Using Red Pen For Highlighting Points?

Pen Rua

I usually mark in question numbers using red pen. Will that be okay in the Junior Cert? I did so in the Mocks, and nothing was said but that was the Mocks.

For example, and English question would be;

Question 1 - Reading
1. (Answer here....)
2. (Answer here....)

And so forth. Would it just be safer to use a black pen? I know it may seem very silly but we weren't given any guidelines or rules to abide by...

AtomicKoala

Use red pen, no trouble at all. Just dont start ticking stuff

Bazinga_N

Pen Rua wrote: »

I usually mark in question numbers using red pen. Will that be okay in the Junior Cert? I did so in the Mocks, and nothing was said but that was the Mocks.

For example, and English question would be;

Question 1 - Reading
1. (Answer here....)
2. (Answer here....)

And so forth. Would it just be safer to use a black pen? I know it may seem very silly but we weren't given any guidelines or rules to abide by...

I would recommend leaving your Red and Green pens at home!! There the colours the examiners use.

I usually write the way you do (as in red for numbering, bullets, titles, etc.) but for my exams what I do is swap Red for Blue and use Black everywhere else. It actually looks alright as well. Good Luck!

spurious

Please don't use red or green pen anywhere on your exams - they are the colours used by examiners and Advising Examiners.

Generally, there is no need to be highlighting anyway. The correctors know which is the question number and where your answer is.

If you MUST use different colours, use blue and black biro.

Hannahbanana97

What?
Just use a black pen ?

spurious

Use black or blue.

Pen Rua

spurious wrote: »

Please don't use red or green pen anywhere on your exams - they are the colours used by examiners and Advising Examiners.

Generally, there is no need to be highlighting anyway. The correctors know which is the question number and where your answer is.

If you MUST use different colours, use blue and black biro.

Okay, thank you! I just wanted to be totally sure. Thanks a million.

dalta5billion

I highlight my answers in Maths - but nothing else. My rough work can be kind of messy - best advice I was ever given. I don't think the examiners will be using highlighters.

spurious

More marks go for the method than the answer.
I still don't see the need for highlighters.
Why not just write ANS or QED and box in your answer?

dalta5billion

spurious wrote: »

More marks go for the method than the answer.
I still don't see the need for highlighters.
Why not just write ANS or QED and box in your answer?

Just for the ease of the examiner. My calculations tend to be a bit wild and hard to understand (not in a good way) and the examiner might be in a better mood when I do actually get a question wrong to go back through my mess.

I guess I should say that doesn't work for everyone, if you're neat already it'll do nothing for you. The box works well too, but being an over-thinker means I panic when I mess up the spelling or equals sign and my mind thinks of all the ways it could be misinterpreted. So a highlighter works better for me.

spurious

As an examiner myself, I find different colours all over the paper to be very distracting/annoying.
Neat writing with spaces between answers works for me.

dalta5billion

spurious wrote: »

As an examiner myself, I find different colours all over the paper to be very distracting/annoying.
Neat writing with spaces between answers works for me.

I agree with you very much, but I wouldn't go highlighting everything, and to be honest if you saw my work without the answers highlighted you'd probably agree!

Bazinga_N

Have a small question regarding red pen... In accounting for Business I was always told to use a mixture of colours (red, blue & black) for my different headings and now I'm so used to it I don't know if I could stop!!

Does anyone know if this is ok, my teacher said that we shouldn't do it anywhere else on the paper but she thinks we should for the accounts. Just want to ask for others opinions?

Junokevv

Bazinga_N wrote: »

Have a small question regarding red pen... In accounting for Business I was always told to use a mixture of colours (red, blue & black) for my different headings and now I'm so used to it I don't know if I could stop!!

Does anyone know if this is ok, my teacher said that we shouldn't do it anywhere else on the paper but she thinks we should for the accounts. Just want to ask for others opinions?

I was told that too and if you're used to it do it!

Even if you use red throughout the paper it might annoy the examiner a little but it's a minute detail and there's no use stressing over it.

spurious

It's not a minute detail at all.

NEVER use red or green for numbers, whatever about titles, though again, there is absolutely no need for any colour other than blue or black to be used.

Bazinga_N

spurious wrote: »

It's not a minute detail at all.

NEVER use red or green for numbers, whatever about titles, though again, there is absolutely no need for any colour other than blue or black to be used.

I know it's just according to my teacher ''Marks are given for neatness in Accounting, and having your titles and whatnot clearly differentiated by colour will make them stand out and look neat''

spurious

Or you could underline them in black or blue.

Anyway, make sure there are no red or green numbers floating around the page.

whiteandlight

Bazinga_N wrote: »

spurious wrote: »

It's not a minute detail at all.

NEVER use red or green for numbers, whatever about titles, though again, there is absolutely no need for any colour other than blue or black to be used.

I know it's just according to my teacher ''Marks are given for neatness in Accounting, and having your titles and whatnot clearly differentiated by colour will make them stand out and look neat''

Just don't use red or green, any other colour is fine provided its readable

Bazinga_N

spurious wrote: »

Or you could underline them in black or blue.

Anyway, make sure there are no red or green numbers floating around the page.

Yea, I always use strictly blue and black in exams it's just in this one area. Thanks.

if832uspx4eogt

Oh I never knew that.

I will write in blue, and have headings, numbers, quotes etc. in black.

Thanks for that tip or else I would have been using red all over the exam!