His speech, known as ‘Their Finest Hour’ and made to the House of Commons in June 1940, was marked down due to repetition and the misuse of certain words.
As a result, Churchill was marked as below average in the equivalent of an A Level exam.
The bizarre results were revealed at an education forum yesterday , where the role of e-assessment was under discussion.
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