SATs innit

This was given more marks :

If he wasent doing enthing els heel help his uncle Herry at the funfair during the day. And had stoody at nigh on other thing he did was invent new rides.
“Becoues he invented a lot of new rides he won a prize. He didn’t live with his mum he lived with his wife.”

Than this:

Quickly, it became apparent that Pip was a fantastic rider: a complete natural. But it was his love of horses that led to a tragic accident. An accident that would change his life forever.
“At the age of 7, he was training for a local competition when his horse, Mandy, swerved sideways unexpectedly, throwing Pip on to the ground, paralysed

In the recent Key Stage 3 SATs. Ignoring the fact that they're unequivocally miles apart in standard, unfairly marked, or even the absolute wonder how the Government pays an American company £33million a year to mark the buggers.... Can that first paragraph really be of a passing standard for an 11-year old?!

Well, I couldn't really make out what the first paragraph was going on about...

You can't pass kids for that, it'll just make them think its OK to use bad spelling, bad grammar and not make the effort to improve.


This post will now be quoted and amended for my poor spelling and grammar.

Matt

Damn right - horsey stories about the adventures of "Pip"? Probably nicked it straight out of some Enid Blyton book Plagiarising little git needs to be taught a lesson

Originally Posted by alpinestarhero

You can't pass kids for that; it'll just make them think it is OK to use bad spelling, bad grammar, and not make the effort to improve.

Originally Posted by alpinestarhero

This post will now be quoted and amended for my poor spelling and grammar.

Well you did insist

Originally Posted by MiniMatt

Well you did insist

Thankyou

You have now won the position of Matt's Official PhD Thesis Proof-Reader.

I'll contact you in about 2 and a half years time, then you can begin.

Originally Posted by alpinestarhero

Thankyou

You have now won the position of Matt's Official PhD Thesis Proof-Reader.

I'll contact you in about 2 and a half years time, then you can begin.

********, warked rite intoo that wun didnae I?

Originally Posted by MiniMatt

********, warked rite intoo that wun didnae I?

Yes, yes you did

What were they marked on? When I was at school, they were only able to remove a certain number of marks for spelling/grammer/punctuation. Relevance of the passage has more weight than the content of it.

[Jayneflakes]

Originally Posted by Baph

Relevance of the passage has more weight than the content of it.

Please leave your passage out of this...


You dirty, dirty man!

[21QUEST]

Originally Posted by Baph

What were they marked on? When I was at school, they were only able to remove a certain number of marks for spelling/grammer/punctuation. Relevance of the passage has more weight than the content of it.

Is the content of a passage not tied to it's relevance or indeed, irrelevance


Ben