Just like to say it is so reassuring to see that everyone else is in the
same boat and totally fed up with Key skills.This exams network is great to
hear everyone else's moans, trouble is though the time i read all these
emails i am not getting any work done!
We download the results via EdI on the Wednesday but collect our slips from
the post office on thursday abot 6:30am. We are a large college and given
the number of students and different exam boards we just about manage to
release our results at 11am.
I totally agree with the request for results to be printed alphabetically
rather than in candidate number order. I have asked the boards for this
several times and they have said it is not possible.Why? Surely it is just
another sort! The students don't even know what board they sat with let
alone what their candidate number is! So we have to sort the slips into
alphabetical order to give them out which is very time consuming on results
day.It is nice to hear that someone else actually want the results in this
order too.
It would be a great idea if we could have the slips on the Wednesday before
to collate them and then we could issue them earlier on Thursday morning and
have more time to deal with the queries.
Nicola Jones
Examination officer
Neath PortTalbot college
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Joanne Hicks [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: 07 March 2003 10:37
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Summer results day
>
> Jean
> I agree totally, is this something we can push forward via ACRA? Does
> anyone
> know why the exam board object to us having the results slips the day
> before, after all we have the results in edi format so what difference
> does
> it make?
> We print off our own results slips on the Wednesday which are stuffed into
> envelopes awaiting the "official" results slips the following day. Its a
> massive operation here with around 30 staff coming in for 7.00am to start
> sorting and stuffing, made all the more difficult as candidate number
> order
> doesn't mean alphabetical order anymore! We are expecting around 3000
> results for 1500 students, we aim to be ready for 11.00.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: JEAN PASSMORE [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: 07 March 2003 10:25
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Summer results day
>
>
> We collect from post office about 6.00am with rest of exams staff coming
> into work about 6.30am. We hand out 'stuffed' envelopes to students from
> 9.30. This is very stressful as we also have to confirm the statistics
> produced from the EDI files received the day before ready for an official
> announcement regarding %age pass rates to be given to the press first
> thing.
> We need to pressure the exam boards to release result slips to us on the
> Wedensday so we can prepare envelopes ready to be issued first thing
> Thursday - does anyone agree?
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: John McCabe [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: 07 March 2003 09:25
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Summer results day
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: The FE Exams Network mailing list
> > [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of Barbara Connell
> > Sent: 07 March 2003 8:57 am
> > To: [log in to unmask]
> > Subject: Summer results day
> >
> >
> > I would be interested in finding out what is the earliest you
> > release the
> > results to your students. I collect ours from the Post
> > Office at 7.00 am
> > except Edexcel (like to be different) arrives by special
> > post, we like to
> > envelope them, so do not let the student pick them up until
> > approx 11.00 am,
> > I am being pressurised this year to have them available earlier.
> >
> > I would welcome details of any systems you may have in place
> > that makes this
> > day less stressful.
> >
>
> We wait for the post at about 9.00 am and then envelope them and
> distribute
> the A2 and AS results at about 11.00 a.m. We delay module results until
> the
> afternoon. We have looked at printing out slips from the EDI download but
> rejected that because of the usual problems with the quality of results.
> If
> they want fast results, that would be the way to go on the understanding
> that the quality of the results will suffer. We regularly expect about 8
> to
> 10 problems out of about 320 A2 students. This year, we found that one of
> the boards had messed up the coursework marks so that a large number of
> results were wrong on the slips.
>
> Another system adopted in some colleges is to post the broadsheets so
> everybody can see what they (and everybody else) got. There are obvious
> pro's and con's.
>
> John McCabe
> CIS Manager
> East Norfolk College
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