Marking mountain - encouragement needed

[JamesWebbSpaceTelescope]

marking is one of my most disliked aspects of the job and I put it off as much as I can. Which means today I have a marking mountain that I need to get through.

Words of encouragement please.

You can do it! What subject do you teach? I recommended adopting some time saving strategies in future. Things like marking grids with the success criteria printed out on them - that way you can tick the areas they’ve met and just highlight a target area. Live marking is a huge time saver. I genuinely don’t know how others teach without marking regularly - how do you know how much they’ve understood otherwise? (Not a dig, a genuine question!)

Science so the marking load isn’t as high as some other subjects. Most of my preps are self marking so I just have to keep on top of who has actually done the work.

This is end o f topic tests so I’m just going to have to get started and do it! And stop faffing about on here.

Do tests question by question rather than script by script... it'll go much faster

This is what I’m doing but it is still taking forever. (That might be the adhd talking)

I must be weird because I really like marking

I got most of it done and then gave up to go and see family.

Me too. Well not “like” it, but see the value in it!

You're weird

Thanks :)

Break down into manageable chunks. 5 at a time, then go and do something else.

Problem is going away and doing something else takes a long time before I settle again.

I see the value in it but still hate doing it!

I cannot do the 5 at a time. I have to work in big numbers. When I mark exams, it's 20 of the long one or 50 or 75 of another as the target before I stop... otherwise it takes aeons

Markolepsy. Extreme tiredness brought on by excessive marking.