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.

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.

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.

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!

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.