QUOTE(Starbucki @ Dec 14 2016, 10:57 PM)
Mark by question rather than by script.
QUOTE(less1234 @ Dec 15 2016, 02:59 PM)
Yea. Go through a single question/subsection/section of the entire class first. Rinse and repeat.
Why will it be faster?
Some candidates may have similar answers and you can just give similar marks by just first glance or by knowing gist of the answers. Nevertheless, faster means more chance to mark wrongly though.
QUOTE(PF T.J. @ Dec 24 2016, 04:22 PM)
+1! Despite the need to flip through a lot of pages/answer booklets, marking according to question is more consistent. Its better to be safe than sorry
Some lecturers got into trouble for marking too fast and not adhering to the marking script when students appeal for a remark
QUOTE(syafiqsm @ Dec 31 2016, 11:48 PM)
Agree. Mark by question first.
I'm not a lecturer, but I'm doing PhD now and also an RA. So, I help my SV to mark his students' papers from time to time.
I found it hard to mark papers fast enough because of tendency to read very thoroughly students answers. But, over time, I learnt to just SKIM the papers and focus on KEYWORDS rather than long elaboration.
I will use pencil first for marking. And I finalize it with a pen.
Yes, it's true, fast marking prone to mistakes. I will always revisit the papers that earn either very high score or very low one for re-check before finalizing the score.
It helps.
QUOTE(balat @ Jan 4 2017, 09:24 PM)
u wot mate?
keywords bro. in a few years, you ll do it faster
Thanks everyone. Yes, I have just recently tried marking by questions. It's less headache that way.
Anyway, I believe some of you mentioned keywords.
But I'm also teaching some subjects involving computations. And this has always been giving me headaches when there are a lot of scripts because I'm also giving marks for correct workings despite wrong final answer (and their workings can come in many different forms).