Outsourcing Mock Exams

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Does anyone's school outsource the marking of mock exams? Obviously it should improve workload/does it improve accuracy and predictions?

Who would grade them? Board examiners? Would they even be allowed to do that?

Also, and probably more importantly: who would pay for this? Schools are under enormous financial pressure and currently teachers are grading mocks “for free” and results are moderated within departments, again “for free”.

The idea sounds great, but nobody would pay for this service.

But mock exam mocking is hugely useful for teachers to find out where their classes have strengths and weaknesses. Reading someone else’s anaylsis just wouldn’t cut it.

People do pay for it. There are people advertising on twitter taking bookings to mark mocks next year.

My school wouldn't do it but the mock marking workload had increased so hugely with changes to GCSEs that for some schools it is seen as the only way to manage the workload, and it also removes the bias of teachers marking their own students' work (although you can get round this by cross marking)

In the past students did 1 or 3 English exams depending on ability. Now they all do 4, which are between 1 hour and 45 to 2 hours 15 mins long. If a teacher has 2 year 11 classes doing all 4 mocks that is a huge amount of hours spent marking.....60 x 4 papers which take between 10 mins to 30 mins per paper depending on the speed and experience of the teacher......