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RTFQ? Is this a normal teacher comment?

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Silverstreet · 16/05/2012 22:50

DD got this on her exam paper today, apparently the teacher uses it a lot. I know it could also mean "read the full question", but I was a bit surprised.

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TalkinPeace2 · 12/06/2012 16:53

I use to write "churn" a lot
because they churned out everything they knew rather than answering the question

nummus · 12/06/2012 14:46

I would assume fucking.

That's an odd sentence to have to write.

TheOriginalSteamingNit · 12/06/2012 13:52

Given that I'm regularly tempted to annotate essays with the comment 'WTF?' I think it's quite measured and useful!

I teach undergrads, but we have a list of diacritical comments to speed up marking on screen - so although I might sometimes get lengthy and write 'yes! this is a really interesting point, but I wonder whether you could have engaged slightly more closely with the critical text you have cited above?' it is also handy to just put 'p.v.!' sometimes.

somebloke123 · 12/06/2012 13:48

Sounds like a fairly harmless bit of double entendre - a bit like RTFM (Read the fine manual).

pattercakes · 08/06/2012 15:41

Amusing in a droll sort of way.

verona · 07/06/2012 13:52

My son was taught this acronym whilst preparing for his year 6 SATS. Seems his teacher said something along the lines of 'well, OF COURSE the F stands for full'. The LSA then said 'You're going to get some complaints about that'.

manicinsomniac · 21/05/2012 22:32

I use RTQ or NTQ (not the question).

However, with a pile of Y8 comprehensions beside me right now, I'm so tempted to switch to RTFQ - and it would be the rude version!

bigTillyMint · 20/05/2012 21:23

DH says he puts a Q and a ? in the margin.

Ilovegeorgeclooney · 20/05/2012 21:21

Always been Full since I was at uni in the 80's. Use it often and never been challenged and I work in an inner city school. A bit shocked at people making the sort of assumptions they are. If a question asks a pupil to explore and analyse I will write RTFQ and circle what has been missed if they have just explored for example. However in CRAFT............

TheSkiingGardener · 20/05/2012 19:42

I never knew the F could stand for Full.

You learn something new every day....

Trills · 20/05/2012 19:33

Missing out the unnecessary S it's a very valid and constructive comment.

lovebunny · 20/05/2012 19:15

i've been teaching for nineteen years and i've never seen that before!

TalkinPeace2 · 20/05/2012 19:08

Miranda
they did get cross with me
repeatedly
but nobody else was willing to read the audit papers for the money !
we parted ways after 4 years :-)

MirandaWest · 20/05/2012 17:13

TalkinPeace2 the ones I mark are accountancy ones as well - I do think RTFQ a lot but sadly the college I mark for would be v cross at us actually using it.....

TalkinPeace2 · 20/05/2012 13:48

I used to use RTFQ a LOT - and I did mean the rude version
but then I was marking post graduate accountancy exams and they already had 2:1 s under their belts.
NOT appropriate for children - RTQ maybe

QueenEdith · 20/05/2012 12:56

I didn't know the 'f' could stand for 'full', and I bet I'm not alone in that and I'm an oldster whose first response to LOL is 'lots of love')

I'm willing to bet that I'm far from alone in seeing the 'f' as 'fucking' and if teachers of teens isn't aware how that is a (if not the) widespread reading, they are sadly out of touch.

EndoplasmicReticulum · 20/05/2012 12:51

I write RTQ. Not heard of it with an F, wouldn't use it with an F because it's open to misinterpretation!

boomting · 20/05/2012 11:17

It was always RTQ when I was at school. Is the teacher aware of how the kids interpret his acronym?

Madsometimes · 17/05/2012 18:30

I always thought that RTFQ was the rude version Blush. Mind like a sewer.

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Silverstreet · 16/05/2012 23:04

thanks Laurie - I did say it was most likely "full". Good to know it is often used, I will tell her that tomorrow.

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LaurieFairyCake · 16/05/2012 22:59

Kids are going to read 'fucking' in every acronym with an 'F' but that's because of 'Read the Fucking Manual' - it has never been anything but Read the Full Question.

Putting the Fucking in is only because of RTFM.

TheFallenMadonna · 16/05/2012 22:59

I'm not sure it's what Ofsted have in mind when they look for formative feedback...

LaurieFairyCake · 16/05/2012 22:58

Well of course the badly raised Grin children obsessed with swear words think that Hmm

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Silverstreet · 16/05/2012 22:57

they are Y10

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ApricotPoodle · 16/05/2012 22:57

'Read the FULL question' I personally can't see any problem with that, and tbh, if she is old enough to realise the other meaning, then its more likely she'll learn from it and actually RTQ next time.