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No, I believe one question in 2013 (?) was challenged by a number of experts but the mark scheme stood.mystery wrote:Oh dear. Which year and which paper was it with this ridiculous mark scheme then? Can't headteachers comment afterwards and get the marking adjusted?
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And is it right that there was a question where the only acceptable words were screamed or yelled? It seems crazy.
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My favourite bit of the paper I quoted (an iGCSE) concerned how a group of school children could control predators at a freshwater pond they had made. One correct answer was to 'shoot birds, animals etc', and another was to 'prevent access by wild fish'.
I have visions of children armed with shotguns/sub-machine guns taking aim at passing birds and cats - maybe even people - while also manning some kind of checkpoint designed to keep out 'wild' fish. Utterly bizarre, and yes, answers suggested on the official exam board mark scheme.
I have visions of children armed with shotguns/sub-machine guns taking aim at passing birds and cats - maybe even people - while also manning some kind of checkpoint designed to keep out 'wild' fish. Utterly bizarre, and yes, answers suggested on the official exam board mark scheme.
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Let me guess...was the freshwater pond in a conservation area?!
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Is this what they mean by iGCSE science being more rigorous?!
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How do "wild" fish get into a pond I wonder? By flying? Or by spontaneous generation?
Did the mark scheme also ban sensible answers?
Did the mark scheme also ban sensible answers?
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It was in Uganda! We did wonder why that was stipulated - it just said ' a group of children in Uganda decided to make a freshwater pond' - and decided it must be because schoolchildren there go about armed against birds and things.kenyancowgirl wrote:Let me guess...was the freshwater pond in a conservation area?!
We also asked ourselves this. Perhaps there is something about predatory winged Ugandan wild fish on the syllabus which DS1 missed.mystery wrote:How do "wild" fish get into a pond I wonder? By flying? Or by spontaneous generation?
The only sensible answer we could think of was putting a net over the pond and that got you a mark. But the question was worth 2.
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Perhaps the reference to Uganda was to earn the GCSE the i.
I am still pondering over that second mark. Oh dear, that was an unintentional and incredibly poor joke. What is in the pond that we are trying to protect? I suppose the location does change the nature and sheer scale of the predators we might have to keep away. Perhaps a ring of fire around the pond would be a deterrent without having to resort to an armed patrol day and night.
I am still pondering over that second mark. Oh dear, that was an unintentional and incredibly poor joke. What is in the pond that we are trying to protect? I suppose the location does change the nature and sheer scale of the predators we might have to keep away. Perhaps a ring of fire around the pond would be a deterrent without having to resort to an armed patrol day and night.
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I would have thought that some sort of scarer would be more effective than shooting predators. Perhaps a scarecrow or some flapping/shiny material.
Am boggling at the invasive wild fish.
I would laugh if it wasn't all so demented.
Am boggling at the invasive wild fish.
I would laugh if it wasn't all so demented.
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Wild fish? They were blinking livid......