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00:00 - 00:03So. Paper 2 is finished. The candidates are filing out of the sports hall.
00:04 - 00:05Anyone who only revised the named topics on the spec, leave the room.
00:05 - 00:07the generals shuffle out, doors close]
00:08 - 00:12Now. Tell me how the morning actually went.
00:12 - 00:15We were ready, mein Führer. Respiration. Homeostasis. Genetic crosses. Two years of drilling.
00:17 - 00:19And the twenty-marker? The big one at the end?
00:19 - 00:21It was… fish farming, mein Führer. Aquaculture.
00:24 - 00:26farming?! FISH FARMING?! On a BIOLOGY paper?!
00:27 - 00:28Stocking density. Antibiotics in the feed. Energy loss in the food chain. None of it touched.
00:31 - 00:33He revised the entire specification and they ambushed him with a TROUT POND.
00:34 - 00:36quiet] How many marks. Tell me honestly how many marks he got on the fish.
00:53 - 00:58TWENTY MARKS. A FIFTH OF THE PAPER. ON SALMON.
01:13 - 01:15Don’t. Don’t you dare tell me about selective breeding in fish. Don’t say it.
01:15 - 01:17He wrote something about oxygen in the water. He improvised. He had nothing and he improvised.
01:18 - 01:23Two YEARS. Two years of past papers and not ONE of them had fish farming.
01:25 - 01:28I checked the spec myself. It’s in there. One line. ONE LINE and they made it twenty marks.
01:29 - 01:31slams table] The examiners knew. They KNEW no one revised it.
01:31 - 01:34They sat in their meeting and they CHOSE the fish.
01:34 - 01:37They sat in their meeting and they CHOSE the fish.
01:37 - 01:40the loyal generals stay, heads down]
01:40 - 01:42He could have had photosynthesis. He could have had the heart. He revised BOTH.
01:42 - 01:46And instead — intensive fish farming. Cages. Predator nets. WATER QUALITY.
01:46 - 01:48breathing hard] I optimised his revision timetable for NOTHING.
01:48 - 01:52Nothing. NOTHING.
01:53 - 01:54long pause, calmer] …The grade boundaries will fall. They have to fall.
01:56 - 01:57Everyone sat the same paper. Everyone hit the same fish. He is not alone in this.
01:57 - 02:00When a whole cohort drowns together, the boundaries come down with them.
02:00 - 02:03He’ll still get the marks for reduced energy loss. That’s the food chain point. That’s free.
02:04 - 02:08Maybe four marks. Maybe five, if the mark scheme is kind.
02:08 - 02:13the women weeping in the corridor outside, smoking]
02:14 - 02:16He answered every other question. The genetics. The synapses. All of it, correct.
02:17 - 02:21One bad twenty-marker does not sink a paper. It does not.
02:27 - 02:29He’s a good student. He worked. None of this was his fault.
02:30 - 02:34The fault is the board’s. The fault is whoever decided aquaculture deserved a fifth of the marks.
02:34 - 02:36Bring me the mark scheme when it’s published.
02:41 - 02:42I want to see exactly how generous they are on the fish.
02:43 - 02:47And get me the examiner’s report. I want names.
02:48 - 02:53He’ll resit if he has to. There’s always the autumn series.
02:54 - 02:56But he won’t have to. The boundaries will save him. I know they will.
02:56 - 02:59Leave me now. All of you.
03:00 - 03:02I want to be alone with the specification.
03:04 - 03:07generals file out one last time]
03:14 - 03:16Hitler alone at the table, staring at the exam paper
03:19 - 03:23Fish farming.
03:25 - 03:26Two years. And it came down to a trout.
03:31 - 03:33Two years. And it came down to a trout.
03:40 - 03:46Mein Führer… Paper 3 is next week.
03:46 - 03:49Then we revise the ecology section. All of it. Every word.
03:53 - 03:56Especially the fish.