<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">I agree with Mark's answer.<div><br></div><div>Rob</div><div><br><div>
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<br><div><div>On 19/05/2011, at 12:08 PM, Mark KELLY wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><b>From the 2010 ITA Exam - Question 5B. </b> I have a belated complaint now that I've seen the examiner's official answer in the <a href="http://www.vcaa.vic.edu.au/vcaa/vce/studies/infotech/it-applications/assessreports/2010/itapps_assessrep_10.pdf">assessment report</a>.<br>
<br>Can someone please point out if I'm wrong, but I think they've badly messed up the answer, and kids will have unfairly lost up to 4 marks.<br><br>From the PERT chart ...<br><span><b5.jpg></span><br>
<br>They asked for a corresponding Gantt chart. Their solution was this:<br><br><span><assrep-gantt-solution.gif></span><br clear="all"><br>It's obvious in the PERT that tasks A and B are <b>concurrent</b>. <b>B is not dependent on A</b>! <br>
Yet in their Gantt, they've clearly shown task B as being dependent on A.<br>Then, they went on to leave out fact that that tasks E and D were also dependent on task B through the dummy task.<br><br>I hate to think that my kids lost marks because of these errors by the examiners. <br>
It's too late to re-mark exams, but it really makes me worry that markers can be given such dodgy official answers when grading papers.<br><br><font size="4"><b>Grrrrr!<br></b><b><br></b></font><br>-- <br>Mark Kelly<br>
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