h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

I have just heard the story of a group of ordinary people taking their exams right now. They had their English literature exam and they turned up with their copies of the book that they had studied for TWO YEARS. to find that the exam board had, 'Changed their book list for the final exam a few months previously and that they were so sorry.' Consequently, the students could not answewr a single question and consequently have got an exam mark of 0. Explain that away!

that's just out of order! the people on that exam board should be kicked very hard. why would they do that anyway? its just idiotic.

I agree. why they did that i don't know but they did.

Get your facts right!
a)It's not the board that needs a kick but the teacher or the school might. They were told twice that the books had changed and just didn't pay attention.
b) Grades won't be affected. The boards have other ways to award a grade in cases like this.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/merseyside/4606535.stm

Why would they need to study one book for two years, anyway?

I thought they didn't let you take the books in any more...maybe that's just the WJEC. Damm Welsh exam boards...

yeah this was the first year that they didn't allow us to take the books in.

Hardly the first year. I wasn't allowed to take the books in when I took my English literature exams in the 70s.

well they say this is the first time the WJEC have done it because the year before were allowed to take theirs in.

That's right. It's best that way, I think, because you can fit so many useful note into your book you can practically do the exam by copying them down. The questions were very broad this year to make up for it, and I thought the questions were easy.

yeah so did i. all the quotes we really needed and that were relevant anyway were easy to remember more or less word for word so it was quite easy to put them it. at least for the books i was doing (An Inspector Calls and To Kill A Mockingbird)

I did the Tempest and Of Mice and Men. I spent hours the day before learning quotes and then hardly used any of them .

i didn't really revise much for it because we went through the book in lots of detail in the lessons before the exams, and when i say lots of detail i mean enough to send an entire class to sleep time and time again!