Head Honcho Posted 6 August 2006 Posted 6 August 2006 Read this at your peril You have been warned! http://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/Science/Question270516.html
Daggers Posted 6 August 2006 Posted 6 August 2006 Read this at your peril It's simple really ~ take the Israel thread, for example... Algebra is the straight forward answers that people have been posting like -> religion + idiots = bad stuff Whereas your calculus are the other posts differentiating the religions from each other into good and bad ones, and using that to reason why there will be no integration.
Knighton Matt Posted 6 August 2006 Posted 6 August 2006 It's simple really ~ take the Israel thread, for example... Algebra is the straight forward answers that people have been posting like -> religion + idiots = bad stuff Whereas your calculus are the other posts differentiating the religions from each other into good and bad ones, and using that to reason why there will be no integration. :laugh:
Daggers Posted 6 August 2006 Posted 6 August 2006 But as I said in the EXAMS thread ~ in Maths papers x is almost always 3...and if it isn't you always get half marks for saying it is anyway because no one marks papers properly anymore anyway *. Y is a tricky one, because a 'y' is like an 'x' with a bit missing it means that Y is virtually always less than x. The trouble is this could mean it has one of three values -> 2, 1 or minus infinity. The third value is confined to little boys discussing the chances of their mate getting off with the girl they fancy in class. This means that you always have a 50 % chance of getting questions right by answering '2' to questions seeking a value for Y. * It is a little known fact that most exam papers are automatically pulped upon receipt and recycled into exam grade notification papers in order to cut down on costs by exam boards. The grades printed on them are calculated using the spare lottery machines not being used for the draw that Friday.
Head Honcho Posted 6 August 2006 Author Posted 6 August 2006 But as I said in the EXAMS thread ~ in Maths papers x is almost always 3...and if it isn't you always get half marks for saying it is anyway because no one marks papers properly anymore anyway *. Y is a tricky one, because a 'y' is like an 'x' with a bit missing it means that Y is virtually always less than x. The trouble is this could mean it has one of three values -> 2, 1 or minus infinity. The third value is confined to little boys discussing the chances of their mate getting off with the girl they fancy in class. This means that you always have a 50 % chance of getting questions right by answering '2' to questions seeking a value for Y. * It is a little known fact that most exam papers are automatically pulped upon receipt and recycled into exam grade notification papers in order to cut down on costs by exam boards. The grades printed on them are calculated using the spare lottery machines not being used for the draw that Friday. All of a sudden I'm tired and need to be up early
Knighton Matt Posted 6 August 2006 Posted 6 August 2006 Doesn't it take an average of 6 mins to mark an exam paper? No wonder there are numerous mistakes.
cisono Posted 6 August 2006 Posted 6 August 2006 Doesn't it take an average of 6 mins to mark an exam paper? No wonder there are numerous mistakes. It doesn't actually take only 6 minutes to mark a paper but that is all most lecturers have at their disposal. I did some marking last year and I took about 20 minutes per paper (ie a day and a half to mark 24 lab reports). Everyone looked at me as if I were crazy! (they thought I was wasting my time) Come to think of it... considering how much they pay you for it... I probably was!
cisono Posted 6 August 2006 Posted 6 August 2006 But as I said in the EXAMS thread ~ in Maths papers x is almost always 3...and if it isn't you always get half marks for saying it is anyway because no one marks papers properly anymore anyway *. ... My friend claims that you can always pass a multiple choice exam by choosing "c" when in doubt... He got 80% in his last exam (which was annoying because I got 78% and I had a better knowledge of the subject than he did!)
lookwhaticando Posted 7 August 2006 Posted 7 August 2006 My friend claims that you can always pass a multiple choice exam by choosing "c" when in doubt... He got 80% in his last exam (which was annoying because I got 78% and I had a better knowledge of the subject than he did!) That's a failed strategy on many MC exams I do - as there's only an A and B option (A - True, B - False) :laugh: All these theories about picking certain letters is annoying, because it can lead to serious doubt when you see patterns emerging in the answers you give. :pinch:
Daggers Posted 7 August 2006 Posted 7 August 2006 That's a failed strategy on many MC exams I do - as there's only an A and B option (A - True, B - False) :laugh: "That's fine for bivalent problems ~ but we live in a fuzzy logic world with an infinite number of degrees of truth." Writing this on the top of your paper will either get you full marks or zero for being a smart arse
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