Thursday, January 20, 2005

Marking hell

OK, so marking is one of the most boring parts of my job. It's only fun when either entertaining solutions appear (thanks for the effort in week7RSVP, everyone!) or when entertainingly awful solutions are submitted.

The winner this week goes to the student who is already retaking the module (3rd and final attempt, most likely.) Due to a possibly terminal case of laziness he simply took a copy of his week 7 exercise from last year, renamed the file and submitted it for this year. Using the correct filename suggests that he read at least the 1st few lines of the assignment this time around. However since last year's and this year's exercises are completely different I guess he was fatigued by the effort of reading a few sentences and didn't go any further ...

Thanks for the laugh, whoever you are (I mark semi-anonymously with ID numbers only.) Needless to say you're failing again this year, but you're not surprised by that, are you?

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