LC Written Examiners, 2022

My subject was only €5.67 per paper plus €3 extra. Just did the maths and not sure if they paid me the conference or administration fee. Did those payments come with the main payment? I can find two payments on online banking ,the advance and then a second one in October.

Norma was saying on RTE radio one the other morning that the SEC were happy they have enough to mark papers!

Do I believe her though?

Did we believe her when she said schools were safe? :)

Varies depending on performance and when vacancies actually arise. 8 years in my case when I got it. Have seen others get it from 4 to 20+ years.

Turns out they didn't log my email accepting it, got an email saying I hadn't returned my acceptance .....had to email back a screenshot of the email I definitely did email back. Very annoying, I turned down other work and moved things to be available and I've been correcting years. Hopefully they can sort it out.

They were so late getting back last year I left it assuming it was grand, only when I got to the end of last week and has no rmassesor login was I worried.

Was onto them this morning by phone, sending it on the the head of examiners. I'm a bit confused to be honest, as far as I'm concerned, given I returned the form by the date stated by email, I should be appointed as it's a contract once I return the acceptance. A simple email in March stating you've been accepted would solve this. The SEC should really have a better system for this.

You'll be out of conference by 4pm, might even be 330.

Been thinking of your predicament all day, annoying just doesn't cover it. You've planned around it, and presumably, no more than any of us, have the income earmarked for something or other. I think I know your subject (as we have the same main subject and seem to have similar experience with DEIS schools). You'd have thought that it was just a thought of changing the split of papers and telling you to come along for sure. It would be crazy to pass over an experienced examiner, when there are bound to be some inexperienced in the group. They also risk you not coming back next year, be it as you've sourced a 2023 alternative, or out of annoyance.

Really hope you get sorted.

Thanks for that, I was pretty annoyed for sure. More by the dismissive and incorrect initial response. I had really moved things around to make it work, moreso than any other year actually.

But good news at least, managed to get a very nice and helpful younger guy on the phone this morning at half 9 (poor guy was only turning on the computer when he answered the phone). He went above and beyond and sorted it out. In fairness, the chief advising examiner and all the subject specific people are great in general (why I keep coming back 🙂) and were in contact very quickly.

I'd be concerned it's unlikely I'm the only person who's email "went missing". The loss of the experienced staff in the SEC during covid definitely shows. Endemic in teaching though, you'd swear they had loads of people lined up for every job.

Unlikely. You can probably go back over the model answers if you want to do something. You will have gone through samples at the in person conference and then doing the online work on the zoom day. There’s a day between all of the conferences this year, I don’t know why.

Has exemplar and practice script on the calendar for the middle day? Maybe everyone just goes home and corrects a couple of scripts in the middle day? Must be something new they're trying.

To get logged into the online marking and get familiarised. Make sure any issues with logins etc are sorted. Do a couple of practice scripts.

Yes, posting them out was a covid measure. The blue book should be the only thing you have going with you.

Usually the rate is per candidate.

Yes, I did. I think its payment for attendance at the marking conferences

That's bang on if you have no credits assigned to the SEC, double check on revenue. Usually not worth moving anything bar the USC bands anyway

You pay full tax on the advance now, it means the tax free elements are all in the second payment (expenses) so that payment will be higher.

Yeah, basically add it, estimate your earnings and then it'll split your usc. Unless you aren't employed as a full time teacher only your USC bands will change. Probably just be an extra 100 or 2 in the payment at the end but that can be a lot depending.