Teachers & exam marking people - advice please!

[Hixxy1]

Hi all,

Have just been having a heated discussion with my soon to be 16 yr old on how unreadable her handwriting is.

She's changed her handwriting fairly recently and now writes in a lovely looking cursive script, however it seems to be a bit style-over-substance. I find it hard to read when she's showing me her creative writing or her art GCSE annotation for example, and even she struggled with a few words when she was reading something out to me recently!

Academically, she's really bright and all of her grades are reflecting that at the moment, but if I struggle to read it and SHE struggles to read it, surely she's doing herself a disservice when it comes to the teacher or exam paper marker (I can't think what the word for that person is!), trying to read it.

Teachers and exammy people - am i worrying unecessarily or would you not put as much effort into something that was difficult to read?! (I know which side I'd be on, and there's no judgement here whatsoever!)

FWIW she doesn't seem to think it's a problem and people who are grading her will just know what she's written! * *

Urgh - teenagers!

That writing looks fine to me . I could read it without having to try and decipher anything.
Now, trying to read the handwriting from some of the doctors I worked with....that's a different story !

Haha, that writing is lovely, no issues with that at all. I wish you'd posted it first OP.

Aww, feel bad for my daughter now! We had a right ding dong about it earlier! 😆 Thanks for the reassurance, all!

Please ! That's extremely good and legible handwriting (shame about the content but that wasn't your question!)

Having just marked 50 prelims (mocks) and as an examiner with over a decade of senior level experience - I'd be CHEERING to see a script like that! Nothing to worry about at all. But what others said too - handwriting ALWAYS deteriorates through an exam, particularly if the pupil has been experimenting with a new style. See it frequently!

I used to get asked to transcribe some work after subject teachers had marked internal exams at fe college. Students would lose marks if work was illegible and external markers have more of a problem as they are unfamiliar with a particular student’s handwriting and aren’t motivated to spend extra time decoding. With your daughter, I would suggest she closes the top of her a’s and that will help.The rest seemed fairly legible but your photo wasn’t very clear so quite hard to see.

That's an uncalled for catty remark, I don't mark English so can't comment on the content but if tou wanted to be helpful you could make a suggestion or even say nothing