GCSE exam markers please

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I have twins, so they will take their GCSEs at the same time. What is the chance that the same examiner will mark both their papers please ? Will their candidate numbers be consecutive ? Is that even relevant ?

Your DTs will have consecutive exam numbers unless there is another child with the same surname at their school with a first name that is alphabetically in between them both.
For essay type subjects there tend to be similarities between students at the same school anyway due to the way they have been taught, so it's unlikely to be an issue.

This is my daughter. Can you zoom in to the script scan?

Yes, although it’s a bit clunky on the software. The marker will read it, don’t worry! A student will never lose marks for handwriting (or gain marks either!). The last batch I did I only escalated one because I really couldn’t read it and that was partly because I was tired and the effort was too much for me. But someone else will have managed it. At least the small ones are neat, but it’s really fatiguing when it’s very small. If she could do it a bit bigger the examiner will be very grateful!

You can zoom in but it makes it difficult to mark as you can't then see it all on one page and you have to scroll backwards and forwards to read it. With the best will in the world when you've got a lot of a scripts to make your heart does sink when it comes up on the screen and you know it's going to take twice as long to mark

If possible I'd encourage her to write in a normal size

You shouldn’t ever mark your own students questions as you will have declared connections to any schools so the exam board don’t allocate your school’s exams to you