BBC News: An exam board is to review its marking guidance after one of its top examiners gave marks for a script which contained only a two-word sexual expletive:

The Times reported that Assessment and Qualifications Alliance chief examiner Peter Buckroyd gave a pupil two marks out of 27 for an English GCSE paper.

He is quoted as saying the candidate had demonstrated more skills than one “who doesn’t write anything at all”.

AQA said this was not in line with its guidelines, which would be clarified.

The pupil is reported to have written “fuck off”, and would have had another mark for adding an exclamation point.

I can’t work out if this is a brilliant reductio ad absurdum against the rotting, strangling British system of examinations, or simply another feral yoof rattling the bars of his learning cage.

(In fact I consider school less of a cage, more of a strangely shaped glass bottle designed to restrict growth, like a Bonsai Kitten.)