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MattSh

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Fri Nov 16, 2012, 02:52 PM Nov 2012

Australian students learn about the battle bots of the 1917 Russian Revolution.

THE VCE exam body has been left red faced after a doctored artwork depicting a huge robot helping socialist revolutionaries during the Russian Revolution was accidentally included in this year’s year 12 history exam taken by 5700 students.

Exams for the popular History: Revolution subject were original supposed to include the artwork Storming the Winter palace on 25th October 1917 by Nikolai Kochergin, which depicts events during the October Revolution, which was instrumental in the larger Russian Revolution of 1917.

But when students opened their exam this morning they found an altered version of the work with what appear to be a large "BattleTech Marauder" robot aiding the rising revolutionaries in the background.

It is unclear how the doctored version made it into the exam. But a search for the image in Google brings up the robot version as the first result.

http://www.theage.com.au/national/education/history-transformed-in-vce-exam-20121114-29ce7.html



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Australian students learn about the battle bots of the 1917 Russian Revolution. (Original Post) MattSh Nov 2012 OP
Ok that is funny! MinneapolisMatt Nov 2012 #1
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