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Date: 16 May 2005 14:18:29

When students know very little about the subject an exam question is on, why do they then answer the question? And why does this happen more frequently when it is the first question on a paper?

Never mind, the answers are quick to mark when they have nothing to do with the question, and there were two or three really good answers (meaning that I did actually explain something to the poor darlings, er, students), and most of them got the point of the question without putting very much effort into their answer.

While I was sitting marking the phone rang and one of the three people I had contacted over the weekend about re-doing our yard (making it into a patio instead of a concrete wasteland) came round. Shame I don't know which one it was and the phone number they rang from wasn't on my original list. As usual with builders his ideas are rather different to the ones in my head...

Currently reading: Frost on my Moustache, as recommended by Jack the Lass - highly amusing so far - I thought it would make a very good read after our fairly recent Northern trip.