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What are the consequences(if any) of drawing/doodling on GCSE papers? =S

Okay, so I had my mock English language Paper 1 today. For question B1, my short story was about a cheesecake that comes alive and chases someone called Mike through a field. it was very strange. Anyway, after I'd finished the paper and checked it, I thought I'd illustrate the story a bit and I drew a cheesecake with arms and facial features under where I'd written 'The End'. It was quite an amusing drawing, and about the size of a 50p.
After the exam, my friends were like "=O You're gonna get zero marks now!" so I began to worry. D'you think my teachers will care, and would you lose marks for this in an actual GCSE? =/

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Reply 1

-XxX-

No they wont. I used to draw all over my papers. My biology teacher gave me one extra mark once because he likes my drawing :p:

It was a mock anyway

Reply 2

Insomniac_1901

Yes. You'll get disqualified, banned from entering any internal exams in the future and your life will be ruined.

Relax, all it can do is amuse the teacher marking your paper.

Reply 3

tenement_funster

you will die.

it depends how much of an ass your teacher is, mine tore up my history paper because i drew an anime hitler giving head to anime jeremy clarkson

i think it was the Queen logo that narked her though...

Reply 4

Meagz

As long as you don't doodle at the sides where it says 'void if you write here' or whatever.

Reply 5

megadeath999

Well you lost a bit of valuable time that you could have spent rereading a question, so possibly some marks

Reply 6

Christian_j

Any teacher that doesn't give you a mark representative of what you would have got if the drawing were not there should be reported.

When you get it back, if you have any concerns then give it to a different teacher to mark in confidence.

Reply 7

Moa

I drew pornographic cartoons on my AQA R.E. exam and still got an A* so it's okai

Reply 8

Dusty12

Thanks, you've all really reassured me up. =D
I suppose I'm paranoid because in the KS3 exams, I drew a picture of Pythagoras(man with beard that looked like Dumbledore) next to a question about Pythagoras's theorem and my teacher went crazy. He screamed 'NO DOODLING!' at my parents at parent's evening. I think they're a bit frightened of him. =P

Yeah, and I know I should probably have concentrated more on the actual questions, but although I'm sure I made errors, I couldn't find any while re-reading. I never can in exams until we get the paper back. =/

Anyway, thanks all! =D

Reply 9

Mr. Orange

Dusty12

my short story was about a cheesecake that comes alive and chases someone called Mike through a field.

Were you on drugs?

Reply 10

spacepirate-James

No you wont....

But i'm a bit more worried about your story?

Reply 11

w04andia

spacepirate-James

No you wont....

But i'm a bit more worried about your story?

i was thinking this :smile:

Reply 12

Dusty12

Mr. Orange

Were you on drugs?

I bet that's what my English teacher will think. =P

No, surprisingly. I love writing really strange stories in English and Welsh language exams. I never plan them, I just write continually throwing in similes and metaphors when I can.
Last year I wrote about these children being transported to an island and one of them dies in quicksand, but I heavily understated it so the other child just continues to skip along the beach even after his sibling dies.#
Haha, it was less sinister and twisted than it sounds. =P
I got an A for it. And the teacher wrote "Hahaha!" at one point. xD

Reply 13

conroe-killed-the-k8-star

Shouldn't be a problem unless it's something inappropriate to be honest - and that is the rules which the JCQ goes by in the actual GCSE exams.

Reply 14

tailschao

lol you sound awesome.

All I ever did was write out the lyrics to 'Thunder Road' on the back of my GCSE Business Studies paper while bored after finishing it in less than half the allocated time, and I still got an A*. No drawing talent here :frown:

Reply 15

HelenaJayne

i doodled on my mock french AS paper and got yelled at because i got a D and i should have spend my time doing the paper not doodling... but then i still got a D in the real thing anyways, i just suck at french :smile:

Reply 16

qgujxj39

Along with many other TSRians, I drew a cupcake on my GCSE French paper, and I got an A*.

EDIT: http://www.thestudentroom.co.uk/showthread.php?p=12797354&highlight=cupcake#post12797354

Reply 17

unikq

your teacher will mark it and there won't be a problem.

however, DONT do this in the real exam. they can disqualify you for "grafiti".
although in this ******* PC world, you could probably counter by sueing them for something.. -_-
man it's a messed up place we live in

Reply 18

xSkyFire

I didn't draw any pictures but I wrote some bs about exploding knomes in my biology unit 5 paper and ended up getting a U for it lol. It didn't matter since I still got an A overall :p: