Apparently the usage of them as “yes” came from America, where it was always used as such.

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  1. I’ve always used them to mean “yes” and I haven’t had a problem so I’m guessing in here we all use them to mean “yes” too.

  2. I have never seen that to mean ‘No’ here.

    We do have a lot of people who use ‘x’ to mean yes though! That can cause confusion, particularly in multi lingual classes.

  3. I do remember that in elementary school exams around 20 years ago the “wrong” symbol was a ✓and the “correct” symbol was •/•

    Later on in high school and university everything is just graded with points

  4. It was the symbol for wrong answers back when I was in school 10-20 years ago, and a big, cursive-like R was the symbol for correct answers.

    But as a teacher today, I don’t use these symbols at all. I usually just use a – (like a dash/hyphen) after the answer to signal that it’s wrong and a 1 (or another number, indicating the amount of points) to signal that it’s correct.

    I don’t know if the check mark is still commonly used for wrong answers (or the R for correct answers for that matter), but I can’t say I’ve seen anyone use it in the last 10 years. I haven’t seen anyone use it for right answers either though, only in English-speaking media.

    It sometimes appears as “check” though, replacing the traditional “x”.

  5. Now I’d assume it’s yes. But when I was in school, both. Either this mark was next to right answers with 0, X or something else next to wrong answers, or there was only this mark for wrong answer and nothing next to the right answer. Every teacher had their own system.

  6. well there are some differences in gestures (like in albania when you nod your head left-right it means “yes”) but i never saw the ✔️ being uses as a “no” in germany…

  7. Check mark is just a check mark. You are selecting some field out of many and it usually doesn’t matter what kind of check mark you are using. (unless it is some prehistoric machine reading and you need to do a cross from box corners).

    Can’t really say I seen any other usage of check marks here

  8. You can always trust Aftonbladet to use checkmarks to list horrible events as if they’re going down a list.

  9. In Germany it’s used in schools to mark correctly answered questions on tests. A wrong answer is marked wth an “f” (for *falsch*). So I can’t imagine that anyone here would view a check mark as a no.

  10. They mean “Yes”, but the cross mark means “Yes” too. We’re specifically instructed to use X on election ballots.

  11. A tick doesn’t mean “no”. But in schoolwork, it might mean “I’ve found sth here” – usually a mistake, but not always.

    A tick or a cross may be specifically required in certain forms.

    But if both ticks and crosses are used on the same page, then
    “tick” = “yes”,
    “cross” = “no”

  12. it is not used very often, but i never heared of the check mark being used as the wrong-symbol

  13. The only thing I can think of is the marks Russian language teachers leave in red ink on the margins when checking your work:

    – | is a spelling mistake
    – V is a punctuation mistake
    – various letters for factual/logical/speech/grammar mistakes

  14. It always means yes, the X means no. Or the X usually means no, but sometimes people use it to select from a list of options, so the X means yes in that case, confusingly. When you vote, you put X next to the one you want to vote for.

  15. Actually we use V or a check mark in school as a no. Yes in this situation is either 1 (as in one point) or 2 dots and a tilted line i between, something like the % symbol.

  16. And how do they symbolise “no”. I mean, if there are two options then ,“x” is used as answer between them but if you have to mark “yes” or “no”… I don’t know, I’m confused.

  17. I’ve seen the V used as “something is missing in your answer here” when teachers grade tests. Like an *[insert correct thing here]*. But that’s usually in the middle of a sentence so the context is obvious that it doesn’t mean yes or correct

  18. This is how I was taught in school in Sweden in the 80’s and 90’s:

    R: Correct.
    ✔️: Incorrect.

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