@WeeWitch/CHCB
It's the same here. We're not really allowed to fail students, and especially not to deduct marks for poor spelling or grammar.

Now a high proportion of the class I taught this year were from overseas, and English was not necessarily their first language, so I am prepared to make allowances. But for the British students, I would expect the answers to be at least comprehensible, if not perfectly written.

Some of them would make text speak look like good English.
( K2k6 has a proper job these days, Wed 2 Apr 2008, 15:35, Reply)