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Are you honest if you are given marks you dont deserve (2 Viewers)

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


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lyounamu

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veloc1ty said:
Yeah well I don't see a few marks making a difference anyway, so I'd prefer to be honest about it.
Few marks is all there is to make a difference.
 

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Didn't tell the teacher. The 2 extra marks turned my 8% margin into a 10% one in maths.

Generally wouldn't tell. It's those little marks that make all the difference.
 

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I think the only time this happened to me I was in Year 8 and me being the wicked hardcore badass wild child that I am told the teacher, she couldn't be bothered to adjust the marks though. Oh the lost innocence, how I almost sort of miss it.
 

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Thats rubbish saying that whatever the teacher gives you is what you deserve. If they made a mistake then you dont deserve it. Taking the marks is easy, but you wouldnt want one of your classmates to do it if it cost you a rank yeah? So why do it to them?
 

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I have told the teacher before but now that I'm in year 12 I don't tell the teacher because marks mean more than just a number now.
 

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In previous years I'd tell the teacher she/he was wrong, as 1/2 marks didn't really matetr then. However, in the HSC year I would not. If they can't count/mark correctly, it is not my problem.
 

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This has only happened to me once. I didn't tell the teacher though, and this was this year....year 12. lol

I was only given an extra mark than what I really should of gotten.
 
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Yes, I told 2 teachers from 2 different subjects that they added me 1 too many in the trial exam..

dont know what good it did and dont know why i did it. i guess i thought that 1 mark less didnt make much of a difference and kept me honest.

im such a loser
 

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Don't tell and don't complain about low marks.. works out on average
 

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yes i was in this position in my half-yearlies for music theory... i lost about 8 marks in total which saw my percentage drop from 82.5% to 60% :(
 

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poisonives said:
yes i was in this position in my half-yearlies for music theory... i lost about 8 marks in total which saw my percentage drop from 82.5% to 60% :(
damn
 

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If it is an essay or something it's harder to tell whether you should have been awarded the marks or not.
If it was multiple choice or something I would defo tell them, particularly because we go over it rigorously and it could potentially get you into a lot of trouble!

However, despite saying that (and not having any marking issues in year 12, although some in previous years that I brought up) if the marks were the disparity between a rank or between a report grade... I don't know if I would have the moral fibre to tell them!
 

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