Top Ten Scoring Pitfalls in College Entrance Exam Answers - News - Wulin Blog Network

by 304885068 on 2008-04-28 18:39:43

Misconception One: Typos Everywhere

Outcome: Learning Knowledge for Nothing

In the college entrance exam papers, what makes the graders feel most helpless is the situation where students score zero due to typos. For example, in this year's Chinese test, there was a 6-point dictation question where many students actually wrote out all the text but still scored zero. Why? Because in the six sentences, each sentence had at least one typo. According to the rules, if there is one wrong character, the entire sentence gets no points.

Actually, it's not just Chinese; other subjects are equally unforgiving of typos. For instance, in Geography, if there is a typo at a scoring point, no points are awarded either. For example...