Radical Left-Wing Educationalists Have Come up With a New Idea to Help Improve Students’ Exam Performance – Let Them Set Their Own Questions and Then Take as Long as They Like to Answer Them

September is here, and children and students all across the nation will be returning back to the classroom and lecture-theatre, many surely dreading the fact that, for some of them at least, this may be a formal GCSE, A-level or degree examination year. The fear of failure in such tests has always been a real one, at least up until now. To prove it, there is a whole cottage industry out there on the Internet these days in which teachers and examiners post images of stupid answers given by their students in exams and workbooks. Here are a few of my favourite examples:

As of yet, such answers most assuredly do not make the grade. And yet, as we saw last time around, demented Left-wing moves are now afoot to essentially allow schoolchildren and university students the luxury of designing their own semi-personalised examinations and assessment schemes. To the extent that, someday, the above incredibly incorrect answers may gain actual legitimate credit simply by virtue of demonstrating the candidates’ ability – intentional or otherwise – to create witty and amusing answers rather than boring old factually correct ones. The following two would surely gain an A* in the woke GCSE grade-schemes of tomorrow:

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