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Here's UserFriendly's take
<http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=20061112&mode=classic> on the
recent NZQA decision to allow txt-speak in exam answers.

Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:

> Here's UserFriendly's take
> <http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=20061112&mode=classic> on the
> recent NZQA decision to allow txt-speak in exam answers.

NZQA have not allowed it apparantly.

Fran

On Tue, 14 Nov 2006 14:20:28 +1300, Lawrence D'Oliveiro
<_zealand> wrote:

>Here's UserFriendly's take
><http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=20061112&mode=classic> on the
>recent NZQA decision to allow txt-speak in exam answers.

'Letters' in Monday's DomPost says it isn't true. Bali Haque of
the NZQA, in closing a letter, writes:

"At all times the candidates priority should be to ensure that
their answers are clearly understandable to markers.
The best way to do this is to use standard English".

Not as explicit as I would like because he's saying, " Do what
you like, but you will lose marks for it if you get too clever"

I expect that teachers will make it crystal clear that it doesn't
pay to be a smart-arse.
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Brian Dooley

Wellington New Zealand