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error carried forward

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error carried forward (plural errors carried forward)

  1. (education) An error (especially a miscalculation) that is inadvertendly transferred from one part of a question to the next, leading to inaccuracies in subsequent results.
    Synonym: follow through
    Award marks if student has an error carried forward from question 2.
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