Quite rightly, we all like to be able to laugh at the exam compilers whenever the rare chance eventuates. Today we can share a particularly enjoyable example of an exam-board failure, thanks to
The Age.
This is not the correct image, grabbed by a VCAA drone off the interwebz rather than sourced properly.
"THE VCE exam body has been left red faced after a doctored artwork depicting a huge robot helping socialist revolutionaries during the Russian Revolution was accidentally included in this year’s year 12 history exam taken by 5700 students.
This is the correct image.
"Storming the Winter palace on 25th October 1917 by Nikolai Kochergin, which depicts events during the October Revolution, which was instrumental in the larger Russian Revolution of 1917.
But when students opened their exam this morning they found an altered version of the work with what appear to be a large "BattleTech Marauder" robot aiding the rising revolutionaries in the background.
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"A spokesman for the Victorian Curriculum and Assessment Authority (VCAA) said the image was 'sourced and acknowledged by the VCAA as coming from the Internet'.
'The image has been altered but the alteration of the image won’t impact on the students’ capacity to answer the examination question,' he said.
'The VCAA will monitor students' answers to ensure that any student who has been distracted by the image will not be disadvantaged.'
This is NOT history. It is 'A BattleTech Marauder' - you know, made up.
"It is the second year running that the Victorian Curriculum and Assessment Authority has been embarrassed by problems in its end of year exam papers.
Last year popular columnist Helen Razer accused the VCE exam body of plagiarism and breach of copyright after the English exam featured on tattoos by the Melbourne writer without her permission or acknowledging she was the author."
Tut tut tut... Hey kids, don't lift stuff from random websites for your work, and use 'impact' sparingly. Just like the VCAA.
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