Exam officials are worried that too many pupils sitting Higher English are working from the same crib sheet.
Exam officials are worried that too many pupils sitting Higher English are working from the same crib sheet.
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Tom Shields
The Scottish Qualifications Authority says schools encourage individual examinees to produce answers which are remarkably similar and more than redolent of the Blue Peter here's-one-I wrote-earlier school of penmanship.
Weans doing Standard grades (that's O levels in new money) are even given template essays to work from. The technical term for this is "scaffolding". Little wonder there is a "disappointing sameness" in the exam offerings. Parents protest about stunted creativity. When I was a lad with ink-stained fingers, there is no way I would have allowed a teacher to tell me what to write. An essay – or composition as we called it –was a joy and a delight. I would have written one every day if the school asked me.
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Exam officials are worried that too many pupils sitting Higher English are working from the same crib sheet.
The Scottish Qualifications Authority says schools encourage individual examinees to produce answers which are remarkably similar and more than redolent of the Blue Peter here's-one-I wrote-earlier school of penmanship.
Weans doing Standard grades (that's O levels in new money) are even given template essays to work from. The technical term for this is "scaffolding". Little wonder there is a "disappointing sameness" in the exam offerings. Parents protest about stunted creativity. When I was a lad with ink-stained fingers, there is no way I would have allowed a teacher to tell me what to write. An essay – or composition as we called it –was a joy and a delight. I would have written one every day if the school asked me.
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