19. Appendix F - Marking and Checking

Marking

The examiners should provide each assessor with the marking scheme approved by the Examining Board. Letters to assessors and markers in previous years are commended; the following points must be made:

Marking Schemes It is the responsibility of assessors to use the final approved marking scheme. Marking schemes should be applied consistently. However, should it become clear while marking that the allocation of marks should be changed, please ensure that this is
done consistently, and advise the examiners of this change.
 
Mark Ranges in FHS papers All questions are to be marked out of 25.
 
Marking The examiners will want to review at least some of the scripts during the classification process. They will not want to re-mark (since they cannot do so consistently across all candidates).  They will want to be able to see quickly where marks have been gained. They will also want to be sure that all of a candidate's work has been taken into consideration. Markers are therefore asked to observe the following. 
 
  • Indicate on the mark sheets, using whole numbers, the available marks awarded for each part of a question. 
  • Include the total mark awarded for each questions in the highlighted sections of the marksheet, enter the integral numerical mark for each question, taking care to distinguish between an attempt scoring zero marks (enter “0”) and a non-attempt (enter “-”).
  • not write comments in the questions section, but, if necessary write on the second tab of the mark sheets provided.
 
Mark sheets will be supplied.
 
In entering into the electronic mark sheets the integral numerical mark for each question care must be taken to distinguish between 0 marks for an attempt and $-$ for a non-attempt.
 
Assessors are asked to compute the check-sum for each candidate, which is the last two digits of the candidate number(taken as a two digit number) plus the sum of raw marks.
 
Assessors will be asked to return the marksheet electronically through the marking site on SharePoint Online.
 
Reports Assessors will provide the examiners with a brief report on the performance of the candidates on each paper (or part-paper) to assist them in their deliberation on calibration; in particular assessors are invited to suggest where class boundaries (Distinction, Merit and Pass) could be drawn. Model examples of helpful reports are available.