Comments on: What do you do?

By: cat

cat — Thu, 11 May 2006 12:09:21 +0000

You are marked on working- and you didn’t walk out so I suswpect you have done better than you think!

By: Pete

Pete — Wed, 10 May 2006 14:47:34 +0000

ouch.

Like Katherine says though, you’re marked on your working. If it’s sound with one small mistake, I guess you have to trust the guy marking it to spot the one point it went wrong rather than marking the whole lot wrong.

“I know the above is wrong” sounds like “I know I’ve wasted my time”; however “I know most of the above is right but I’ve run out of time to find the erroneous step” at least tells the marker to check that your analysis is correct…

Bad luck, you’ll do better in the next exams.

: P

By: Alex

Alex — Wed, 10 May 2006 10:58:45 +0000

Mmh, probably.

Unless they think you think it’s the right answer. It doesn’t really feel right scrawling a little note like ‘I know the above is wrong’. Smacks of desperation.

By: ktm

ktm — Wed, 10 May 2006 09:41:39 +0000

File under life, shrug your shoulders and bear in mind that if your path to the answer is sound then they’ll give you most of the marks anyway…