The second semester of the academic year at Strathclyde starts tomorrow. The first semester exams finished last Friday and I've almost finished marking my questions from the Low-level Programming exam paper. Some of the answers have appalled me and I'm not sure whether to be depressed or angry. I think I'll go for anger as I know the answers to the questions set were to be found in the lecture notes and/or the coursework set for the students. I find it inconceivable that students can manage to score 0, 1, 2, ... out of 20 for a question and yet they manage it ;-) It must take a special skill.

Alas, I don't think I can quote from some of the answers. I would dearly love to as they make scary/hilarious reading. My only comfort is that those that do so badly are likely to fail most/all of their other exams and so won't be graduating with a CS degree from Strathclyde thus preserving the good name of our degree (and, incidentally, the premium employers seem to place on our graduates [which I've already alluded to in an earlier post]).

Well, back to exam marking. Wish me luck!!