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A comment on India school-leaving exam: A controversy that cost 23 lives. Parent comment

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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