Could the spreadsheet be more confusing?

You can never make anything too complicated.

I see I had a spike in visitors because of my previous post, which must’ve disappointed a small number of right-wing Americans because it had nothing to do with the apparent topic.

I finished marking the mocks yesterday and had assigned them grades according to the standard thresholds before waving some Tippex over them and using the less generous thresholds which we’d been given. In some cases, I thought the loss of a grade was a little unfair; in other cases, I wholly agreed. Overall, I’d rather use the neutral grade thresholds rather than those devised for a specific exam; but my one qualm was that no one got below a C, which is a little unusual.

The less good news is that we’re only going to get help with the speaking exams for a couple of days. The prospect of dealing with 195 students with just three of us was bad enough, but the whole process is going to drag on. If only the boys had been much nicer when they did the accreditation.

11.04.12 I forgot to elucidate about the spreadsheet in the title, which was a replacement for some older one with which there was a fault. The complication with the document was the inane desire for every single mark to be recorded allegedly so that the unrelated, non-identical Wonder Twins can see where there are issues. Utter waste of time because you can only see the issues from marking the papers. The final question in Exam Exercise 2 in the Reading and Writing paper was badly done, but an average of 10/14 won’t tell anyone that.

I also suspect that this may be used to beat us over the head, but I’m hoping that an excess of meaningless figures will spare us from the worst when their Ladyships fail to see anything useful in all the detail.