Primary school children lose marks in Sats tests for misshapen commas

Testing culture accused of trying to catch out children rather than recognise their achievements.A row has broken out over the marking of this year’s primary school tests after teachers complained that their pupils had been unfairly marked down for the shape and size of their semi-colons and commas.Children were asked to insert punctuation in a pre-written sentence and, despite getting the answer correct, failed to get a mark because their commas were not curved the right way or their semi