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Who are Examiners?

Who marks our GCSE Examinations?

Teachers, Retired Teachers, NQTs, Surgeons, Martians, Angels?

Who is it that decides our future?

Reply 1

lizzyd

teachers/ ex teachers
most of my teachers mark exams, and i'm assuming that ex teachers can apply to do it too

Reply 2

Papillon

1

They are teachers, are they not?

Well, that is what I always thought, anyway.

Reply 3

Juno

20

Usually teachers, but sometimes they let anyone with a relevant degree if they're sort on markers. But all papers are moderated and assessed, so no marker should be stricter/more lenient than others.

Reply 4

t-a-r-online

OP

1

That's good to know!

I hope they like a challenge with handwriting, i hear the OCR Applied ICT papers are scanned and sent over the internet!

Reply 5

Krystal

1

YEH...some do online marking, its always the same with our exam officer..."do not write in the sections outside the margin. This paper is designed for online marking" He's like a robot!

anyway i hope they do like a challenge with the handwriting....My english! ah. Its llike a scribble all the way! lol aint that bad.... but i have beeen told by my teacher its hard 2 read. so :s

AND TO THE ORIGINAL QUESTION: They are HUMANS! *gasp* *faints* lol.

Reply 6

Juno

20

If they can't read the scanned copy, then they'll request the real copy and mark it from that. And if one person can't read it, they'll pass it around until they find someone who can.

Reply 7

Swayum

18

http://www.aqa.org.uk/over/script.html

Reply 8

FireDeuce

14

Well loads of teachers do to get a bit more money.
I got a mate though, hes at uni, and he's marking AQA scripts....and not in the subjects he has A levels in.

Reply 9

Excalibur

15

My ICT teacher is an examiner, and so is my RS teacher and my English teacher. So I think it can be a mix of current teachers and ex teachers... but according to my ICT teacher they do sometimes recruit people that are not experts at the subject to do the marking! Only for the clear right/wrong answer type of exams though.

And I think aliens play a part too :p:

Reply 10

Cataclysm

2

Excalibur

My ICT teacher is an examiner, and so is my RS teacher and my English teacher. So I think it can be a mix of current teachers and ex teachers... but according to my ICT teacher they do sometimes recruit people that are not experts at the subject to do the marking! Only for the clear right/wrong answer type of exams though.

And I think aliens play a part too :p:

I'm sure that they have have upgraded from that system and a computer marks single word answers these days so like in a French Listening exam in which you had to put down options like A G F , the computer automatically marks it. They used to hire "clerks" who checked all the marks were added correctly but thee devil - teh computer has stolen those jobs as well.

It'd be cool if Martians were involved somewhere along the line!

Reply 11

t-a-r-online

OP

1

Cataclysm

It'd be cool if Martians were involved somewhere along the line!

Well, do you think they are not?

I mean, with the warning of 'This Page is Blank', any human would clearly recognise that, therefore there are secret messages encoded into the blank page to allow Martians to read them properly...

Why do you think the exam boards are so strict on Mobile Phones? Even if they are off, the Martians can penetrate our skin with their Martiany thoughts and give us the answers to the exam.

Reply 12

Cataclysm

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t-a-r-online

Well, do you think they are not?

I mean, with the warning of 'This Page is Blank', any human would clearly recognise that, therefore there are secret messages encoded into the blank page to allow Martians to read them properly...

Why do you think the exam boards are so strict on Mobile Phones? Even if they are off, the Martians can penetrate our skin with their Martiany thoughts and give us the answers to the exam.

Actually, being one of the people who mocks the idea of a "blank page" there is a actually a good reason behind it as explained by our Examinations Officer; they purposefully write "BLANK PAGE" because in the exam when you are doing questions, students would often get confused when they saw a blank page, many would think that their paper didn't have the question printed properly and would panic, so to ease everyone you can have the assurance that on the blank there is no content intended to be there and you can carry on merrily.

Reply 13

t-a-r-online

OP

1

Yeah, that's the reason i thought they had them aswell... if there was a blank page in the middle of an Edexcel Exam you'd thing "ey up" (excuse my broad Yorkshire Accent)!

Reply 14

Excalibur

15

Cataclysm

I'm sure that they have have upgraded from that system and a computer marks single word answers these days so like in a French Listening exam in which you had to put down options like A G F , the computer automatically marks it. They used to hire "clerks" who checked all the marks were added correctly but thee devil - teh computer has stolen those jobs as well.

It'd be cool if Martians were involved somewhere along the line!

Yeah, I suppose. The multiple choice questions and stuff are probably marked by an OMR reader.

One of my exams had four pages of "This page is a blank page"... I mean... why put it in there in the first place??

Reply 15

Jaswarbrick

Cataclysm

Actually, being one of the people who mocks the idea of a "blank page" there is a actually a good reason behind it as explained by our Examinations Officer; they purposefully write "BLANK PAGE" because in the exam when you are doing questions, students would often get confused when they saw a blank page, many would think that their paper didn't have the question printed properly and would panic, so to ease everyone you can have the assurance that on the blank there is no content intended to be there and you can carry on merrily.

Ah but as soon as "This is a blank page" is written down on a page, is that page blank anymore? No. :biggrin: