There was a question and it went along like this:

From the graph:

a)i) Pick the top speed:

ii) When it happened:

iii) The position at the time:

And the answer that I got (and so did the teacher) was 8.5ms^-1. The answer from the graph.

But the thing was, that the graph was from a table of values (given to you) and from those values the top speed could be worked out to be (distance and time was given) 11.5ms^-1.

Now, a person wrote 11.5. Which was technically wrong. I mean, it did ask from the graph. Yet, it bugs me because if you think about it, he had the more correct answer as the graph was well, wrong.

I won't get into the details because it requires the table of values and I don't have the test paper with me. But technically, the graph was drawn wrong (or inaccurately) and without the phrase from the graph, my friend would've been right.

If my friend had drawn a graph, he would've drawn a more accurate version and then he'd be right.

Now, I think he would've gotten the mark. See, he was technically more right than the question. I mean, take it like if you were asked to you g = 10ms^-2 and you used 9.81ms^-2. I mean, your answers were more accurate than what was being required, but because of the constraints of the question, you're wrong.

And this mind you, pretty much makes the rest of the question impossible to get correct and he lost 8 marks in total. Which in the end he got around 60 percent. Now, these tests aren't important, next year they will be and vitally so. And I don't want to fucked out of a grade.

Either way, you know what I would have done. What about you?