE=zpiscool;26226217]Tell me about it. I'm thinking of applying to University in Scotland because our education system is just fucking awful.[/QUOTE] Good thing I'm applying to good ol' Heriot-watt

I am the biggest grammar Nazi of them all. When people use the wrong apostrophé I get Führious. But seriously, I do. [I]"Dèjá vu?"[/I] Are you kidding me? [editline]22nd November 2010[/editline] And when people mix hyphen with dash I blow up. [B]How hard is it to press hyphen + alt?![/B] - – Big difference! [editline]22nd November 2010[/editline] Also, the section continuum marker; — Shift + alt + hyphen. Shouldn't be too hard.

[QUOTE=Sir Whoopsalot;26221960]Implying British high school education is difficult. Hell, I wonder if you even learn about homeostasis there.[/QUOTE] Shut up. Homeostatis is glands adrenaline uh fuck

[QUOTE=geogzm;26228039]Shut up. Homeosta[b]t[/b]is is glands adrenaline uh fuck[/QUOTE] :v: Personally, I don't see why anyone would [b]ever[/b] think it's a good idea to allow poor grammar/spelling in [b]any[/b] subject. The people who need the practice with good spelling most are those who have trouble with it, and by not giving them that practice (by enforcing it everywhere), the educational system is only hurting them more. I don't care if you're taking a science test. If you can't spell out "home-ee-oh-stay-sis," then you should get penalized for it. It's not like it's that hard a word to figure out to spell. Same thing goes for mathematics, or any other subject. If you have to write, do it right. (:v:)

[QUOTE=Spetzaz;26227856]I am the biggest grammar Nazi of them all. When people use the wrong apostrophé I get Führious. But seriously, I do. [I]"Dèjá vu?"[/I] Are you kidding me? [editline]22nd November 2010[/editline] And when people mix hyphen with dash I blow up. [B]How hard is it to press hyphen + alt?![/B] - – Big difference! [editline]22nd November 2010[/editline] Also, the section continuum marker; — Shift + alt + hyphen. Shouldn't be too hard.[/QUOTE] Those keybored shortcuts dont ' work.

Language evolves, I hope this mark scheme evolves with it.

That's a real punch in the dick for dyslectic people.

[QUOTE=sparky28000;26231026]That's a real punch in the dick for dyslectic people.[/QUOTE] They'll probably take dyslectic people into account, they always have.

[QUOTE=Sir Whoopsalot;26231046]They'll probably take dyslectic people into account, they always have.[/QUOTE] I don't think they do that here. (The Netherlands) Not sure though have to make mine in March I think.

[QUOTE=Sir Whoopsalot;26221960]Implying British high school education is difficult. Hell, I wonder if you even learn about homeostasis there.[/QUOTE] Yes we do. [editline]22nd November 2010[/editline] Apparently they're getting rid of modular courses. I wasn't aware they were the norm, at my school the only modular GCSE available was maths, for the stupid people.