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edexcel marking is gone mad?
$tyli$h Executive:
--- Quote from: Jesmin on March 13, 2011, 10:48:52 am ---so far are there any complaints that the edexcel marking is unfair?
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Yes, there were.
For example,
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=354724713266
3bood:
--- Quote from: Jesmin on March 13, 2011, 10:48:52 am ---so far are there any complaints that the edexcel marking is unfair?
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well for the area that im in
there is a lot of complains
but anyway inshallah everything will be better :)
$tyli$h Executive:
Interesting: :D http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Examiner+fails+in+Edexcel+unfair+dismissal+tribunal.-a097290494
Examiner fails in Edexcel unfair dismissal tribunal.
An examiner who claimed that he lost his job with an examination board after criticising his employers attitude to marking yesterday failed in his attempt to bring an action for unfair dismissal.
An employment tribunal sitting in Norwich ruled that retired headmaster John Mead, aged 66, of Cromer, Norfolk, was not legally an employee of the examination board Edexcel and therefore not entitled to launch an unfair dismissal case. Edexcel severed links with Mr Mead in June 2002 barely two weeks after he had complained that he was being asked to mark down GCSE history candidates.
Mr Mead, a history paper examiner since 1988, said he had been told that if too many candidates were regraded on appeal it would reflect badly on Edexcel.
But his attempts to win compensation fell at the first legal hurdle after Edexcel argued that Mr Mead had never been 'an employee' in the legal sense of the term but had worked on a contract basis.
Tribunal chairman Christopher Ash praised the eloquence of Mr Mead, who represented himself at the hearing, but said his claim could not be considered for legal reasons. After the hearing Mr Mead said he would consider what other avenues of appeal were available before coming to any decision as to whether to pursue his claims against Edexcel.
Mr Mead had earlier said examiners' pay was so 'beggarly' that the board was forced to recruit student teachers to mark GCSE papers. He said he thought that examination board Edexcel was 'mad' to use unqualified staff to grade papers.
'Because of the beggarly pay they were forced to look outside the teaching profession for markers,' Mr Mead told the tribunal in Norwich.
'They recruited student teachers who were then trained to mark by examiners.
'These were graduates who were doing their post-graduate diploma.
'At the time we were training them they were not newly-qualified teachers.
'I thought they (Edexcel) were mad.'
3bood:
--- Quote from: $tyli$h Executive on March 11, 2011, 12:50:13 pm ---No. A student will get marks in the lower threshold if he/she does not answer what the question asks. If this pattern is repeated over many questions, it is very easy to get an U in the exam.
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thx for the information
i hope its useful but i dont think the students that im talking abt are so stupid to not know what the question asks for
even if they get 2 marks out of every question theyll score better :)
$tyli$h Executive:
--- Quote from: 3bood on March 13, 2011, 10:57:05 am --- thx for the information
i hope its useful but i dont think the students that im talking abt are so stupid to not know what the question asks for
even if they get 2 marks out of every question theyll score better :)
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I hope so. :)
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