Teacher Marking?

What subject is this for? Does your teacher's marking actually count (IE are you doing coursework that is marked in school rather than by the exam board)? You could make a complaint to the headteacher about your concerns, if you treat it seriously and say you'd like to make a formal complaint then they're much more likely to take you seriously.

any more opinions on this matter? What would you do?

Clearly favoritism....like honestly what kind of teacher would do that?? Umm I think that you should go and speak to your teacher, and of course the'll accuse you of cheating and all, but you just need to make it clear that there is something going wrong with the way that this teacher of yours marks. Or if not go to the head of department and tell them what you said here...Honestly what kind of teacher : a, does not notice that they are marking another copy of the same thing, b, give it a complete different mark and then think yup I've done my job? Stupid or what??

Agreed, It was a good test on my behalf on the teacher to prove that the marking wasn't done correctly. I think I will speak to that teacher and will confront him that he may have an incapability of marking a paper at the standards required.

Tell me when you do!! I really want to hear this!

Next lesson is on wednesday. Quite nervous for this because I wouldn't like to tell him that he cannot mark and he should step up his game. But it has to be done.

So, I had doubts that my teacher wasn't giving me nor the class correct marks while marking questions. I had a feeling the grades that were given to us were massively under graded.

This is when I decided to do a little test on my teacher. What I did was that I went onto the exam boards websites and found the exemplar candidate answers and looked for a 12 mark question. One of the students got 12/12 (full marks), so I decided to write his answer as my own and see what my teacher would give it out of 12. After I got the results back for it, I was shocked at how my teacher couldn't mark exam papers and was shocked no one noticed that he couldn't mark either. I scored 4/12 (66% less than what It should have got).

Presently after getting these results back, I don't know what I should say to the teacher, or what to say to the teacher for that fact. Now Studentroom, I need your help to tell me what to do next, because our work is not getting marked properly this close to the exams.

I do this when marking. I give 6/12 for answers I'd give12/12 for in an exam situation.

The reason is because when you're doing these with all of your notes accessible the standard should be higher than in an exam where you are relying on your memory etc.

Tbh I would rather get massively undermarked by my teachers than massively overmarked.

But wouldn't that discourage you. I was nearly at the stage of saying "f&^% this subject", because i was scoring so low for answers i thought i'd get near 80-90% on. But after I did this small test on my teacher I know he wasn't marking properly or heavily under marking (up to 70% less marks), which is a killer.

Personally i do questions without any notes accessible to me, and revise for each section before I take it, and of course time myself. And in this case you have around 15 minutes to write a 12 mark essay. It is not possible to write pages of work, it simply isn't, and the fact is the teacher knew I had timed myself for every test.

I'll show you how much a downscale is even in your case. Okay, you mark it down by 50%. Let us say you got an A. Give or take this is around 58/72. If this was the exam and it was downscaled by 50% that'll give us 28/72, which is equal to around a U/E. Is that fair?

Wouldn't you be frustrated if you were the student? Thanks for the reply by the way.

Agreed, It was a good test on my behalf on the teacher to prove that the marking wasn't done correctly. I think I will speak to that teacher and will confront him that he may have an incapability of marking a paper at the standards required.

The fact that you did a 'test' on the teacher instead of just asking why you were under marked or going to your head of year or the head of department is immature and I'm willing to bet if you go to teachers saying this you will get in trouble.

Update to this article: so I told my teacher that my work didn't deserve 4 marks and I explained to him that I got it from a student exemplar work that got 12/12. He wasn't annoyed about it, and was quite proud I had to courage to tell him about it. So we were talking about how it should have got more, however he kept persistent that it was still 4/12 (like wtf?) he kept saying there wasn't enough detail and AQA were wrong to mark it that way. So he kept going on about how he was going to complain to AQA about it. I believe it was all an act to cover up the lack of knowledge he had for marking exam questions. He looked over my previous work I told him I thought was heavily under marked, they were doubled in marks! It took us 2 hours to go over the questions I've done and he agreed they should be more. (8/24 turned into 18/24). However he's still persistent that AQA are wrong and that he marked the exemplar work correctly (which he gave 4/12 and AQA have 12/12). So is he playing mind games? Does he know he was wrong?

By the way this was done in front of half our class, as he insisted that he doesn't hide any information or accusations from anyone. I think they were just laughing at all of it for me confronting him.