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lshak

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Do VCAA take marks off for this?
« on: June 16, 2011, 10:13:00 pm »
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So yesterday in my environmental science exam for a couple of the short answer questions I ran out of room and wrote a bit under the given lines, I know that's probably bad haha but do you lose marks?  :-\

My friend told me the examiners just cut it off and mark you on what's on the actual lines?

Curse my big handwriting lol  :tickedoff:
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Re: Do VCAA take marks off for this?
« Reply #1 on: June 16, 2011, 10:18:12 pm »
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No.  This is not a problem.  I rarely find myself able to stick to the allocated number of lines/space that I am supposed to answer in.  :)
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Re: Do VCAA take marks off for this?
« Reply #2 on: June 16, 2011, 10:26:05 pm »
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Nah as long as you don't go outside the border you should be fine (Y)
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Re: Do VCAA take marks off for this?
« Reply #3 on: June 16, 2011, 10:57:22 pm »
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I had the same problem in legal studies last year. I decided that examiners would find it more annoying to turn to the extra space section in order to read an extra two or three lines than reading a couple of slanty sentences.
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Re: Do VCAA take marks off for this?
« Reply #4 on: June 17, 2011, 12:12:03 am »
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They should just give us more lines...
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Re: Do VCAA take marks off for this?
« Reply #5 on: June 17, 2011, 11:06:05 pm »
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Oh really thats good then thanks :D
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