Correcting the junior/Leaving cert

irishguy

Anyone know is it possible for a non teacher to correct the leaving/junior cert exams?

Mrs. MacGyver

I'm wondering if they will let you correct the JC exam if you have a full time day job if you can prove you can get the work done?

daithiocondun

Absolutely not, the state examinations inc. the Junior Cer, Leaving Cert and Leaving Cert. Applied may only be corrected by a person with a degree in the relevant subject (and/or adequate teaching experience in the subject), has a Higher Diploma in Education, is a member of the ASTI/TUI etc. and is registered with the State Examinations Commission. Naturally, it would be ridiculous to have a lay person correct exams with have such a huge bearing on student's lives.

ateam

As a teacher in his first year, how do you go about correcting the junior or leaving cert papers i.e. who do I have to contact? Also, does it pay well? Thanks in advance

dame

As far as I know engineers can correct maths exams.

m*pp*t

ateam wrote:

As a teacher in his first year, how do you go about correcting the junior or leaving cert papers i.e. who do I have to contact? Also, does it pay well? Thanks in advance

The jobs are advertised on www.examinations.ie. This years applications were to be in some time last November or December, but I don't think they've made appointments yet so it might be worth your while ringing them up and asking for an application form. Depending on your subjects they might want you alright.

I think they're supposed to start making appointments sometime in April, but I'm not sure. Does anyone know any more about when applicants hear back?

spurious

It doesn't pay that well which is why they are usually stuck for people to correct. You'd be doing well to end up with about 1200 in your hand for a JC paper. They are very VERY tight on expenses - it used to be the case that you made a few bob on expenses even though the correcting itself was badly paid, but that has been tightened right up. If public transport is available, you will have to explain why you did not use it.

It is three weeks full-time work - needing at least 6 and usually 8 hours intensive work a day. You owe every child's script your full attention, so doing it after a day's work, or here and there throughout a day is not acceptable.

It gets a bit easier once you pass the first 200 scripts or so as you will by then have the marking scheme in your head, but then they sometimes make a change in the marking scheme and you have to re-correct all those you have done. You do not get paid extra for this and they do not extend deadlines. The first couple of deadlines, Sample 20 and 1st 100 are very tight, but as I said your correcting speeds up a bit after that. There is a lot of trouble if you miss deadlines and you may not get paid in extreme cases.

It's well worth doing if you are a teacher as it gives an insight into what is wanted in the exam, but if money is your aim, there are many easier ways of making the same money.

ionapaul

I corrected the JC for two years (non-consecutive years) in the 2000s - not a teacher, never been a teacher, have a Masters in the subject I corrected and some third-level tutoring experience while in graduate school, certainly not a member of any teaching (or otherwise) union. Easy enough money IMHO. Didn't work close to 6 hours during most days correcting, despite their claims of needing to work the full day, nor did one of my friends who has also corrected JC exams (likewise, he had a Masters but is not a teacher). That said, correcting lower-level JC papers isn't the most time intensive thing and I think you'd need a lot of time set aside for higher-level LC exams.

You certainly don't make as much as a full-time job during the 3 weeks - but you don't work as hard either. Both years I corrected I automatically got asked to correct again the following year (though didn't for various reasons) and am fairly confident I could be selected again in the future if I somehow needed to - once an examiner always an examiner!

m*pp*t

Do you happen to remember when you were told you'd gotten the job ionapaul? I've heard that they let you know in April but I dunno if that's just a rumour...