LC Written Examiners, 2022

I'm kind of surprised to see this here. Teachers complain constantly that they have no voice in many of the changes in education, yet when they can have a voice, they are being told to shut up. It's important that answers are discussed and that other view points are considered at the marking conference. It's not a dictatorship.

I must say the weather Gods are being very kind tp us this year. Apparently there was a little drop.of rain yesterday 😅😅

Not a bonus, you get that automatically! It was a covid thing I think, initially I think 150eu per 25 bit 6eu per script is easier to manage at payroll level I'd imagine.

There is another bump over a certain amount but its different for every subject!

Just to be clear.

In LC maths, the payment per script is 8.60.

You are suggesting that for each and every script, an examiner will get 8.60 + 6.00 = 14.60?

Now that I read the screengrab again, I see what you mean. The 6 euro is applied to every script.

I’ve been to inservice on how to approach the write up of projects, and attendance wasn’t great… also people there arguing that they had a better way of approaching it, which seemed bizarre to me. Wilful ignorance.

The advance is so low since they started taxing it, but at least it means the balance will be great when it comes!

I did junior cert for years before moving to leaving cert, I’d say it’s a big shock straight off!

The work is very intense and the process is difficult to get used to the first time, but it does get easier, and with the extra payments this year, I think most people will find it worth it once they get paid. I think I got about €4000 last year into my hand, so about €1000 per week. Not a bad wage, imo.

No idea about the Irish bonus but the JC rate inclusive of the €3 extra per "satisfactorily marked" script is around the €10 mark? And LCHL tends to be around €26 per script inclusive of the €6 extra. Please feel free to correct me though! I would especially like to know what LCOL is per script?

The Irish bonus is typically about 10% of whatever the script rate is for a specific subject as far as I know

Thanks but it sounds like the difference in the rate of pay between LCHL and LCOL is not much at all yet the time involved (in my one paper subject at least) for HL is triple or quadruple to mark a HL script!

Examiners aren't allowed to comment on the marking of scripts whether they be deferred or otherwise.

The pma is holding it up again this year. It’ll get back to normal when the pma is gone.

I’ve often heard of examiners being let go. It’s not something they tend to advertise though. It was obvious to more people when we paper marked because the scripts had to be redistributed. Now they just increase someone’s targets.

I was paid today, absolutely unexpected!

I sent it in the post 24th or 25th, I was posting few bits so can't remember which. I never emailed to ask when it was received, I usually don't do that until the first week of September!