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If you are given marks you dont deserve, would you/have you told the teacher?


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axlenatore

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If you are given marks you dont deserve in exams, such as incorrect adding up giving you extra marks or something incorrect has been marked correctly, have you/would you honestly tell the teacher and get the mistake corrected?

PS how do i make a poll to see the general view
 
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i havent been in this situation in year 12..but in the past years, when i found that i was given a higher mark than i was meant to, i told the teacher and they fixed it up . . .
i guess a lot of people in this situation would have just taken the mark and been silently happy, but im a bit of a worry-er and i wouldnt have been able to deal with not telling them
 

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axlenatore said:
If you are given marks you dont deserve in exams, such as incorrect adding up giving you extra marks or something incorrect has been marked correctly, have you/would you honestly tell the teacher and get the mistake corrected?
Ah~~

This is the most difficult question that I have ever encountered...

I don't know. It really depends on the circumstance.
 

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no lol
you deserve whatever the teacher gives you... they're the marker and its up to them to get it right
 

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I take it to the teacher and they fix it. I don't think I could keep marks I didn't deserve.
 

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The situation came up in my hsc trial for chemistry, i was given two extra marks in the multiple choice which i didnt deserve, my friend who i sat next to told me to keep the marks as i was four in the form but it didnt feel right so i owned up and scabed those two marks from elsewhere...somehow:rofl:
 

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Yes its happened several times and I've told the teacher and got the marks docked. I see why people keep them but I couldn't do it.
 

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If I deserved to lose mark where the marking was definitely wrongly done, I would go to a teacher and get my marks off but if it was in the short answer question or in the long response question where the marking system is disputable, I wouldn't even bother going and get my marks changed.
 

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Caitlin63 said:
Yes its happened several times and I've told the teacher and got the marks docked. I see why people keep them but I couldn't do it.
I feel exactly the same, but im the only person i know who is honest at my school, everyone else just keeps the marks, someone said "its the teachers fault therefore i deserve the marks anyway"
 

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always have but im afraid i did take an extra mark in an assessment recently
 

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ITT : people taking the moral highground.
 
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tommykins said:
ITT : people taking the moral highground.
Yeah, tbh I don't think many people (myself included) would tell the teacher if they were given a couple of extra marks they weren't supposed to get.
 

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it's different coz it's hsc and every mark counts! if it was like yr10 i MAY have told the teacher but now nah...greedy
 

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SiN3m said:
it's different coz it's hsc and every mark counts! if it was like yr10 i MAY have told the teacher but now nah...greedy
Yeah, true.

There was one question in my maths question where I thought that I could lose one mark in but I didn't tell the teacher about it because I knew that the question was disputable - highly. And I didn't want to risk it. I just thought - my answer is more correct than it is wrong so I will just pass this time .

But there were times when I knew that the I definitely got the question wrong so I fixed my marks.
 

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As a math teacher once said.
"why the bloodyhell would u mention that"
 

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I'd like to think I'd be honest, but in most of my tests these days I need whatever marks I can get. When I was in junior school I used to tell the teachers, but now I'm in the HSC... not so sure.
 

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lol, i told the teacher once and showed it too him (he gave me an extra 2 marks or something that i shouldn't have) and he said to me.. well your lucky then. and he never took the marks off.
 

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Imagine man. liek that one mark could mean a few ranks man like stuff that! stay silent and Enjoy your luck!
 

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