Cheating at Volcano's
As I mentioned in my other post I decided to play mini-dictator than give my geography project the attention it deserved. I wasn't going to take geography next year anyway! I had enough of learning about sheep farming and the highland clearances, I craved more death and destruction that only history can provide. Time slipped on by and while Hitler cried over my wonderful battle plans my project on volcanos had been gathering dust, if I had even started on it that is. No problem thought I and I cheated for the first and only time in my life. The school used the same projects every year and my brother was a year older than me. Great I thinks, I can get his project off the computer, swap the sections about and slap on a better front-cover to boot.

I handed it in a little nervous over what I had done. Each time the teacher mentioned my name during the next few days I thought my time was up though it never came to be. Instead I got a C... a fucking C! My brother got a B for the exact same project from the exact same teacher. Unless there was some miraculous breakthrough in volcanic science in the last year which I had omitted this project should of been a B. And so I had to face my brother make fun of me for "beating" me at the project as sadly if I had told him the truth that he had only beat himself my grandmother would of been the one doing the beating. It only goes to show that teachers either have too much work to handle or at the end of the day just don't care that much over what mark they give. I remain puzzled over which one it is.
(Brydie, Thu 13 Aug 2009, 20:05, 7 replies)

It's neither.
Marking is not an exact science. It all depends on how you are feeling. If the kids are being little shits that day. How hung over you are, and how many pills you did the weekend before. But mostly just how you're feeling. If I'm in a bad mood I'll often give nothing for an answer I'd have given a half mark for if I were feeling chipper.
( The Awful Puppy Bakery is still bored, Thu 13 Aug 2009, 22:41, closed)

Ahhh
Cheers for the clarification good sir!
(Brydie, Thu 13 Aug 2009, 23:01, closed)

So what you are saying is
that all teachers are basically cunts?
(bad_advice QOTW survivor from the first trollocost!, Fri 14 Aug 2009, 3:36, closed)

didn't you know this already?

( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Fri 14 Aug 2009, 10:44, closed)

Another possibility
While the above is true, marks also depend on how the rest of the class does - maybe the rest of his class did worse than yours so it seemed better in relation.

However, it's also possible that by swapping the sections around, as you say you did, you made it worse - every marking scheme I've ever dealt with includes "logical flow" or similar.
(xanthine, Thu 13 Aug 2009, 23:49, closed)

Charisma
At least a full level depends on whether the teacher likes you and thinks you are trying.

Anyway, it sounds like you got at least a full grade more than you deserved....
(danalan Pretty good, for an amateur., Fri 14 Aug 2009, 3:52, closed)

Maybe
you forgot to staple a £5 note to the paper?
(kitescreech still here, Fri 14 Aug 2009, 9:05, closed)