exam papers marked in India

VeryTrying_2

Spendless wrote:

Maths I can't answer you but I do know that 2 years ago I worked with a girl who had a degree.

She wished to be a teacher but hadn't passed English Language GCSE (she'd passed English Lit). She was told that she needed this before applying to teacher training college, so was taking the exam whilst working at 2 part-time jobs.

Thanks for that, I thought it might have changed in the last few years. But even so, a pass in English GCSE isn't a very high level of qualification for someone responsible for educating our children.

chugalug

Slightly off topic - I wanted to teach but couldnt get in. I didnt get any qualifications at school but did my maths and english A levels many years later. But because the regulations state had to have GCSE's wasnt accepted. I thought A levels would be better but apparently not!! Go Figure.

surfcat

I understand what you're saying VeryTrying, about GSCE English not being a particularly good qualification for the educators of our children, but this is societies fault.

It is the fault of (more) intelligent people not taking up teaching careers, and going for more money in investment banking, law, whatever. It always rather irriates me when people put teachers down, "those that can do, those who can't, teach" etc. If more people actually went into teaching, we wouldn't have this problem of lowly qualified teachers.

Amba_Gambla

Helix wrote:

I thought the exam boards scanned them in and then they display certain questions on that markers computer screen. So the actual papers themselves don't leave the country. This is what a teacher told me anyway.

Also with the short course languages most of the questions are just multiple choice and you tick a box.

Stand corrected - it is internet marking after all - papers don;t leave the shores!!!


fairy nuff I say!!

puno

Exam papers being marked abroad? It's the only way AQA and others doing the marking can make any money. My wife did some marking a few years back and we worked out the hourly rate to be less than the minimum wage!

All teachers have to achieve academic qualifications to be in their positions and could earn better money in industry, banking whatever. So who wants to spend the only perk (school holidays) working for less than the minimum wage?

If the companies paid better rates more teachers would do it, trouble is the companies are profit driven and hence the decision to out source to India. You cant blame them for wanting to make a profit. I would like to think the marking will be thoroughly moderated to ensure standards but I think the reality is that it wont be. Therefore the number of incorrect grades and appeals will rocket as a consequence.

I hope the people who are taken on to do this job are better qualified and speak better english than those that work in the DELL call centre!

p.

pin

puno wrote:

I hope the people who are taken on to do this job are better qualified and speak better english than those that work in the DELL call center!

p.

Seeing as we probably all agree that we speak British Enlgish here, "center" should be spelt "centre".

puno

pin you should moderate the exam papers!

HugoRune_2

so long as they are not the enlgish papers!

raeble

I'm sure that Indian speak a very high standard of English, with reading and grammar etc it is probably better than here. Looking at the pigs ear that the education system is in at the moment, speaking as someone who went through schooling in the 80s - 90s the standard of English that was taught in the state schools that I went to was a complete and utter joke. No spelling tests, no grammar, no written comprehension (whatever that is) etc. Teachers in my primary school used to mostly teach you what they liked until the national curriculum came in. This is just another sign of the problems with education system if true. I also wonder if the indian markers might have problems reading the handwriting - I know I have problem at work sometimes. When I was in HK, I wrote something down using block capitals and when I came to pay my bill what I had written down had been entered onto the system incorrectly.

Fatboy_NSS

pin wrote:

Seeing as we probably all agree that we speak British Enlgish here, "center" should be spelt "centre".

Center and Centre are both legitimate British English. Look in a dictionary.