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Reviewing Leaving Cert Papers

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    #32
    Slow Show
    Registered Users Posts: 4,248 ✭✭✭Slow Show


    oncex wrote: »
    found the whole thing strange, got marked down by the chief examiner in histiory, my english wasnt counted up right. Biology was marked so hard, even if my answers were right they werent said in the exact same way

    Found that a bit too, the marking scheme had amino acids as 'units of protein' and I said 'basic units of protein' and got 0, which I found odd. For a lot of other questions like that the same thing happened in both Biology and Chemisty.

    I've heard so many stories of papers being added up incorrectly, ten marks were omitted from my Irish paper but I still got an A1 so it's obviously not worth making a fuss about but it's just sloppy work like, these marks are making the difference between people going to college this year or next year.


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    #33
    HPMS
    Registered Users Posts: 141 ✭✭HPMS


    My music was marked 4 separate times!! Eventually by the Head Examiner (black writing)...it was a bit strange to see red pen, two separate greens and a black pen all over my script! Each time they brought me down in marks...went from 96 to 92 in listening paper! But still got the A1 so doesn't make that much of a difference!

    Maths paper I was marked twice, same marks each time. That's really all I noticed! Everything else seemed to be in order. Delighted with my Irish and English essay - 95 in both!


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    #34
    spurious
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Education Moderators Posts: 27,143 CMod ✭✭✭✭spurious


    Slow Show wrote: »
    I've heard so many stories of papers being added up incorrectly, ten marks were omitted from my Irish paper but I still got an A1 so it's obviously not worth making a fuss about but it's just sloppy work like, these marks are making the difference between people going to college this year or next year.

    A mistot shouldn't affect a college place. Those errors are rectified quickly. What takes longer is the full re-checks.

    I used to hate the totting day when correcting. You would be boggle-eyed after five hours of totting the totals of hundreds of papers and then you'd have to write your report and get it all sent off the same day. Don't know how anyone does it more than once or twice. Horrid job.


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    #35
    oncex
    Closed Accounts Posts: 505 ✭✭✭oncex


    spurious wrote: »
    A mistot shouldn't affect a college place. Those errors are rectified quickly. What takes longer is the full re-checks.

    I used to hate the totting day when correcting. You would be boggle-eyed after five hours of totting the totals of hundreds of papers and then you'd have to write your report and get it all sent off the same day. Don't know how anyone does it more than once or twice. Horrid job.


    It might if your 5 points off though. May I ask how I go about rectifying a mistot? Should be up a grade.


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    #36
    spurious
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Education Moderators Posts: 27,143 CMod ✭✭✭✭spurious


    oncex wrote: »
    It might if your 5 points off though. May I ask how I go about rectifying a mistot? Should be up a grade.

    You tell the teacher supervising the viewing of the papers. They have a special form for totting errors.


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    #37
    eoinoc2509
    Registered Users Posts: 44 ✭eoinoc2509


    2 marks off a b1 in ag ec (forgot to put in tonnes and kg when labelling my graph worth 1 mark each)
    4 marks off b2 in biology
    got 88% in my ag science project though


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