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So the SAT's results are not only late but appear to be inaccurate.......

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VanillaPumpkin · 10/07/2008 13:50

I have just been helping out at my dd's school. They have the year 6 results back and are having to appeal a significant proportion of them as they appear to be inaccurately marked. What a huge waste of their time and resources. What a mess this company has made this year. And I heard they have the contract for five years. Gah!
Has anyone else had this problem?

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QueenMeabhOfConnaught · 10/07/2008 14:54

I haven't heard that ds1's school has had their results back yet.

fatzak · 10/07/2008 15:02

I was due to mark for them this year but pulled out even before the standardisation meeting. The communication was dreadful, they were calling asking the same questions time and time again, sent me contract for wrong papers then spoke to DH thinking he was marking for them!!!
I'm just not surprised at all, I was waiting for this to happen. A lot of schools may get the results next week, but as most office staff are striking Wed/Thurs, the children may not get them back.

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VanillaPumpkin · 10/07/2008 15:40

One of the ladies is a marker and usually gets the papers in plenty of time. She was not able to complete her usual allocation of marking as the papers were so late getting to her .

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VanillaPumpkin · 10/07/2008 15:41

lady's ??

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VanillaPumpkin · 10/07/2008 15:43

Where are the pedants? How should I write that? One of the teachers is a marker = one of the ladies is. I was right the first time. Was I???

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TheFallenMadonna · 10/07/2008 15:44

I declined a contract this year.

herbietea · 10/07/2008 15:47

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VanillaPumpkin · 10/07/2008 15:55

It is an American company iirc.
The fact there are two experienced markers on this thread who did not mark this year speaks volumes doesn't it?

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SorenLorensen · 10/07/2008 15:59

If a school cocked up this badly it would probably be put in special measures...

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VanillaPumpkin · 10/07/2008 16:07

Exactly.

The man hours our school has spent already to prep the appeals so far is ridiculous. Three members of staff, including the Head who certainly all have better things to do at the end of term.....

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TheFallenMadonna · 10/07/2008 16:10

It's such a tight turnaround with the marking that if the papers arrive to the markers late, the results will be late back to schools. And I think the level setting in some subjects wasn't done in time this year either, so papers are being returned with raw scores and not levels?

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