rainbowtrout wrote: » Hard to know how many applied to mark. Everyone had last summer off. Some may not have returned. Given that it’s going to be taxed and mileage isn’t maybe it’s that high to compensate.
RealJohn wrote: » Well one example is hardly indicative of the overall trend, but I mark the same subject at JC as a colleague. I’m one of the more senior examiners and was not surprised to be given higher level leaving cert in my primary subject this year. My colleague only got the standby list at ordinary level in the same subject thozgh, and he’s got a good number of years behind him too, so if that is a general trend, I doubt they’re that short of experienced examiners.
rainbowtrout wrote: » Depends on the subject really. That and I've been marking a long time myself. I've seen countless experienced examiners take a summer off, and then never return.
pandoraj09 wrote: » I've corrected for 32 years. Never knew what 3 months "holidays" was like. Not correcting this year. May go back. Don't think I will. Money was very good though.
am_zarathustra wrote: » The move online knocked a few of the older teachers out too, they just didn't like it and didn't see the point in learning, fair enough too!
RealJohn wrote: » Seems odd. It was utterly seamless, in my opinion, and massively cut down on the sort of paperwork and messing around I imagine the older examiners hated.
rainbowtrout wrote: » The paperwork wouldn't be seen as onerous for anyone doing it year in year out. They know the system.
am_zarathustra wrote: » Jesus, you've done your service there. Would you have seen a change in standard over that time, it's a serious overview. I always wonder why the department aren't interested in people with that kind of service history and their opinions[/QUOT The standard has dropped significantly. This year's paper, LCHL Irish, was so easy. Lovely general essay on "Big problems today". I remember a title years ago that roughly went "the lack of equality in the distribution of wealth is the main cause of unrest in today's society". The literature questions now resemble Ordinary level eg An maith leat an dán? Tabhair dhá chúis. My 8 year old granddaughter could produce a good answer to that. There are 2 long comprehensions on paper 2. Years ago students had to write the answers in their own words but now all they have to do is to copy the sentences from the passage. That "word-matching" alone can give them 70 marks out of 600. In the Oral they have to read one of 5 poems that they have 2 years to prepare for and they can bring in their own copies of the poems with phonetic spellings into the exam. That's 35 marks on a plate for them. Another 5 marks at the start of the oral for saying what their name is etc. So 110 marks for showing no real ability at all. The Aural is the only part that really shows their ability in the language.
Random sample wrote: » Has anyone started yet? Are there less Examiners or less papers per examiner? How has the conference worked online?
finicio wrote: » We had 3 conference days, finished yesterday. First 20 to correct for this evening. Start properly Tuesday then. way less papers for OL Maths. Roughly a 1/3 of a normal year. And less again for Paper 2
finicio wrote: » Ya, that was clarified. 150e extra for every 25 papers(pro rata). I'm assuming less markers this year as we should still get approx 300 papers they said. I think I did 400 two years ago. The online marking is a lot quicker too.
spurious wrote: » In 2019 we were promised a premium for taking extra papers (JC) and never got it.
am_zarathustra wrote: » God if I still get 300 that's a nice bit of extra pay, starting tomorrow so we will see. I'd have imagined they tried to use correctors with experience given the remote nature of the training, interesting they still couldn't get them. I'd have found it hard my first year doing it online, people are so helpful in person and it's great to meet the group. Hope it doesn't become the norm, though I suppose it would suit a lot of people.
Finally got my PFO letter from the SEC
Good job you weren’t sitting by the phone!
