Examination disgrace

Taken from:

<http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/education/7481715.stm>

who pinched it from The Times:

[quote]
.... Assessment and Qualifications Alliance chief examiner Peter Buckroyd
gave a pupil two marks out of 27 for an English GCSE paper.
He is quoted as saying the candidate had demonstrated more skills than
one "who doesn't write anything at all".

[...]

The pupil is reported to have written "*** off", and would have had
another mark for adding an exclamation point.
[unquote]

What is the world coming to? WIWAL we'd have had one of the marks taken
away again for omitting the exclamation mark. No wonder the country's
going to the dogs.

Incidentally, is there a (pondial?) usage difference between "exclamation
point" and "exclamation mark"?

--
Les
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