CIE Reporting System for Answer Sheets' Checking.

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In few English education boards like Edexel, after students receive their results they are allowed to check their answer papers' marking by the examiners. This is made possible by giving all students username and passwords.
This process makes it possible FOR EVERY STUDENT (not only those who pay additional hefty amounts as CIE rechecking and for question wise remarks fee) to have a fair look and improve upon their mistakes. In addition to that students may directly chat with examiners for their improvement and for any queries they have.
Rest I leave to you people out there to decide yourself what is better for our student.

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Comments

Umer said…
Yes sir CIE clearly lack behind in this case, lots of students go for rechecking and often marks are changed (either raised or decreased is some cases), this is is bringing the reputation and status of CIE down there are two main steps in my mind to stop that,

CIE and stop the paper rechecking process (whats the use of giving lots of bucks as paper fee when the students don't even have believe that their marking will be fair)

Or they can raise the paper fee a little and send back the answer sheets to the students with comments.
21 September 2008 at 21:30:00 GMT+6
Unknown said…
I totally agree, this is very much unfair with the students as they are not even allowed to see their paper and the mistakes they have made for improvement next time...there is other problem aswel as they do not provide actual marks / percentages instead giving the percentile..by this the student remains unaware of his actual result.
22 September 2008 at 01:44:00 GMT+6
Unknown said…
Yeah, your comments dictate for your feelings. I believe CIE is hiding their work practices by doing this all.
As Pakistan is the single largest CIE market in the whole world and people have already started thinking about alternatives like GCSE and IB, CIE should overhaul and revamp its processes in students' favour.
23 September 2008 at 08:30:00 GMT+6
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