Misquoting in Text Response

[SxG]

How strict do the examiners mark you on quotes in exams? I was doing Sky Burial and one of my quotes involved something like "she was fearful what such a forecast could bring", but the actual quote was "she was afraid what she can learn from such a revelation"

The wording's completely different, but I think the meaning remains around the same. I used quite a lot of quotes in both my text respones (Not excessively, use them when I need to), and I'm pretty sure I got the rest of them 100% correct.

Would the examiners mark me down on that one quote? Or would they be lenient and let it slide? If they do mark me down, how much would they do it by

[Ahmad]

They'd let it slide I'd imagine.

[Odette]

Let's hope your examiners are lenient lol ...

[munto]

A family friend is a marker and she said that its is ok to misquote slightly if the general theme of the quote is shown eg. "barely there" used instead of "hardly there" won't make a difference in a big quote. However, that being said if the quote is unfamiliar to the marker they'll look it up maybe or ignore it or accept it. Mind you these markers are highly highly specialised per book.

[SxG]

I dunno. My English teacher once said that it's very bad for you to be inaccurate about what happened in the text. As in if the text says she swims to go to school, and then in the essay you says she drove a car, then you're royally screwed

The thing is this is not a slight misquote, what I did was quite a few different words. But the thing is the meaning remains roughly the same and I haven't gotten any textual events wrong. So I dunno what happens when they mark it and notices the error

Although I really didn't get any other quotes wrong at all so if they're willing to see it as a very odd blemish they might let it slide

[Insane_Emm]

for Im Not Scared i misquote terribly... put a quote in tht had the same general meaning as the real one but i had one word the same, and tht word was 'the' sooo....

but, i got told tht they dont go looking for what u did wrong. apparently they look at what u did right, and mark it upwards from 0%, giving u points, as opposed to giving u 100% straight away and marking u down on what u did wrong.

[SxG]

Through the heat of the moment I also ****in' forgotten to include topic sentences on half of my paragraphs. I dunno whether the English teachers would be impressed by them but I guess it's the clarity of your argument and how clearly and concisely you're bringing across your viewpoint that matters

[Insane_Emm]

ohhh crap i forgot topic sentences as welll.... gaaah.
see, i dunno if this site makes me feel better or worse - reading tht ppl did worse than me but KNOWING tht i missed some fairly OBVIOUS things. grrrrr.

[melanie.dee]

i had a few iffy quoting moments too, its possible i entirely made up a quote haha

but question, what do you meanyou forgot topic sentences? like how is that possible, isnt it just hte first sentence of your paragraphs.. how did you manage to write a paragraph without a first sentence? lol

[SxG]

No, as in my first sentence didn't really definitively state what point I'm making in this paragraph

It was more of a progressive thing where I gradually made my point towards the middle of the paragraph rather than stating it right from the start.

[melanie.dee]

ahh gotcha. hm oh well nothing any of us can do now just have to wait. i  probably should go check in the book to see if those quotes i put do actually exist ha, but it'll probably just upset me further

[Insane_Emm]

i meant like, linking sentences, u know, where ur last sentence in a paragraph shud be related to the first sentence in the following paragraph? gahhh.  i neeeed to get 35+ for english but i doubt i have

[maxleng]

i meant like, linking sentences, u know, where ur last sentence in a paragraph shud be related to the first sentence in the following paragraph? gahhh.  i neeeed to get 35+ for english but i doubt i have

ive heard that you dont need to do that at all..

[Insane_Emm]

i meant like, linking sentences, u know, where ur last sentence in a paragraph shud be related to the first sentence in the following paragraph? gahhh.  i neeeed to get 35+ for english but i doubt i have

ive heard that you dont need to do that at all..

seriously? thts good then *thank god* but we got marked down if we didnt do it on SACs

[ninwa]

How strict do the examiners mark you on quotes in exams? I was doing Sky Burial and one of my quotes involved something like "she was fearful what such a forecast could bring", but the actual quote was "she was afraid what she can learn from such a revelation"

The wording's completely different, but I think the meaning remains around the same. I used quite a lot of quotes in both my text respones (Not excessively, use them when I need to), and I'm pretty sure I got the rest of them 100% correct.

Would the examiners mark me down on that one quote? Or would they be lenient and let it slide? If they do mark me down, how much would they do it by

Just remember, examiners will be reading your essay in about 2 mins max. They'll either 1) miss it altogether, or 2) read it and think it sounded about right because they'll have no time to check it I would imagine.

My teacher actually told me bout an examiner back when he examined for English, who used to flick through the essay in about 30 secs and make his judgment based on that. Bit of a worry ...