Unacceptable errors at A-level exams

• Guest 696

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  22 June 2011     02:24111240
  #1      
  The Department for Education has discovered another set of errors in the Summer A-levels and GCSE exam papers.
  
  They are furious and have launched an inquiry, hinting that there may be job losses, although it's not quite clear if these will be the responsible examiners or the pupils once they find work
  
  Among the subjects badly hit this time round are physics, maths and Latin.
  
  One offending question found was: what to add to the Roman numeral 9 to make it a 6?
  The answer that all pupils gave was: S
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• Guest 703

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  22 June 2011     08:41111257
  #2      
  IX + (-III) = VI
  
  Learned that when I was about XII
• Guest 696

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  22 June 2011     16:06111326
  #3      
  S+IX =SIX!
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  Kent First http://youtu.be/04F3mAP3fV4 Keep banging on http://youtu.be/qYCU_SKmkGQ
• howard mcsweeney1

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  22 June 2011     16:13111330
  #4      
  those kids are smarter than given credit for alex, excellent example of creative thinking.
• Guest 698

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  22 June 2011     16:16111331
  #5      
  I missed that one, but then I am LVIII.
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• Guest 703

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  22 June 2011     17:27111343
  #6      
  S+IX=SIX= 8½ in English pounds!
  
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_numerals#Fractions
• howard mcsweeney1

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  22 June 2011     17:37111345
  #7      
  tsk tsk ray, english pounds indeed.
  
  we are a modern european metric forum nowadays, at least that is what brian told me
• Brian Dixon

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  22 June 2011     19:58111360
  #8      
  actuly its 8.75 euros.