ProfessorLayton1
No worries. It's quite a big change thia year even for us!
When you say a marking scheme ( as a person with science background can't get my head around this in English) how do you achieve that in English - is there a strict guidance to the person who is marking the papers?
- before i explain, i am simplifying the objectives etc for clarity
Each question has assessment objectives which look at certain areas and then descriptors (simple, clear, perceptive)
So, for example language paper 1 Q 2 is analysing language (words, phrases, sentences, devices like similes).
The marker will have done training on what each band looks like (what a simple response looks like, clear etc...)
Then thry'll go through and identify where the candidate has answered the question, where the relevant ideas are, have they used examples, have they used subject terminology etc.
And then based on best fit it goes into a band.
Langauge paper 1 q3 looks at structure (e.g. narrative style, sequenve of events, development of themes, use if flash backs etc)
And the examiner will do the same as Q2. But if a student has talked about Language on q3 then their comments aren't relevant to the question so they don't get marks.
So when you ask for a remark - someone checks these rules are applied and also checks them clerically ( all questions are marked and correctly added)
Yes.
They'll check that if the examiner has said it is band 2 that it fits the criteria given / makes sure that if the examiner has sais theres no terminology that there really is 'no terminology'.
On literature, students get capped at band 2 if they don't talk about the whole texts. So if an answer has been capped at band 2, a review would check that there's definitely no whole text comments.
What the review doesn't do is say 'it's a band 4 but personally i'd move that from the bottom of band 4 to the middle'.