A slight dilemma

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Ok this is really petty but…I’m in the UK and there’s this thing called coursework schools submit for this thing called GCSE. This year’s coursework answer for a particular course got leaked but schools still had to do it (although it isn’t marked) becuase it would be unfair if some schools had lost 20 hours to it and others not. Now our school is kind of cheating, they told us to write the most rubbish page we could write for the last section so that we could pretend our school had done those 20 hours. I’m not even sure how many hours we were behind, but the point stands that it kind of is cheating, but our teacher told us to do it. So do I…

a) Try to inform the exam board (not sure this is an option or how it would go)
b) Do what I was told
c) Simply leave my document incomplete
d) other

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So if it is a matter of sin and grace to your conscience then the heroic thing to do that protects everybody’s dignity is to not do a rubbish page but attempt to put your own 20 hrs effort into it.

If you cannot do your best, God will understand.

Remote material cooperation in the “sin” of another (especially when your cooperation or not makes no difference to the outcome) is not personally sinful.
 
I could do that, but the point of those 20 hours is that it is supposed to be 20 hours of class which you are not supposed to do (ie loose 20 teaching hours, the personal time of the student doesn’t matter, it is the collective time of the class) and it should not even be unsupervised at all (that’s really against the rules). He told us to do the last page in a bad way so that we could pretend we did 20 class hours, not 20 individual hours.
 
Ioana said:
I could do that, but the point of those 20 hours is that it is supposed to be 20 hours of class which you are not supposed to do (ie loose 20 teaching hours, the personal time of the student doesn’t matter, it is the collective time of the class) and it should not even be unsupervised at all (that’s really against the rules). He told us to do the last page in a bad way so that we could pretend we did 20 class hours, not 20 individual hours.
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Sorry, I find this confusing.
Are you a teacher or a student?
 
BlackFriar said:
Sorry, I find this confusing.

Are you a teacher or a student?
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Me too. I’m baffled. I’m pretty sure she’s a student, not a teacher, but I don’t see what the school expects to gain by students deliberately submitting a poorly done test, rather than doing the best they can. Can you explain that, please, @Ioana?
 
The part that they want them to do poorly has been leaked so the decision has been made that it won’t impact the students’ grades.
 
Elf01 said:
The part that they want them to do poorly has been leaked so the decision has been made that it won’t impact the students’ grades.
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Yes, nobody will get any marks for it. But what does the school expect to gain by students deliberately submitting a poorly done test, rather than doing the best they can? Can you explain that? I still don’t get it.
 
It allows the school and student more time to focus on the parts that will impact the grades.
 
If you are under 16 years of age (which I’m presuming as you said it’s for GCSE coursework) this is something your parents should take up with the head teacher in the first instance.
 
Elf01 said:
It allows the school and student more time to focus on the parts that will impact the grades.
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No, that’s not what the OP says.
Ioana said:
they told us to write the most rubbish page we could write for the last section so that we could pretend our school had done those 20 hours.
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I suppose I read that a bit differently. I understand that the school doesn’t want to do the 20 hours on something that won’t impact grades. I’d read the rubbish as hyperbole. They don’t want the students to focus on it, they want them to focus on the rest that will impact grades.
 
You understood right.
In a normal situation it would be:
A) supervised 20h
B) work submitted to exam board
C) the work would be marked

Now it should be
A) 20 supervised hours (so that nobody gets more time learning the actual course than anybody else).
B) Work submitted
C) Work checked for being complete but quality is of no interest

*note explaining leak. This is a computer science project. The whole country (if they do GCSE CS) does it. The sample code got leaked to the world so the exam board has decided that since we’ve all seen the solution the coursework would be worth 0%

What we are doing is
A) 15 supervised hours (so +5 teaching hours)
B) one unsupervised hour so that we technically complete the project; but badly
C) projects submitted
D) exam board sees them as complete, assumes we have done 20 class hours like everyone
 
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