consequential mark

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English

Noun

consequential mark (plural consequential marks)

  1. (education) A mark awarded to a student when assessing their work, on the basis that they followed the correct method despite arriving at an incorrect result or conclusion due to an earlier error in the work.
    I wrote 5 instead of 6 on the second line of my working, so my answer came out as –4 instead of 30, but thanks to consequential marks I still got 4 marks out of 6.
    • 1989, Phil Race, The open learning handbook, page 87:
      Does the scheme allow 'consequential' marks when an early mistake affects later parts of an answer?
    • 2006, Mike Cody, VCE Mathematical Methods, →ISBN, page 93:
      You can still pick up 'method' and 'consequential' marks if you make mistakes early in the question.
    • 2008, Andrew Hume, Chemistry VCE 3 & 4, →ISBN, page 7:
      This is an example of a question in which consequential marks were available even if an earlier part of the calculation was incorrect.