Mocks

Change to work practices should be agreed upon by a majority consensus according to an ASTI directive. So hopefully the issue of correcting your own mocks was discussed and agreed upon before you were instructed to correct your own mocks.

As Treppen said, correcting tests and exams is really part of the job.

As with all house exams, having a reasonable deadline is what is important. We had 3 weeks from the last mock exam to have everything done, which is generally what we have for all our house exams.

Hard to believe more than one poster would willingly correct mocks but baulk at inputting results online subsequently ( 1-5% more time ?!) Thankfully my school is one of the majority where this is a hill we are prepared to die on ( i.e. giving up most every spare waking moment for a month or so to correct mocks )

Students in our school pay €80 for their mocks. This covers the cost of the papers as far as I know. They’re corrected by us, their teachers. We don’t receive extra pay for this.

If you’re told exams are corrected externally then they probably are. Most likely your son’s teacher flicked through the papers upon their return to be able to provide some sort of feedback.

you’re making 2 assumptions there - 1) that the teacher was correcting and getting paid for it and 2) that they were correcting in class.
As to the 39% it would be malpractice to round it up, especially in the mocks. You’d risk the student approaching the June exam with the attitude that sure they did f all for the mocks and passed it!

Definitely not, 40% gives hope and security, 39% gives the hint