Writing f_ck all gets you no marks...

[Pushkin]

…but f_ck off gets you two, three if you hadn’t been so foolish as to forget the exclamation mark.

According to the Beeb;

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

And I thought that you got marks just by writing your name