Keep your mouth shut, take all the marks you can get.I got full marks for my Maths Advanced Exam (weighting 20%) but I think I was supposed to lose one mark.
Should I keep it? Or tell the truth?
So you didn't even definitely lose the mark?I got full marks for my Maths Advanced Exam (weighting 20%) but I think I was supposed to lose one mark.
Should I keep it? Or tell the truth?
Whilst you may have received full marks there, you have to remember that even getting the correct answer, missing pertinent working out will not always get you full marks.Yeah I didn't lose the mark. Actually, my answer was correct. It's just I missed a bit of working out. So yeah, full marks.
Tell the teacher in future if this happens. Imagine for a while if you studied your ass off and sacrificed a lot in preparation for a test and actually got the marks to come first in the test, yet you got ostensibly beaten by another classmate who kept her/his mouth shut about the teacher marking her/his wrong answer correctly. How would you feel? You would be pissed off, yes? And also, it's not fair, as you deserved to come first, not your classmate. Don't do something that you wouldn't do to yourself. Actually, never do something that you would never do to yourself (in this case, giving marks to your classmate that they didn't deserve). However, if the classmate is an insecure, arrogant, and boastful wanker who rudely demands for your fellow classmates' marks and then calls them 'retards' and gloats her/his results in front them, then keep your gob shut and think of it as karma. However, if your classmate is a good person who you knows works hard and deserves to come first, then tell the truth to the teacher. It isn't a matter about being a goody-goody and getting brownie points from your teacher but a matter about doing the right thing, something which you would like done by your fellow classmate if your situation happened to be that of your classmate. At the end of the day though, if you're in the top three in your class rank, don't worry. The HSC isn't really a big deal. No one gives a crap about your ATAR once you get into uni; it's only a vehicle, a stepping stone towards realising your ambitions in life, whatever they are.I got full marks for my Maths Advanced Exam (weighting 20%) but I think I was supposed to lose one mark.
Should I keep it? Or tell the truth?