Exam board to be fined record £175,000 after mixing up Montagues and Capulets in GCSE paper

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From https://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/2018/07/02/exam-board-fined-record-175000-mixing-montagues-capulets-gcse/

Exam board to be fined record £175,000 after mixing up Montagues and Capulets in GCSE paper

Camilla Turner, education editor
2 JULY 2018 • 8:02PM

An exam board is to be fined a record £175,000 after mixing up the Montagues and the Capulets in a GCSE paper.

A question about Romeo and Juliet in an OCR English literature paper, which was sat by 14,261 candidates last May, confused the two warring families.

Their mistake rendered the question incomprehensible and meant that the exam paper was “not fit for purpose”, according to the exam regulator Ofqual.

On Monday Ofqual announced that it intends to impose a hefty financial penalty of £175,000 on OCR, which is the largest fine it has ever issued.
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1. Doesn't anyone check stuff anymore?

The error was in a question that read: "How does Shakespeare present the ways in which Tybalt's hatred of the Capulets influences the outcome of the play?"

Tybalt WAS a Capulet.

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2. What's in a name? A rose by any name would smell as sweet.

But maybe not get you as many marks.