Latest News and Comment from Education

Friday, May 31, 2013

Students spend year studying Dracula but are tested on Frankenstein instead | toteachornototeach

Students spend year studying Dracula but are tested on Frankenstein instead | toteachornototeach:

Students spend year studying Dracula but are tested on Frankenstein instead

Fangs for nothing! Students spend a year studying
Dracula only to find out they should have been reading
Frankenstein two weeks before A-level exam


By John Stevens
For almost the whole  academic year, students at a sixth-form college pored over Bram Stoker’s classic horror story Dracula.
Then two weeks before their A-level English exam, they discovered that they should have been learning Frankenstein.
Their teacher had failed to notice that the syllabus changed at the start of the school year in September.
The teenagers at Newmarket College in Suffolk now face desperately having to cram the right text before the exam on Thursday.
Abbie Stallabrass, 18, said: ‘We just sat there stunned when our teacher told us. Dracula is one of three books