Text Message Speak Allowed on New Zealand Exams

By Michael Santo
Executive Editor, RealTechNews

Here’s a good one. New Zealand has just decided to allow the use of text message speak on their NCEA exams. You know, things like ROFL (Rolling on the Floor Laughing), stuff like that.

NZQA deputy chief executive of qualifications Bali Haque said credit would be given in this year’s NCEA exams if the answer “clearly shows the required understanding”, even if text abbreviations were used. Source: NZ Herald

We Say: OMG! What were they thinking? IMHO, we could eventually have young people coming up and speaking in ways like “OM-Guh” (I’m trying to phonetically do OMG) instead of “Oh my God!”.

BTW, the feedback to this in New Zealand has NOT been favorable (for the most part).