British Exam Board OCR Fined £175,000 for Shakespeare Error
British Exam Board OCR Fined £175,000 for Shakespeare Error. A British graduation agency is fined £175,000 due to a mistake in the English Literature exam, posted by Citi News.
"How does Shakespeare see how Tybalt's hatred towards the Capulet family affects the outcome of Romeo and Juliet?" British students probably thought about this question for a long time in their final exam in English literature last year.
Not that The Bard had made it so difficult in his tragic love story, but the compiler of the exam had been mistaken in the family feud. An expensive mistake, because the regulator filed a record fine of £175,000 yesterday.
Tybalt, Julia's cousin, belongs to the Capulet clan, so the question should have been "How does Shakespeare show how Tybalt's hatred towards the Montag...