What is "increase one's score" termed?

English as a Second Language English Vocabulary, Grammar and Idioms
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Hi

What is it termed in English when a student can’t pass a course and the teacher helps him pass by increasing his score.

Isn’t there any better term for “increase” in this case?

Thanks in Advance,

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Hi,

I would simply use the word ‘falsify’ because that’s what’s happening. Many years ago I worked as an English teacher in a private school of English in another country and happened to catch the secretary ‘upgrading’ marks on an exam paper that I had spent a long time correcting following very precise marking procedures. I got quite angry about this and it wasn’t long before the school and I parted company. The parents of the students had paid a lot of money for their children to attend the school and apparently always had to have reports saying how well their offspring were doing!

Alan

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Thanks, but if you want to mention the number of scores (I’m not sure about this structure) added to the real score of a student , it gets really hard to use the verb “falsify.” Is there any other more appropriate verb to be used?

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Hi,

I’m afraid I can’t follow your meaning. If a student fails a course because the score isn’t high enough and then the teacher increases the score so that the student then passes, surely this is falsification!!

Alan

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Happens every day, in Spain. :wink:

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They are called grace marks :slight_smile:

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What I mean might be better clarified in the following example:

I got 7 on my English test and I failed. My dad talked to the teacher and he increased my score to 10 so that I could pass the test. When talking to my friend I went: the teacher falsified 3 scores. IS that correct?

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Bumped up my score.

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Hi Jraou

You could say this:

“The teacher padded my score/grade by three points.”

Using the word “padded” would also add a sense of “falsify” here.
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Cranked up.

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You can use “normalized” or “adjusted”. I find it strange that some teachers do this. What is the point of having tests?

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Perhaps:

  1. The teacher falsified my score by giving me three extra marks.
  2. After due consideration, my score was moderated upwards by 43%.

Less specifically:

  1. The teacher was encouraged to compensate for a shocking deficiency in the test.

MrP

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In which register would you expect those verbs to be found?