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Form to request to view scripts

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  • 21-08-2016 9:39pm
    #1
    goldenrose0
    Registered Users Posts: 1 ✭


    I have somehow lost the form you need to request to view the scripts.. Would it still be possible for me to view them?


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    spurious
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Education Moderators Posts: 27,189 CMod ✭✭✭✭spurious


    Contact your school's Exam Secretary tomorrow. They may have some blanks.
    AFAIK the deadline to get the forms in is Tuesday.


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    daraghwal
    Registered Users Posts: 946 ✭✭✭daraghwal


    I'm repeating next year but I have decided to view my papers. Spurious do you have any advice on what I should be looking for when viewing the papers?


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    Wanderer41
    Registered Users Posts: 240 ✭✭Wanderer41


    daraghwal wrote: »
    I'm repeating next year but I have decided to view my papers. Spurious do you have any advice on what I should be looking for when viewing the papers?

    Check that your marks add up to the correct total. Go through each question to check whether you got the correct marks and that am answer wasn't missed. Add each question's marks to make sure the subtotals are correct. Be careful not to add in extra questions (where you had a choice of questions).


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    spurious
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Education Moderators Posts: 27,189 CMod ✭✭✭✭spurious


    daraghwal wrote: »
    I'm repeating next year but I have decided to view my papers. Spurious do you have any advice on what I should be looking for when viewing the papers?

    Get a teacher to have a look with you. Ideally one who has corrected and understand the various symbols. Most schools will have some staff who are coming in unpaid to help.
    • First check that the marks on the cover correspond to the marks inside beside each question.
    • Check that they tot up to the total you have been given.
    • Then look at individual questions.
    • See in the marking scheme was marks were going for what things and see if you had or did not have them.
    • If you find a discrepancy, take a note of the question number and part number, so that you can say, for example, 'In q.2 part(v), marking scheme looks for 'blue clouds' and I gave the answer 'blue clouds' and it was not given marks'.
    • Marks in square brackets [x] are marks that were given to a question or part of a question but not counted, as it was an extra part, or a wrong combination choice. Be careful not to add them to your total.

    If it has been marked in red and green biro, it has already been double checked.


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    daraghwal
    Registered Users Posts: 946 ✭✭✭daraghwal


    spurious wrote: »
    Get a teacher to have a look with you. Ideally one who has corrected and understand the various symbols. Most schools will have some staff who are coming in unpaid to help.
    • First check that the marks on the cover correspond to the marks inside beside each question.
    • Check that they tot up to the total you have been given.
    • Then look at individual questions.
    • See in the marking scheme was marks were going for what things and see if you had or did not have them.
    • If you find a discrepancy, take a note of the question number and part number, so that you can say, for example, 'In q.2 part(v), marking scheme looks for 'blue clouds' and I gave the answer 'blue clouds' and it was not given marks'.
    • Marks in square brackets [x] are marks that were given to a question or part of a question but not counted, as it was an extra part, or a wrong combination choice. Be careful not to add them to your total.

    If it has been marked in red and green biro, it has already been double checked.

    Thanks for that!


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    randylonghorn
    Registered Users Posts: 29,509 ✭✭✭✭randylonghorn


    daraghwal wrote: »
    I'm repeating next year but I have decided to view my papers. Spurious do you have any advice on what I should be looking for when viewing the papers?
    Ask your teacher or, if unavailable, another teacher of that subject (ideally, a teacher who has examined in that subject).

    Note "ask" ... don't simply wander in and expect all your teachers to be lined up in a row for two days (unpaid extra duty) waiting to serve you when you swan in! :p

    Often schools will have a system to facilitate this, sometimes they will just take a list of students who would like Ms. Agsciteacher to view their scripts with them, or they will pass on names and tel. numbers for Ms. A. to contact, or whatever.

    If you don't have a way of contacting the relevant teacher(s) directly, just ask the school what the normal procedure in your school is.


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