# @ Monday, May 16, 2005 9:45 PM

I have graded the AP CS exam (college credit for high school students if they pass) where students who did not know what code to write drew pictures or write funny explainations of why they didn't know the answer. Much better than writing code that has no relationship to the question in my opinion.

AlfredTwo

# @ Tuesday, May 17, 2005 5:51 PM

0% chance of getting marks for a blank answer. 0.1% chance of getting marks for an educated guess. Mathematically proven to be better than nothing!

Pandilex

# @ Tuesday, May 17, 2005 6:10 PM

A certain lecturer said that you can make something up, and if it's based on what the answer was MEANT to be, and had relevance, a lot of the marks could be got on that paper... I hope! As Pandilex says though, something is (possibly) better than nothing!

Bobster

# @ Tuesday, May 17, 2005 8:11 PM

Hmmm. Perhaps anything is better than nothing. But it still irks me when I ask for something and the answer isn't that thing. There is an implication that I might be daft enough to award marks for something which we both know is not the right answer....

RobMiles

# @ Thursday, May 19, 2005 3:39 AM

What's your opinion on stuff like this: Last exam I had, some of the questions asked for some very bizarre examples of stuff. I knew the topic it was talking about very well, so I tried my best to answer the question, then I wrote "I'm not entirely clear what you mean by 'Do this diagram using this'" and then wrote as much as I could about the subject. I demonstrated my knowledge of the subject the question revolved around, but it wasn't technically exactly in the format the question demanded. Would you give marks for this? Or is it simply not permissible despite proving an in depth knowledge of the subject in question?

Pandilex

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