For the record, I think you are the only person who doesn’t like getting high marks easily. For most people, having easy bonuses is great! They help you focus less on earning marks (because it’s much easier to), so you can spend more time actually learning the material.

I think the situation I was intending to describe is the easy likelihood of getting over perfect. When it’s out of 100 and you have a number of bonus questions, it’s not necessarily hard to get over perfect. The education system’s marking numbers indicate that a level 4 is 80–100, I believe… so giving marks that are >100 are sort of unnecessarily high.

Balance that with the fact that not all teachers do that, and you have students in one class who have an easier time achieving a high mark compared with students in another class who do not have the benefit of bonuses.

“an evaluation with required questions that become optional; for instance, questions 101–119 becoming ‘bonus’ questions when nothing specifically makes them harder or more suitable as bonuses”

This seems like a positive situation as well — realizing you have 19 fewer questions you have to do. Unless they become “bonus” AFTER the actual exam, but even then — you get the marks either way. Isn’t this exactly the situation I described in the above comment?

What I really meant to say was this: if you got all of the questions from 101–119 right but questions #91–100 wrong, then removing those 19 questions would make your score 90.0% rather than 92.4%.

I don’t see what you mean. If you scored, say, 89/119, you’d have less than 75% on that exam; if they reduce the total to 100, your mark goes all the way up to 89%. You will never be worse off; maybe I’m misinterpreting how your marks were changed?

Oh, I got a great idea! There’s also something else you should add! … never mind.