New Zealand Allowed 1337 Speak on Exams!

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New Zealand Allowed 1337 Speak on Exams!

Post by leDoOd » Sun Nov 12, 2006 2:16 pm

http://slashdot.org/articles/06/11/11/1356212.shtml
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"New Zealand's Qualification Authority (which sets testing standards for the public schools) is confident that those grading papers will understand the meaning of students' responses, even if they use phone/IM-style text-speak. From the article: 'credit will be given if the answer "clearly shows the required understanding," even if it contains text-speak.' Many teachers are not amused, and critics say that the move will devalue NZ's equivalent of a high school diploma."
Not to mention that graders will need to be restrained so they don't gouge their own eyes out. While in the medium of text messages, some shorthand might be in order, but I didn't realize that world paper, pencil, and ink shortages were so severe so that text-speak is necessary everywhere.

So I could write "And tehn macbeth wuz killed by macduf ROFLOLOLOL" and get full credit! :lol:

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Post by NickD » Sun Nov 12, 2006 4:48 pm

:lol: wow.. special.

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Post by Renegade_Turner » Sun Nov 12, 2006 4:59 pm

That is both pathetic and disgusting.

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Post by hdlsa » Sun Nov 12, 2006 10:24 pm

Why the hell would they do this?

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Post by pyros soul » Sun Nov 12, 2006 11:56 pm

Oh my GOD!

I wanna move to ZN!!

That would be fun!

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Post by Colicedus » Mon Nov 13, 2006 12:06 am

hdlsa wrote:Why the hell would they do this?
Cuz We KIWIZ r Stupiz, lolollolol1!1111!!!!!!
JK, how ever i am from New Zealand so i can Joke.

our Education system is failing over here. We Desperately Need Qualified people.

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Post by Crill3 » Mon Nov 13, 2006 5:06 am

Weird :lol:

BTW, it's not 1337speak like the title says.

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Post by leDoOd » Mon Nov 13, 2006 7:15 am

Yeah... but... who says "text speak"? :roll:

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Post by pyros soul » Mon Nov 13, 2006 7:11 pm

leDoOd wrote:Yeah... but... who says "text speak"? :roll:

Yeah, and i made a avatar to fit the situation

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Post by leDoOd » Mon Nov 13, 2006 8:45 pm

Get it right, man. No one, not even 1337 sp34kers say ROTFL, it's just ROFL.

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Post by NickD » Mon Nov 13, 2006 9:56 pm

:lol: Actually, he's right. Like, we dont say USOA we say USA :P .

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Post by Lugaruman100 » Mon Nov 13, 2006 10:49 pm

I wonder how many people there say Wellington is teh roxx0rs?

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Post by lokijki » Tue Nov 14, 2006 1:42 am

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l33t is weird. ^^

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Post by Colicedus » Tue Nov 14, 2006 2:19 am

F*ck that Crazy S*it :roll:

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Post by BunnyWithStick » Tue Nov 14, 2006 2:45 am

A bit crazy, but hooray for NZ! :lol:

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