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Dear Admin, thanks for you support on this site. i have a question bothering me
if a question is offering say 5 marks and the marking scheme is 1 mark per valid point and i happen to list down 7 points of which 2 turn out to be wrong or not well explained thereby earning just 1/2 a mark and the rest of the points being correct. do i still get the full 5 marks? or do they only mark the first 5 points.
the same goes for a question asking for say 5 points to be given, if i instead gave say 7+ points and some turn out wrong but I’ve actually got 5 of then correct, do the wrong ones count against me?
many thanks
They say that if you have 5 good points mixed up with 2 bad, that they will identify and mark the good ones.. The order in which they are presented shouldn’t matter and they say there is no negative marking.
However, I would not advocate a ‘scatter-gun’ approach. You waste time and despite what I say above, it must be hard to ignore bad points on say where 5 are bad and 2 are good. Always best to give 5 points if asked. Of course, by linking your points to marks you can never be sure what the marking scheme is. So for 12 marks is that 12 points at 1 mark, 8 at 1.5 or 6 at 2? Make as many valid points as you can within the time, but describing each fully and well.
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