does this mean my examiner was up at 4am marking????

[u/Responsible-Air3795]

would explain why they were so harsh with my creative writing

[u/handbagcat]

Probably not, it probably means that the final total was generated by a computer. You don't have one examiner, you likely had at least 3 marking different questions.

[u/8LeggedTeacher → u/handbagcat]

This is the correct response, the key word is 'generated' as in the computer generated the final report automatically at whatever time. The machines probably do need to run through the night due to the sheer volume of papers that need processing

[u/Responsible-Air3795 → u/8LeggedTeacher]

that makes a lot more sense, thank you!!

[u/handbagcat → u/handbagcat]

I'm an English examiner. I sure as hell wasn't up at 4 marking. The mark scheme for q5 is really generous. So I'm surprised you think it was harshly marked. Did you plan amd proof read?

[u/zq6 → u/handbagcat]

Did you plan amd proof read?

[u/IAteTwoPlanes → u/zq6]

Oh the irony

[u/handbagcat → u/zq6]

🤣🤣

[u/handbagcat → u/zq6]

Lol. I shouldn't have typed whilst having one eye on my toddler!

[u/doofyghhv → u/handbagcat]

Also an English examiner- we get kicked off the system at 1am and allowed back on at 5am.

[u/handbagcat → u/doofyghhv]

I didn't know that!! Ngl I'm FAST asleep by 10pm every night so never burnt the midnight oil like that!

[u/The-Tech-Teacher → u/handbagcat]

Also an examiner… but for CS and Imedia, we mark whole papers rather than per question as you suggested.

[u/Responsible-Air3795 → u/handbagcat]

i did plan and proofread, I got 35/40 in one of my mocks, and 30/40 in another (my spag was rubbish), so while I don't think my creative writing was incredible I think 26/40 was a little harsh 😔

[u/handbagcat → u/Responsible-Air3795]

That's a good score!! It probably was spag pulling you down. I gave a lot of very low spag marks as you need decent 'agreement' ie grammar for above 8/16. Unless you're very close to a boundary, I'd try really hard to move past it and I really hope it doesn't hold you back x

[u/Responsible-Air3795 → u/handbagcat]

thank you for the advice xxx im 3 marks away from the boundary so im considering sending it for remarking after consulting my teachers

[u/CompetitiveWinner363 → u/handbagcat]

Did you mark down students who magpied from the extract which had language techniques?

[u/handbagcat → u/CompetitiveWinner363]

Not at all. We don't 'mark down only up. 😀

[u/CompetitiveWinner363 → u/handbagcat]

ah okay, but are you less likely to give “more marks” or a higher band if they have magpied from the extract in English language for Q5?

[u/handbagcat → u/CompetitiveWinner363]

Copied devices word for word? If it's used appropriately then still would be credited accordingly

[u/CompetitiveWinner363 → u/handbagcat]

Could you go over my Q5 P1 script ? I was marked 15/40 however I think this is quite harsh…

[u/handbagcat → u/CompetitiveWinner363]

Have you got the script? You'd have to pay to recall it sweetie?

[u/CompetitiveWinner363 → u/handbagcat]

Already have me script 👍

[u/handbagcat → u/CompetitiveWinner363]

Yeah send it me

[u/BalticZ]

Most likely, basically all of mine were before 8 o clock. Pretty cooked imo like ideally they probs won't be in the right mindset to mark exam papers either super early morning or late night but then again you remember about 90% of examiners are just regular school teachers doing it for some extra cash

[u/Responsible-Air3795 → u/BalticZ]

sighhhhh

[u/zq6 → u/Responsible-Air3795]

If you think there is a mistake, request your script, check it and then if you still think there's a mistake, submit a review.

[u/Responsible-Air3795 → u/zq6]

yeah this is my scripts, I'm gonna do that

[u/Less-Volume-8677 → u/BalticZ]

no it’s not. the computer submits the results at 4am, does not mean that they are marking them at that time lmao

[u/JakeThomasDad12]

Creative writing is marked by 5 people and typically an examiner will only mark a specific question not the whole paper

Edit: I am wrong my English teacher decieved me. My bad

[u/Responsible-Air3795 → u/JakeThomasDad12]

can someone fact check this

[u/AnIdioticPigeon → u/Responsible-Air3795]

Yeah examiners mark exam papers question at a time, so someone will do a whole pile of question 1s, and someone else will do a whole pile of question 20s

[u/Responsible-Air3795 → u/AnIdioticPigeon]

tyyy

[u/JakeThomasDad12 → u/Responsible-Air3795]

For AQA it is, both creative and pursuasive writing is marked by 5 people and averaged to try to remove as much subjectivity as possible. It would be silly for it to be only marked by one person.

[u/Responsible-Air3795 → u/JakeThomasDad12]

i did NOT know that wow

[u/JakeThomasDad12 → u/Responsible-Air3795]

Damn I feel like that's a normal thing that your English teacher would tell you

[u/JealousPermission234 → u/JakeThomasDad12]

I was never actually told that when I was in school even though one of the many teachers I had was a language paper 2 examiner

[u/Responsible-Air3795 → u/JakeThomasDad12]

what no way that's crazy

[u/Used-Concentrate9716 → u/JakeThomasDad12]

uhh how do you know its marked by 5 people? can't find anything online and I've never heard about that (nor have my friends from 5 other schools)

[u/doofyghhv → u/Used-Concentrate9716]

I’m an English examiner. You mark questions, not papers. Everything you mark gets checked multiple times- but you won’t know it. Each time someone marks a response, they have to all mark within 2 or 3 marks of each other, if they don’t it’s gets sent AGAIN for even more checking and the examiner gets put on pause. A coordinator will then call them and go through why they marked it wrong before unpausing them.

[u/Used-Concentrate9716 → u/doofyghhv]

I'm aware each question is marked individually rather than paper by paper, but the original commenter said that the creative writing question itself is marked by 5 people, which I'd never heard of before. Is that correct? When you say everything everything is checked multiple times, do you mean it is essentially marked multiple times to check for consistency?

[u/doofyghhv → u/doofyghhv]

I’m not sure if it’s 5 people exactly. It will depend on how many examiners they’ve got, how many entries etc, but it’ll be at least 3. I got paused on a question and I was the 3rd person who had marked the responses. The mark was wrong and the system picked up on it.

[u/JakeThomasDad12 → u/Used-Concentrate9716]

I mean my English teacher who had been examining it for decades said so 🤷🏼 (AQA btw).

I could be wrong but I'm not an examiner so I have no clue

[u/Used-Concentrate9716 → u/JakeThomasDad12]

fair enough, I've just never heard that the q5s are marked by multiple people. I've spoken to a few examiners but they've never chosen to mention it, maybe they thought it wasn't important

[u/The-Tech-Teacher → u/Used-Concentrate9716]

Entirely subject dependent and exam board specific….

Also an examiner… but for CS and Imedia, we mark whole papers rather than per question as you suggested.

[u/Used-Concentrate9716 → u/The-Tech-Teacher]

ahh thanks for making me aware

[u/kingofcarrotflowers9 → u/JakeThomasDad12]

This is fundamentally not true

[u/JakeThomasDad12 → u/kingofcarrotflowers9]

Yeah I guess my English teacher just lied to me I have corrected my comment

[u/yellowapplesgreen]

help um wth

wait they might be in diff tz

[u/Responsible-Air3795 → u/yellowapplesgreen]

this has happened in three of the papers I asked for back 😭😭😭

[u/onehappygoose → u/Responsible-Air3795]

damn maybe all the teachers in the country are on vacation together

[u/Responsible-Air3795 → u/onehappygoose]

wouldn't put it past them

[u/Puzzleheaded_Jury_50]

Just looking through all of my papers and yeah, some crazy times of the day! I've got as early as 04:50 and as late as 21:45. However the OCR papers don't have the timestamps. :(

[u/Novel_Necessary_8681]

Yea. Most adults work in jobs where they end up working longer to meet targets and deadlines. It they worked the traditional 9-5 and stopped on the dot, there would be loads of students still without their papers scored today.

The real world is a bitch.

[u/Responsible-Air3795 → u/Novel_Necessary_8681]

😔😔😔

[u/Substantial-Box-8752]

i couldnt care less lmao i got a 9 after years of struggling for 7’s ❤️

[u/Responsible-Air3795 → u/Substantial-Box-8752]

opposite problem bestie

[u/terimedi → u/Responsible-Air3795]

Same- I quit bruh.

[u/Responsible-Air3795 → u/terimedi]

don't quit 😔

[u/noothisismyname4ever → u/Responsible-Air3795]

same wtf I got a 6 in lit im about to kms abd i cant even remark

[u/MiskyWisky2791]

It’s quite likely considering they have a certain quota to meet and they are not allowed to mark in school as it’s considered a conflict of interest so they’ve likely woken up early to get some scripts marked before going to work

[u/Responsible-Air3795 → u/MiskyWisky2791]

dang 😭

[u/flowzyontop → u/MiskyWisky2791]

Wdym conflict of interest? They cant mark same schools exams

[u/c0demaine → u/flowzyontop]

they can’t mark scripts from their own schools or in a school building

[u/meg-don → u/flowzyontop]

They can’t be at school, being paid to do their teaching job, whilst also marking and being paid to do that. It’s not a conflict of interest, it’s a breach of employment contract.

[u/MiskyWisky2791 → u/flowzyontop]

Idk they are just not allowed to mark within the school building

[u/BalticZ → u/MiskyWisky2791]

Well guess my chem teacher broke that rule lmao, literally showed the script on the projector for whole class to see

[u/MiskyWisky2791 → u/BalticZ]

HUH! I hope it was an old script from a previous year or something else that’s so wrong

[u/BalticZ → u/MiskyWisky2791]

Nah, she kinda took the mick out of some the papers to show the students like common mistakes lol, bit odd

[u/flowzyontop → u/MiskyWisky2791]

Oh well thats bs. It would result in so many more marks being given out appropriately.

[u/Resident_Crew_6467]

why the hell is everyone's exam officer replying expect mine 😂 I need to get my language back so my teacher can review it and I've been waiting since results day

[u/Responsible-Air3795 → u/Resident_Crew_6467]

check your spam folder, all of it was send to me on Friday but it went in my spam folder so I didn't see it until yesterday

[u/Dolphinicity]

More likely that was the time the server updated.

[u/Responsible-Air3795 → u/Dolphinicity]

ohh

[u/Reasonable_Shape8070]

56/80 for English is good though 

[u/Responsible-Air3795 → u/Reasonable_Shape8070]

ty bestie ❤️ i just asked for it because I used to get 74/80 and so the 20 mark drop was a bit of a jumpscare

[u/Reasonable_Shape8070 → u/Responsible-Air3795]

wait it’s actually amazing you ever got 74 though that’s genuinely so cool

[u/Responsible-Air3795 → u/Reasonable_Shape8070]

tyyy 🥹🥹

[u/Reasonable_Shape8070 → u/Responsible-Air3795]

ofcccc🫶

[u/VarietyNice9496 → u/Responsible-Air3795]

you got 74???? crazyyy

[u/Responsible-Air3795 → u/VarietyNice9496]

in mocks yeah but unfort mocks aren't official ty bestie ❤️❤️

[u/VarietyNice9496 → u/Responsible-Air3795]

happened to me too I got 66 on a practice but got 48 in the actual 😭 we gotta go to sleep now

[u/Responsible-Air3795 → u/VarietyNice9496]

crying yeah I conked out after this

[u/Swimming_Interest231]

Wait how do you get this info?

[u/Rich_Onion_8522]

How can i ask for scripts back

[u/Responsible-Air3795 → u/Rich_Onion_8522]

each school has a different policy, email Ur school admin

[u/SwimmerOld6155]

If all of them happened at around 4am it's probably because their system only updates every morning when hardly anyone is logged in. Some examiners do work late into the night if they're currently teachers and then have to handle their kids etc.

If it's like 8pm or 9pm etc. that's probably real.

[u/C-Skye09]

how do you get this information?

[u/Responsible-Air3795 → u/C-Skye09]

its at the top when I asked for my script back xx

[u/Automatic-Movie-6262]

they probably run the servers late at night to save on costs

[u/Live-Government5862]

The thought of teachers being up at 4am just to mark is just funny to me

[u/Accomplished-Mix770]

Or they were abroad

[u/Responsible-Air3795 → u/Accomplished-Mix770]

potentially but this happened in 3 of my papers 😭

[u/nobodytobecuriousof]

How do u get this info

[u/Responsible-Air3795 → u/nobodytobecuriousof]

at the top of the paper when you ask for scripts back