Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

consequential mark

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.03 in modern English

Syllables: con-se-quen-tial -mark
IPA

34

Scrabble Score

17

Letters

5

Syllables

14

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

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.

Example Sentences

"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."
"Does the scheme allow 'consequential' marks when an early mistake affects later parts of an answer?"
"You can still pick up 'method' and 'consequential' marks if you make mistakes early in the question."
"This is an example of a question in which consequential marks were available even if an earlier part of the calculation was incorrect."

Inflected Forms

consequential marks (plural)

Phrases

error carried forward

Frequently Paired Words

error carried forward

Questions

What does consequential mark mean?: 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.

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