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Ticked the wrong box - will they mark as wrong question?

On my English Literature AS question on Pre-1900 Prose, I may have (I'm not too sure) crossed the wrong question, out of the two questions on Frankenstein. The two questions were on freedom & responsibility and crisis. I answered it on freedom & responsibility, and mentioned those two words at least 4 times in my essay. So will they mark it as that question, even if I may have accidentally crossed the box for the question on crisis?

I can't stop worrying about this! :frown:

Reply 1

dh00001

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hm probably not, i imagine they will figure it out. examiners arent out to fail you :smile:

Reply 2

Epitomessence

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dh00001

hm probably not, i imagine they will figure it out. examiners arent out to fail you :smile:

Thank God... because that essay was the one I felt good about, so if I lose marks on that due to answering the wrong question, then a C is certain. :frown:

Oh, and I'm a really pessamistic person, by the way, I've been thinking over the 20 odd ways I must have done something wrong in all of my subjects! I suck! :frown:

I can't frigging stop worrying.

Reply 3

dh00001

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easy to say but worrying wont change anything. best to put it out of your mind and wait until results day

Reply 4

calcium878

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Shouldn't be a problem :smile:

Reply 5

brown

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calcium878

Shouldn't be a problem :smile:

Don't worry! :smile:

Reply 6

dans

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It won't be a problem. And I'm like you too, have thought of a load of things I could have written in my essays etc, ahhh!!

Reply 7

Dionysus

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The examiners are always told to do their best to give you the benefit of the doubt, so I'd be surprised if you are penalised for this.

Reply 8

Toiletpaper8

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Simple answer is NO. The examiner isn't some 10 year old who can't speak English, he'll work out easily which question it is you answered. I did it for my GCSE as well, wrote the wrong question number, but it doesn't matter according to my English teacher. Examiners will just be more unhappy because they have to work it out and you don't want to make the examiner either think or get angry :wink:

Reply 9

yellow96

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I think they'll export the marks to the question you actually did and just mark it like that instead. Don't worry about it.

Reply 10

kellywood_5

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It will be obvious from your answer which question you did and that's the one they'll mark. The question numbers are just there to make it easier for them.

Reply 11

Epitomessence

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Thanks guys... that's at least one worry off my mind then, I'll go back to worrying about my Physics exam and the three-marker I ruined! :biggrin:

Reply 12

figureeight

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Epitomessence

Thanks guys... that's at least one worry off my mind then, I'll go back to worrying about my Physics exam and the three-marker I ruined! :biggrin:

(I'll be honest, I did expect to open up this thread and just type "Well naturally", expecting the question to be "I was doing my exam and crossed the wrong box, but I meant the other box, will they mark me down?") :redface:

Yeah, don't worry about ticking the box, they won't be so anal as to abandon all marks on that point - they're real people too!!

What was that question in the physics paper? I stuffed up lots of big questions too haha, we're all in the same boat :smile:

Reply 13

Epitomessence

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eventhorizon

(I'll be honest, I did expect to open up this thread and just type "Well naturally", expecting the question to be "I was doing my exam and crossed the wrong box, but I meant the other box, will they mark me down?") :redface:

Yeah, don't worry about ticking the box, they won't be so anal as to abandon all marks on that point - they're real people too!!

What was that question in the physics paper? I stuffed up lots of big questions too haha, we're all in the same boat :smile:

Bah, the question asked how you'd carry out an experiment to calculate the acceleration, and I described the ticker-timer method, but only after describing this really stupid method. I don't know if they'll mark what I wrote on the ticker-timer.

Ticked the wrong box - will they mark as wrong question?

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