English exam mistakes

[iao123]

that may be true, but having talked to examiners at my school, they emphasized that they do NOT skim read, and do still read every word, which is entirely possible to do in 3-4 minutes.

[simpak]

Not if a response shows vast complexity.

[ninwa]

my text repsone was dodgey i didnt answer the question properly(misinterpretation) in my first body para, but answered correctly in my other two....

does that mean i cant get a 6-8/10 for text?

In my section 3 opinion piece I didn't actually answer the question (read it too fast and misunderstood what they were asking) yet I got a 45+ SS. So I'm sure as long as your other paragraphs were good, it shouldn't lose you too many marks.

[Blitz]

Also, the other thing, with the Language Analysis I didn't mention Voxi at all. I didn't see the name until after the exam so I just referred to him as "the author" for the entire language analysis. Other then that, I thought I did really well on it. How detrimental would not mentioning Voxi be in my mark for language analysis.

I had an English teacher a few years ago, who was always saying 'Authors write books, writers write articles', and from that moment on, I never wrote 'the author states that....' in a language analysis again (unless it was from a book).

[mystikal]

my text repsone was dodgey i didnt answer the question properly(misinterpretation) in my first body para, but answered correctly in my other two....

does that mean i cant get a 6-8/10 for text?

In my section 3 opinion piece I didn't actually answer the question (read it too fast and misunderstood what they were asking) yet I got a 45+ SS. So I'm sure as long as your other paragraphs were good, it shouldn't lose you too many marks.

yea but old study design wasnt it like the opinion piece worth 5 marks? and language analysis the other 5 marks plus 2 text response 10 marks each?

so your mistake wudnt have much of an impact as it was only worth 5 marks?

[mystikal]

  It's drilled into us that on average, examiners only have 3-4 minutes to read through+mark an essay.

+1

yea i have to agree with this, coz there is no way they are gonna read every single essay in depth (thats like 100-200 essays) and they have a strict deadline as well. Also they dont make comments all they do is give a mark out 10 then move on to next paper. Very long and boring process. It is understandable that they can skim read some essays and make a good judgment on it (as they are qualified assessors) also if there are any huge differences in scores they have a third marker.

[ninwa]

yea but old study design wasnt it like the opinion piece worth 5 marks? and language analysis the other 5 marks plus 2 text response 10 marks each?

so your mistake wudnt have much of an impact as it was only worth 5 marks?

Good point. DISREGARD EVERYTHING I SAID IN ABOVE POST

[mystikal]

yea but old study design wasnt it like the opinion piece worth 5 marks? and language analysis the other 5 marks plus 2 text response 10 marks each?

so your mistake wudnt have much of an impact as it was only worth 5 marks?

Good point. DISREGARD EVERYTHING I SAID IN ABOVE POST

lols great. . . == im doomed then

[lolbox]

Half the English staff at my school are exam markers

lol only one this year actually

[EvangelionZeta]

Hyperbole.

About half of them have had exam marking experience, anyway. 

[monokekie]

um most examiners are retired teachers, because marking is a rather painful process that requires them to sacrifice personally. The pay isn't high either.

[NE2000]

This has been bugging me for a while. It seems that all three of my essays had one 'mistake'. Eg. for context one of my short paragraphs didn't make sense, sort of formed a circular argument if you know what I mean. Now how harshly do they penalize such errors? Is it still possible to get a 10 if a few sentences were a bit out of whack with the rest of the essay. My essays are pretty long so I wonder whether the problem gets hidden or exposed and how it's treated.

[monokekie]

um i think it depends on the examiner/s who mark your exam. i was told that examiners pay attention to the intro, topic sentence and the link sentence, and if the body of a paragraph went on a tangent you will still be fine as long as your point is clear. um so, its hard to tell but i have this feeling that you did well NE20000

[NE2000]

^^ haha thanks for the confidence. English counts so much so I sometimes get worried about it (although obviously I can't change anything now).

[herzy]

EvanglionZeta, mind if i ask what school you go to? i have also heard the 3-4 minutes thing, no idea if it's true... i'd like to think it's not, given the amount of effort, time and personal opinions which can go into an essay, but who knows...