End of year assessments or mock listening/reading exams need marking. I used to do them all one by one and it took me aaaaages.
7 years into my career I learnt that you can manage a whole class in one PPA with some question level analysis thrown in for good measure!
This method is suited to the listening and reading papers. It also works for the 4 sentences about a photo and the translations of the outgoing GCSE. It does not work for writing sadly.
Here’s how…
You ideally need a classroom with rows. If not, borrow a colleague’s classroom and watch them stare at you in a slightly odd way while you enact the following process:
- Put the mark scheme on the interactive whiteboard
- Lay the papers out with the same page showing along the rows (closer together than the AI generated picture). Ideally open them at the first page the first time through.
- Walk along the rows, marking the same question over and over. After a while you start looking for D C A B as the answers, P N N P or “salchichas” “sandillas” “treinta” etc
- Walk back turning to the next page
- Repeat
Considerations:
If you have a large class it may be easier to do 10 or so at a time.
Having the exam papers open anonymises the process and ensures you are objective. You can look at the end if there is a paper that is striking you as “they didn’t revise”. Or stick a post-it note if you spot something you really need to address.
Every time you go to the laptop to move the mark scheme on a page is an opportunity to note down any areas or vocabulary students struggled with.
Give it a try
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