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English Marking Schemes?

  • 21-02-2012 4:45pm
    #1
    Chainsawpanda
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3 ✭


    Hi, I've got an honest question about how the English exam is marked . I got a fairly disappointing result in my mocks and my English teacher refuses to tell me why. I just want to know what it is exactly that constitutes, let's say, a 9 out of 10, and what exactly separates this answer from a perfect one or an 8 out of 10. I would really like to know for future reference so any help would be greatly appreciated.


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  • #2
    spurious
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Education Moderators Posts: 27,316 CMod ✭✭✭✭spurious


    Here's last year's Junior Cert. English marking scheme.

    I hope that helps.

    It's a bit counter-productive of your teacher to leave you without direction as to what you can do to improve your mark.


  • #3
    Chainsawpanda
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3 ✭Chainsawpanda


    I have viewed that marking scheme and it seemed incredibly vague. Is there any more specific ways in which the exam is marked? I mean it doesn't seem like a very objective assessment of a student, more like what the examiner interprets as 'good use' of mechanics, expression etc. This is kind of my issue with my paper as well. I wasn't told what answers deserved more marks than others and why/why not.

    In terms of my teacher, we hadn't even covered media studies at all before the exam, we glanced at the layout of the paper once in class and were given the rule of thumb that 5 marks = 1 paragraph. This actually lost me a lot of marks when I did not follow it exactly (as I believed quality>quantity) and even when looking at sample answers for previous exam questions I noticed that there can be only a few lines written for a 10 mark question. Is my teacher telling me to write too much or should I follow his advice for the actual exam?


  • #4
    xfabgalx
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 169 ✭✭xfabgalx


    Chainsawpanda wrote: »
    I have viewed that marking scheme and it seemed incredibly vague. Is there any more specific ways in which the exam is marked? I mean it doesn't seem like a very objective assessment of a student, more like what the examiner interprets as 'good use' of mechanics, expression etc. This is kind of my issue with my paper as well. I wasn't told what answers deserved more marks than others and why/why not.

    In terms of my teacher, we hadn't even covered media studies at all before the exam, we glanced at the layout of the paper once in class and were given the rule of thumb that 5 marks = 1 paragraph. This actually lost me a lot of marks when I did not follow it exactly (as I believed quality>quantity) and even when looking at sample answers for previous exam questions I noticed that there can be only a few lines written for a 10 mark question. Is my teacher telling me to write too much or should I follow his advice for the actual exam?


    We follow the 5 marks a paragraph rule and its pretty simple to write it. nearly all questions on exam are 15 marks each so your pretty much writing a page for every question.


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