Teachers out there...who corrects so many 11+ exams?

[hardboiled]

So the schools DS is applying to have an average of 600 or even 700 exams to correct in a few days. On of them said they would already be conducting scholarship interviews three days after the exam for the highest scoring! So I ask myself...who corrects all these papers? An army of elves during the night? Btw, they're not multiple choice sheets to be fed into a computer. These are fully written exams, including essays etc.

Yours truly ignorant.

[Ladymuck]

They'll prioritise the papers, and marking will take a couple of weeks. Essays will be done last usually after minimum maths/reasoning marks have been reached. They start interviews after a few days, but interviews will go on for 2-3 weeks, and just because you aren't one of the first called doesn't lesson your chances of a place or scholarship ime.

[trinity0097]

I doubt in depth marking takes place initially, instead a brief look to put into the fab, good, average, rubbish piles. That is what I would do for English essay writing. For maths, marking 600 papers at that age doesn't take that long. I can do about 150-200 papers in an evening if I try hard, so if a few teachers at the school mark about 600 each you can have maths results the next day.

[hardboiled]

Wow...truly impressed. So basically they get corrected by the school teachers, they can do it in a few days and probably start with a rough screening...
ok, thanks for that!

[camptownraces]

Teachers will probably have 48 hours max to turn the papers round, with Heads of Dept checking the marking. The teachers will also have to teach a normal timetable on these subsequent school days.