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Is frontloading unfair?

GarIT · 2012-06-13 21:24:35

Is frontloading unfair? When some exams have too many people failing they move marks to the easier parts of questions to boost the overall grades. I think this is unfair on the people that got the more dificult questions right. Should all students be given a % boost rather than frontloading. If the exam is too diffult why…

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#32 14-06-2012 11:56pm

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Togepi wrote: »

They don't mess with the marking for the aural do they?! :eek: I'm certain they never have. I got the last section fully right too, they always give two marks for each question for it, eight marks in total.

woops it was actually the reading comps i was thinking about! like in 2010, 7 marks for some questions while 1 for the harder ones http://examinations.ie/archive/markingschemes/2010/LC010ALP000EV.pdf

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