Writing notes to examiners - completely frowned upon?

red_red_wine

I got home from my Irish Paper I this evening and something has really been irritating me. In the second comprehension, the one with Mary Robinson, I stupidly confused the verbs 'to kill' and 'to live.'

For question 4 (b) - the one asking how did she show her independence as Commisioner - when I was changing around the answer for her criticising the death penalty I wrote 'na tíortha a mhaireann a gciontóirí' instead of 'na tíortha a mharaíonn a gciontóirí.' Now it's obviously just a small mistake (if one that made the sentence entirely nonsensical) and it's been bothering me. Is it completely ludicrous to consider writing a note to the examiner in my paper tomorrow in which I apologise for the mistake (I'd write it in Irish, obviously.)

It's probably a completely crazy idea and maybe it's just exam stress talking, I just wanted some opinions

Dr.Evil

Are paper one and two not corrected by different people?

red_red_wine

I don't think so, no...

LilMissCiara

Dr.Evil wrote: »

Are paper one and two not corrected by different people?

Yes they are.

spurious

Don't write any notes. The examiner has too many papers to correct to lose any sleep over your minor mistake. You made a spelling mistake. It's not the end of the world.

Aoifums

I thought different people corrected the two papers

I left an apology note in Maths paper 2 today because I turned my graph paper sideways to to a better graph. It probably wasn't needed but it was one of those things that makes sense in an exam

red_red_wine

spurious wrote: »

Don't write any notes. The examiner has too many papers to correct to lose any sleep over your minor mistake. You made a spelling mistake. It's not the end of the world.

Ok, fair enough. I think I just needed someone 'official' to convince me that it was a stupid idea. I'll be able to forget about it now and study for tomorrow.

red_red_wine

Just out of curiosity though, can someone confirm whether or not they're corrected by different people? I was always told that it was the same person - so that if you're in anyway borderline, they'll either mark down or mark up to discourage rechecks?

randylonghorn

red_red_wine wrote: »

Ok, fair enough. I think I just needed someone 'official' to convince me that it was a stupid idea. I'll be able to forget about it now and study for tomorrow.

It's a stupid idea!!


(Not being rude, just using your own words! )

red_red_wine

randylonghorn wrote: »

It's a stupid idea!!


(Not being rude, just using your own words! )

Era it's fair enough, my mam, dad, sisters and best friend told me as much :P

Columbia

I would avoid it. Speaking from experience, any "notes" written in the papers would tend to just make me focus more on whatever error was made, whereas otherwise it would seem largely unimportant.

One time I was with a group of people blind-marking papers (everyone is given a photocopy of the answer, grades it independently, and then everyone's grades are compared - it's mostly there to ensure consistency between different markers), and the person leading the group had blocked over a 'note' from the student at the end of the answer, but only for half the photocopies. The half of us who did have the apologetic note gave between 5 and 8% less for the response than those who had just been given the answer itself.

In any case, it's probably very likely they'll be graded by different people. I know it's annoying to make mistakes that you feel are silly, but it's not going to make or break your LC, so all you can do is move on!

liverpool lad

are paper one and paper 2 corrected by different people? i am almost positive the last time I was at my aunts house when she was correcting she had paper 1/paper 2 and tape for everybody? and from checking my own paper a few years ago they looked the exam same way like done by the same person? I might be wrong tho?

LilMissCiara

red_red_wine wrote: »

Era it's fair enough, my mam, dad, sisters and best friend told me as much :P

All that over one word! :L

red_red_wine

LilMissCiara wrote: »

All that over one word! :L

I know :P I'm sure I made far greater mistakes that that, it was just that moment of realisation - I got very emotional ...exams turn us into crazy people...

daex

liverpool lad wrote: »

are paper one and paper 2 corrected by different people? i am almost positive the last time I was at my aunts house when she was correcting she had paper 1/paper 2 and tape for everybody? and from checking my own paper a few years ago they looked the exam same way like done by the same person? I might be wrong tho?

It's the same one,for english anyway. 'cause I thought I put the wrong exam number on my paper (as you do :rolleyes:). so I said it to my examiner the next day and she said it should be fine because of that

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In fairness now...

**Timbuk2**

You can write small notes like "see end of booklet for rough work" or something but it really isn't necessary.

what.to.do

Eh, I thought that was against the rules.

I read the handbook last year, and I think something about writing notes to examiners was a no-no.

Might be wrong.

Edit: Notes that aren't related to the exam questions, I mean.

delta_bravo

what.to.do wrote: »

Eh, I thought that was against the rules.

I read the handbook last year, and I think something about writing notes to examiners was a no-no.

Might be wrong.

Edit: Notes that aren't related to the exam questions, I mean.

Well it is pointless, your examiner has 300 scripts to correct. They will rightly correct your exam in an objective manner and not make any allowance for notes or explanations to mistakes. One spelling error isn't the end of the world. Just focus on P2

If you write or draw explicit notes thats where you get in the serious trouble

what.to.do

Won't be getting marks for drawing a smiling man in the helicopter of Q5 in maths today so...

*SIIIIIIIGH*

randylonghorn

I think we have established that writing any kind of notes in scripts is unnecessary at best (with the exception of something like "the rest of this answer is on the back page" or something of that sort).