[CST-2] "Model Answers" (was: Security: 2000 P9 Q6)

[Sapna Jethwa]

What I meant to refer to was what I heard about the "model answers" that
the examiners use to mark against - whether or not these are then made
available to the students - as it seems that examiners write their model
answers to check against and then sometimes find mistakes in them once
they start marking scripts... I may have heard wrong though! ;-)

Nathan Dimmock wrote:
> 
> On Tue, May 29, 2001 , Sapna Jethwa wrote:
> > not to mention the number of "model answers" that are wrong too...
> 
> I think this is why the "Solution notes/marking schemes" available from Lise
> were not available for so long. The Lab are quite keen to stress that they
> are *not* model answers, and the quality of these pieces of paper varies
> significently from course to course and even from year to year. In my
> (albeit limited) experience, the stuff from more recent years seems to be
> much better - I suspect they are trying to build up a decent repository, but
> for older questions, suitable material simply doesn't exist. :-(
> 
> Those of a cynical disposition might say that the lack of real model answers
> is to allow Lab members to make a bit of extra money by giving lots of
> supervisions. I suspect the real reason is more like that the Lab do not
> believe model answers are an effective method of teaching a subject. There
> may be other reasons - a search of the CL website yields quite a few links
> on the subject (the first dating from 1995).
> 
> Regards,
> --
> Nathan                 Jesus College, Cambridge, CB5 8BL
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