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Pupils 'unable to use full stops'
Published: 01 January, 2007
A third of children leave primary school in England unable to use full stops and capital letters properly, examiners have suggested. They are unable to demarcate sentences with basic punctuation marks, analysis by exams watchdog the Qualifications and Curriculum Authority reveals. Some 67% of the 600,000 11-year-olds who took Key Stage 2 writing tests in 2006 met the standard expected of them. Just under half reached level 4 in national English tests as a whole. The scale of the problem is revealed in an analysis of national assessment task results from 2006 by the examinations watchdog, the QCA. Related articles: 
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