[etni] Re: splitting hairs??
- From: Ruthi <rsheffer@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: etni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 8 Sep 2008 13:26:26 +0300
I don't think that is splitting hairs. That's quite a basic kind of
mistake.And we are not talking about primary school teachers,but examiners
who are setting a paper which is presumably proof read by a group of native
speaker professionals before it is released to the students.
On Mon, Sep 8, 2008 at 12:31 PM, remanuel <remanuel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> In the composition topic of this summer's moed bet's G they were asked to
> write about a suggestion made "in order to increase road safety...".
> My question is: can you "increase" road safety??? Surely you can only
> increase numbers! You can *improve* road safety. Am I splitting hairs or
> should the composers of our Bagrut exams know better?? And that takes us to
> the old question: why do we split hairs when it comes to our students'
> writing when our own "experts" are lacking in terms of accuracy??!!
> By the way, when are the official answer keys to the summer exams going up
> on the net?
> Have a great year, everybody!
> Rachelle
>
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