In reply to Oceanrower:
Gosh you have a lot of anger to direct at a few incorrectly placed letters.
Whilst I agree that correct spelling and grammatical standards are important, particularly in academic work where sloppiness or imprecision bespeaks of a lack of care or attention on the part of the student, I tend to assess whether the mistakes have impeded my understanding of the text. In this case although the spelling mistakes were clear and slightly annoying I was still able to easily determine the questions posed, thus it did not seem worth being churlish over and refusing to respond to on principle.
I agree with the other respondent, a small comment on the need for spelling and grammar development would have been kinder and probably more effective.
As to your wider point on standards and education: who are you to judge whether this person ‘deserves’ to be in further education? You are making uninformed and potentially hurtful judgements with very little to go on except some spelling errors. Ultimately, as a teacher myself, I am worried about slipping grammatical standards but I can’t think of anything more counter-productive than roundly criticising a young person who is at least trying to engage in discourse.
To conclude, the survey took me about 10 minutes and if that helps some lad out doing his work is it so much to ask?
P.S to the OP you need to make sure your keyword spellings are correct!
