Examiner pay per paper

[Julyjones73]

Hello, just wondering how much GCSE examiners are paid per paper they mark.

Could you include which subject & exam board the pay you mention is for?

Thanks :)

It works out about a fiver a script for GCSE, I have marked for two boards.

Ok thanks, is this for english scripts?

Hello could you send me your email address?

Oops wrong place, how do i delete that post above?!

Many examiners do not mark a whole paper: they might, for instance mark questions 14 & 15a in 4000 copies of paper 2 Biology GCSE, AQA specification 9838. You may find this difficult to stitch together to get a figure for the remuneration paid for a whole paper or subject. Mostly there’s more than one spec per subject per awarding body.

If you are looking for work, it will be simpler to ask the awarding bodies.

Ok thanks!

Or even more usefully, ask people the approx. rate per hour the pay equates to, and the min hours needed to be done?

How qualified do you have to be to mark maths papers? Could I as a non-teacher but with a maths degree mark GCSEs? (Not that I want to at the moment).

Can't help with rate per hour, but the work is quite pressured.

Even a few years ago the allocation of papers to an examiner had to be completed and returned to the Awarding Body within 3 weeks. If you returned your papers a week early, you would be entreated to help out by taking another batch. Examiners who were working as teachers would probably have been teaching a full timetable during the 3 week period.

[I rather suspect that many maths papers are marked in South Asia nowadays; for some questions they may even be using artificial intelligence.]