Deferred exam papers

Random sample · 30-06-2022 10:00am #1

I wonder will the papers for these go online? They didn’t in 2019, and I don’t know how many kids sat it that year, but I would guess there are more sitting them this year.

LW2018 · 30-06-2022 4:44pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058252459/deferred-exam-papers

I hope so! Surely if someone sits the paper they would be allowed to bring out the long questions / section they are not submitting and it would be in the 'public domain' then.

Bananaleaf · 01-07-2022 12:09am

I'm superintending the deferred exams and we have been told not to allow any papers out with students, even if they stay until the very end. Everything has to be sent back to them in the stationery boxes.

Treppen · 01-07-2022 1:55pm

They probably don't want comparisons so soon, i.e. " the deferred pair was unfairly harder... talk to Joe Duffy...".

Could you take a sneaky photo once all papers are collected? 😁

LW2018 · 01-07-2022 4:52pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119274138#Comment_119274138

That is so frustrating? Are there many where you are superintending sitting the exams? Did they go with a neutral / localised area? I think that means that we won't be seeing the papers, unless people write up what had come up if they sat these exams.

Bananaleaf · 01-07-2022 10:29pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119276967#Comment_119276967

There is one centre per county. I'm not sure if there are exceptions to that (you would imagine there would be in Dublin) but I am the only centre in my county.

I've the bones of a centre roll but it isn't at all accurate. It's only day 3 and I've had less than expected, more than expected and completely different to what's on the centre roll present themselves for exams. To be fair, that is more to do with the turnaround time between LC and deferred LC being so short - far be it from me to defend the SEC, but the messiness of this one is kinda out of their hands.

Not many students for examinations, no. Most I am expected to have on any given day is 6 but again, who knows really. It is changing by the day. They are all treated as externals and all have official correspondance with them from SEC so no hope of anyone taking advantage

Distribution hub for collection of exams is ..... wait for it .... Cornamaddy. Exams on a Saturday and a collection date on a Sunday makes it quite the undertaking, but even taking into consideration the heavy tax - I should still do well out of it. A far better gig than correcting - shorter timeframe and probably better paid.

rainbowtrout · 01-07-2022 11:32pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119278188#Comment_119278188

How did you get it? Did you do supervision in June? Did they contact you and offer it to you?

Bananaleaf · 01-07-2022 11:43pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119278444#Comment_119278444

Yes, I superintend in June. In June I got a JC centre about 15k from home so I had contacted them to tell them I was available for extra work on account of sorta needing the money. Not much to be made out of a JC centre that close to home. I wasn't even thinking of the deferred exams when I put myself forward, I was hoping to get the tail end of a LC centre.

I suppose they couldn't advertise the deferred exams like a normal appointment as they had no way of knowing if it would even be needed. Even now, they have not finalised the full schedule as they are just getting word now of students who would have missed exams in the final week

LW2018 · 04-07-2022 1:42pm

Received a reply to an email regarding the publication of the exam papers, but when special arrangements are made, they retain the papers for other contingency purposes that may arise in the future!