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Your teacher accidentally marked your incorrect answer, correct? (1 Viewer)
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Keep your mouth shut, take all the marks you can get.
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Many schools have a policy that when you leave the room with your paper, you can't return and get marks changed. Just leave the room with the paper and well, even if you raise it with your teachers, not even they can technically change it. At least this way, you can be honest but keep the mark as well 
But in reality, if you were genuinely ethical about the marks, you would have said something already and not made a thread on BoS. Keep it.
But in reality, if you were genuinely ethical about the marks, you would have said something already and not made a thread on BoS. Keep it.
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So you didn't even definitely lose the mark?
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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.
I suggest just keeping it. Thats just the markers problems, its there responsibility to double check, triple check their marking, so it is ultimately the teachers fault that you got an extra mark. Besides, some teachers thinks its a challenge from a rebel if a student is willing to prove a teachers marking wrong even if it is wrong. So it is best to leave it and also to not get on the teachers bad side, especially after being awarded full marks.
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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.
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Look in the past, i have approached the teacher, and told them that i should have lost a mark - i am too honest. Now i would say don't, because while your reputation will increase, ultimately you're there to kick everyones arse.
Take these pieces of luck while you can, and don't be nicey, because your mates sure wouldn't do the same.
Take these pieces of luck while you can, and don't be nicey, because your mates sure wouldn't do the same.
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Absolutely Alkanes..I am completely agree with you. But still it depends and differ by person to person. If I suppose to do so then I must go to my teacher and ask the correct answer for this question and correct the marks or my answer.