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Letter: Exam arithmetic

Published 29 May 2004

From Rosie Prentice

Feedback reported James Joyce being surprised by his old maths paper (8 May). The reason it needed to say that full marks could be obtained by correct solutions to all questions is that in some maths exams, if you write down a correct answer but no working, you will not get the full marks possible for that question. On his paper, a solution with no working was enough to get all the marks.

Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, UK

Issue no. 2449 published 29 May 2004

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