Worst exam blunders published
Ruthless university professors have gone on the attack by publicising their students’ worst exam mistakes.
Dons have shown no mercy in deciding to publish mentions of ‘escape goats’ and railways being invented to relieve pressure on motorways in the Times Higher’s ‘exam howlers’ competition.
Other blunders from undergraduates’ exam papers include an economics student at City University in
London blaming Northern Rock's downfall to ‘laxative enforcement policies’, and an English literature student from Bath Spa University claiming that a Margaret Atwood novel shows how patriarchy treats women as escape goats.
In an unfortunate misspelling, a student at the University of Southampton argued that 'tackling climate change will require an unpresidented response'. And another student declared, ominously, that ‘control of infectious diseases is very important in case an academic breaks out’.
Deputy editor of Times Higher Phil Baty said: "This is simply meant to be a fun snapshot of what students come out with when under pressure, although many of our readers would agree that academic standards of literacy have got a lot worse and there is research suggesting it as well."
