Is it true that the Pres are marked stricter?

Fergus_

Is it true? That the mocks are marked stricter than the JC?

Fad

Mocks are marked by companies or your teacher.

There is nothing regulating the marking.

Mock results are a vague indication of your preparedness at a particular subject at the time of your mocks.

You cannot rely on them.......

suitcasepink

Thats what people say but then again it depends on the corrector, our english was marked hard but our Irish was marked real easy for the pre (we compared with other classes who had diff correctors) so it depends
People say the Pre is meant to be marked harder anyway....

gaeilgebeo

NO NO NO!!

Luno

gaeilgebeo wrote: »

NO NO NO!!

gaeilgebeo

M&S* wrote: »

I correct the mocks for DEB and Examcraft. I also correct in the state exams and I hate seeing people write this absolute MYTH!

Mayoegian

I can guarantee you that the Mocks are marked harder! In the Junior Cert, I can't recall anyone not improving from their mocks. And M&S would ya ever stop worrying about that exam-take Soccymonster's advice about the furnace!:p

gaeilgebeo

Mayoegian wrote: »

I can guarantee you that the Mocks are marked harder! In the Junior Cert, I can't recall anyone not improving from their mocks. And M&S would ya ever stop worrying about that exam-take Soccymonster's advice about the furnace!:p

Are you a teacher/ examiner yourself seeing as you can "gauruntee" this?

Some students may find the mocks harder because they may not have had the course finished by the mocks and sometimes haven't studied as hard for the mocks as they would the real thing... They have over 3 months extra to revise from the time of the mocks. This is why students improve results from their mocks = simple reason really!;)

Again, the mocks are not marked harder than the real thing!

Colm!

gaeilgebeo, as an examiner, do you take out your anger at people who do extra questions by marking them lower? (I'm just wondering, I've been warned against doing extra questions as it pisses off examiners, just wondering if you actually do that)

patakadarragh

gaeilgebeo wrote: »

and sometimes haven't studied as hard for the mocks as they would the real thing...

Its the opposite for me and most of my friends really...we studied harder for the mocks.

Fad

Colm! wrote: »

gaeilgebeo, as an examiner, do you take out your anger at people who do extra questions by marking them lower? (I'm just wondering, I've been warned against doing extra questions as it pisses off examiners, just wondering if you actually do that)

I've only been told not to answer extra questions by a teacher once, he taught me classics and happens to be one of the most inconsiderate pigs on the face of this earth, no good teacher would spite you like that.

spurious

If you do extra questions, they are marked according to the marking scheme (no harder or easier) and then you are given the better or best of the marks.

I'd be more worried about having enough time left over that you could do extra questions.

Tommyrawr

my geography in the pres i got marked harder cause i did all the Questions and the examiner was scribbling at the end of mine =S then it got confused with my marks and gave me the wrong ones. It gave m2 79 but it was supposed to be 86%

gaeilgebeo

Colm! wrote: »

gaeilgebeo, as an examiner, do you take out your anger at people who do extra questions by marking them lower? (I'm just wondering, I've been warned against doing extra questions as it pisses off examiners, just wondering if you actually do that)

Absolutely not Colm! That would be unprofessional. Do remember that as a correctors we also have a chief examiner checking our corrections. Exams are corrected following a very rigid marking scheme. A corrector cannot just mark something easy or hard!:)

kevin12345

gaeilgebeo wrote: »

Absolutely not Colm! That would be unprofessional. Do remember that as a correctors we also have a chief examiner checking our corrections. Exams are corrected following a very rigid marking scheme. A corrector cannot just mark something easy or hard!:)

Do ye allow some leeway for answers or do they have to be word for word what the marking scheme says?