'But we totally said that it was found on the Internet!'

[dolorosa_12]

As a chaser of sorts, and to prove that I'm not really a very angry person, I bring you an unbelievably amusing story.

Exams [in the VCE, which is the secondary school qualification for students in the Australian state of Victoria] for the popular History: Revolution subject were originally supposed to include the artwork Storming the Winter palace on 25th October 1917 by Nikolai Kochergin, which depicts events during the October Revolution, which was instrumental in the larger Russian Revolution of 1917.

But when students opened their exam this morning they found an altered version of the work with what appear to be a large "BattleTech Marauder" robot aiding the rising revolutionaries in the background.

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[hickumu]

XD So, lemme guess. Anyone who could point out that the Battletech Marauder was probably not actually supposed to have been there during the storming passed their exam?

(Best final~. God, I wish my exams could be that cool.)

[dolorosa_12]

Yes, although it really does show shocking ineptitude on the part of the people who set the exam. Basically, they did a Google Image search for the picture, and that one with the robot in it was the first hit...so that was the one they used. So much for the rigorous examination of sources.

[hickumu]

Woah, wait...the exam wasn't supposed to contain a picture with a robot in it? Dang, I missed that. I thought they intentionally included it.

Well, if the students prove to be better at research than you are, they should still automatically pass.

[miss-foxy.livejournal.com]

yeah the VCAA have done two dodgy things in a row - last year with the english exam they butchered a piece by helen razor. grrr!

[dolorosa-12.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I heard about the thing with Helen Razer. I think there's always some problem with exams. In my IB Japanese exam, we had to write a 200-character essay, but they'd only provided us with one sheet of paper, which had only 140 squares for characters. You can imagine how it was trying to explain this to the grumpy old lady who was invigilating the exam.