Freaky Friday

[mothwing]

Want to see something scary?

One of my students failed his last English exam - he got a 6, the worst mark on the German grading system. Very concerned, my boss and I asked him to bring it along, because we wanted to see what on earth could have gone so wrong - he'd been steadily improving, and his last written exam had been a (weakish) 4.

And then we saw the exam paper.
After getting together and poring over the thing together for a couple of minutes, we also have a pretty clear idea about:

1.) why our student failed,
2.) the age of his teacher,
3.) the up-to-dateness of his teaching methods,
4.) how tech-savvy the guy is
5.) which English book is his favourite (I'm thinking this one).

Look: 



Most of the problems the student had resulted from not being able to make sense of the questions - well, obviously, they're seventh graders, and it's 2010, not 1970, for heaven's sake!

Comments

[count-tygath.livejournal.com]

What the heck does "+ pos." mean in a couple of places? - And "no ch. of tense"? - That's where I'm kinda lost.

[mothwing.livejournal.com]

"No change of tense" and "positive", as opposed to the negated sentence they're given.

Yeah.

[count-tygath.livejournal.com]

Yeah. Why write this down clearly if there's also a complicated and almost unrecognizable way of saying it, hmm? - Seriously. :D

[rizardofoz.livejournal.com]

"POS" can also mean "part of speech" - at least in my grammar lexicon. ARGH!