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Re:India school-leaving exam: A controversy that cost 23 lives by 9wzYQbTYsAIc on Sunday August 25, 2019 @08:51AM (#20792671)
Working hard for good grades and being disappointed at failure is normal too.

Software design could, probably should, have incorporated the social context of failure. This is Asia, India in particular, that we are talking about here - the hyper-competitiveness that these kids go through is probably worse than what medical doctors go through in prestigious schools in the US.

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Re:India school-leaving exam: A controversy that cost 23 lives by lxjum on Sunday August 25, 2019 @08:54AM (#20792693)
>Software design should have incorporated the social context of failure.

Yeah sure. My bad. Let's be reasonable:

if(grade < 5)grade = 5

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Re:India school-leaving exam: A controversy that cost 23 lives by 9wzYQbTYsAIc on Sunday August 25, 2019 @08:59AM (#20792716)
How about if(gradeForStudent(i) < avg(gradesForStudent(i))) flagForReview

Still a one liner.

You seem to have forgot that the software defect was an error in grading.

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