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Is it a good idea to penalize spelling mistakes in university entrance tests?

Is it a good idea to penalize spelling mistakes in university entrance tests?

Let’s imagine that an 18-year-old student writes the following sentence on his university entrance exam: “The text does not demonstrate an exhaustive analysis of the problem.” How should having written those misspelled lines affect your final grade? Should we only measure the level of their knowledge, or their ability to transmit it in writing in […]…