Music students found to be too dumb to copy the answers on a test

[Dinner]

LONDON (Reuters) - It sounds like every student's dream -- turning over an exam paper and finding the answers on the back.

But that was what happened to 12,000 lucky British teenagers when they sat their GCSE music exam last week.

The OCR (Oxford, Cambridge and RSA) examination board admitted on Thursday that, because of a "printing error," papers sent to schools had answers to questions on the back page.

"All exam papers have a copyright statement dealing with source material on the back page," an OCR spokeswoman said. "This one in particular had more detail than is usual in a music paper."

The exam board said only 5 percent of the overall marks on the paper were possibly affected and students would not have to do a re-sit as most pupils seemed to have been unaware of their good fortune.

"It is unlikely that any of the 12,000 students sitting the examination would have recognized the value of the information ... and subsequently used it," said the spokeswoman, adding there had been just 20 queries from teachers.

"OCR is confident that the procedures put in place will ensure that all candidates get the grades that their hard work deserves."

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[Riesstiu IV]

Maybe they were honest.

[Apocalypse]

Well I guess that disproves the theory that music helps you in school.

VH1 should just cancel Save the Music.

[Wiglaf]

Unbelievable that they are not recalling all of these tests and reissuing it, like any worthwhile American testing company would. Hopefully this exam is as useless as it sounds

[Krill]

It's a GCSE, not like it's worth anything.

[Ming]

Re: Music students found to be too dumb to copy the answers on a test

Originally posted by Oerdin
The exam board said only 5 percent of the overall marks on the paper were possibly affected

"It is unlikely that any of the 12,000 students sitting the examination would have recognized the value of the information ... and subsequently used it," said the spokeswoman,

So which is it... unlikely that any of the students used the data, or 5% figured it out. Sounds like a bunch of "cover your ass" crap to me

adding there had been just 20 queries from teachers.

So I guess the teachers were as dumb as the students

"OCR is confident that the procedures put in place will ensure that all candidates get the grades that their hard work deserves."

Again, what about the 5% they talked about

[Jon Miller]

I wouldn't have used the information/.

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[-Jrabbit]

Originally posted by Riesstiu IV
Maybe they were honest.

Good one.

[Apocalypse]

The thing is....

If you are not cheating, you are not trying. And it is only cheating if you get caught.

[snoopy369]

So you're only trying if you get caught?

[Krill]

Yeah, what's the point in trying if no one knows you are working hard?