English assessors

[TheEagle]

Hey AN

Out of curiosity, how many texts do assessors mark?


And do they base the scores off the standard per text or in general? For instance, if no one writes an exceptionally well essay for an unpopular text (i.e 1% of the state do it), will no one get a 10/10 out of all those students doing that text?

[darkz]

Hey AN
Out of curiosity, how many texts do assessors mark?
And do they base the scores off the standard per text or in general? For instance, if no one writes an exceptionally well essay for an unpopular text (i.e 1% of the state do it), will no one get a 10/10 out of all those students doing that text?

Obviously, English is a very subjective subject, with different assessors having different preferences etc. However, in general, assessors will mark based on the overall quality of your piece and in relation to the VCAA marking rubric. With that being said, high scoring essays are relatively standardised i.e. pretty easy to tell a high-range vs mid-range piece, although differentiators within the high-range become more and more subjective. Therefore yes, if no one is capable of writing a high range essay, then no one will get a high range score. Marks are not based on the difficulty of the topic, nor on the text selected.

[TheEagle]

Obviously, English is a very subjective subject, with different assessors having different preferences etc. However, in general, assessors will mark based on the overall quality of your piece and in relation to the VCAA marking rubric. With that being said, high scoring essays are relatively standardised i.e. pretty easy to tell a high-range vs mid-range piece, although differentiators within the high-range become more and more subjective. Therefore yes, if no one is capable of writing a high range essay, then no one will get a high range score. Marks are not based on the difficulty of the topic, nor on the text selected.

That makes sense. So pretty much an assessor will have the rubric in front of them the whole time and mark based off that? I've heard they get paid like $2 per essay

[SmartWorker]

That makes sense. So pretty much an assessor will have the rubric in front of them the whole time and mark based off that? I've heard they get paid like $2 per essay

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