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consequential marks

consequential marks is the plural of consequential mark.

Meaning of consequential mark

Noun

consequential mark (plural consequential marks)

  1. A mark awarded to a student when assessing their work, on the basis that they followed the correct method despite arriving at an incorrect result or conclusion due to an earlier error in the work.
    • I wrote 5 instead of 6 on the second line of my working, so my answer came out as –4 instead of 30, but thanks to consequential marks I still got 4 marks out of 6.

Questions about consequential marks

What is consequential marks the plural of?
Consequential marks is the plural of consequential mark.

Words near consequential marks in the dictionary

  1. consequent
  2. consequent phrase
  3. consequent phrases
  4. consequential
  5. consequential mark
  6. consequential marks
  7. consequentialism
  8. consequentialisms
  9. consequentialist
  10. consequentialistic
  11. consequentialistically

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Adapted from Wiktionary: consequential marks (page history and authors); consequential mark (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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