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Eruresto wrote:Well, if your handwriting's that bad, you could apply for specialness and do your exams on a computer etc!

Or have an amanuensis (what a great word - don't often get the chance to use it). Not to be confused with enuresis ...

There's a writer called Amanuensis!. I never understood the name until now.
It's not that bad, as in, bad enough to warrant special measures but it is pretty damn awful.

Go on, practice! I don't want my lovely Induction week cancelled due to you killing someone in the wood!.

Don't wash your hands of History. It's really really fun, even with Elizabeth Garrett Anderson who's name is honestly too long to write out over and over again.
Indeed. Latin and English. I'll see you there, If we're put in the same class that is.

English ='d my only 'A' at A-level! even got full marks in 1 exam

cj wrote:

Eruresto wrote:Well, if your handwriting's that bad, you could apply for specialness and do your exams on a computer etc!

Or have an amanuensis (what a great word - don't often get the chance to use it). Not to be confused with enuresis ...

..that`s only if you CAN`T write - injured hand etc.

Being an amanuensis is one of the most difficult things to do as a teacher. I had to do it for a Maths GCSE for a girl who had just broken her arm. You have to keep a completely blank face as she tells you to do the wrong thing as the answer.

It can't be easy for the candidate either!

Happened this year to a guy on my year - he sprained his wrist and TSG had to scribe his latin exam for him etc. Is is true you have to dictate everything, including full stops etc?

Edit: I am so not going to kill anyone*! You should have seen me yesterday - it was terrific!

*Deliberately - though Mark's scepticness is making me ill-disposed to him...lol.

Eruresto wrote:Happened this year to a guy on my year - he sprained his wrist and TSG had to scribe his latin exam for him etc. Is is true you have to dictate everything, including full stops etc?

Yes - must be sheer hell for both the scribe and the candidiate in things like maths when you often need to work things out on paper! Especially when you can be awarded marks for correct workings even if the answer is wrong.

Ow!!!!

Could be worse though... imagine art!

ben ashton wrote:English ='d my only 'A' at A-level! even got full marks in 1 exam

How do you get full marks in English?

englishangel wrote:

ben ashton wrote:English ='d my only 'A' at A-level! even got full marks in 1 exam

How do you get full marks in English?

I got full marks in a piece of English GCSE coursework. Using some information that was given, you had to incorporate it into a holiday postcard to a friend. It was the easiest piece of work I have ever seen.

I managed to get full marks in an English Coursework, but then I did submit about 30k words for one piece (creative)!

It wasn't my fault: Dr. Stu said "just give me your best piece of writing", and because I'm big into writing fanfiction, I did. All 21 pages of it!

Kinda messed up the printer cartridge though...

gemmygemmerson wrote:very very pedantic. Laceholes! At my school we aren't even allowed lace up shoes.

What do you have instead?

cj wrote:You'll be doing a lot of walking so something comfortable and waterproof bearing in mind the weather for the Autumn/Christmas term. Our uniform lists used to state the number of laceholes permitted for girls shoes (can't remember!!). Boys were allowed more. Pedantic, or wot?

Cath, we were still being issued shoes by the Wardrobe in those days (although a few DM's were creeping in).

Ahh the coursework.

My daughter had maximum marks on all her GCSE coursework and when she was showing littlies and their parents round at open evening the following year they went into the English Department to a table labelled 'GCSE coursework' and the littly said "Oh look this was written by you, and this, and this etc etc.".

She has also got max marks on 3 of her 4 A level pieces.

cstegerlewis wrote:

cj wrote:You'll be doing a lot of walking so something comfortable and waterproof bearing in mind the weather for the Autumn/Christmas term. Our uniform lists used to state the number of laceholes permitted for girls shoes (can't remember!!). Boys were allowed more. Pedantic, or wot?

Cath, we were still being issued shoes by the Wardrobe in those days (although a few DM's were creeping in).

My mum insisted that my brother and I always had our 'own' shoes - she had (still does) a thing about used shoes. Having said that, did all the girls have wardrobe shoes at Hertford? Did Horsham do 'wardrobe' shoes for the girls? We had yucky brown things with Hertford uniform so they couldn't be re-used after the merger.