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Subject:

Handling illegible examination scripts

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Joanne Moles <[log in to unmask]>

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Colleagues



Our regulations state as follow this falls under students responsibilities:



To produce assessment material which is legible to the examiners unless alternative means of assessment have been agreed for the candidate in advance of the examination (see (e) above). 



Failure to submit legible work will lead to failure unless the student’s work is transcribed into a legible form at the student’s expense, which may delay the determination of the grade.



Many thanks





Joanne Moles

Examinations Officer

Academic Registry

Middlesex University

The Burroughs

Hendon

NW4 4BT



Tel: 0208 411 6757

Fax: 0208 411 6137



 Please don't print this e-mail unless you really need to.







-----Original Message-----

From: ARC Assessment Practitioners Group [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Simon Hayter

Sent: 14 January 2011 14:12

To: [log in to unmask]

Subject: Handling illegible examination scripts



Dear All,



I would be grateful for advice on practices at different institutions 

for handling illegible examination scripts .



My institution currently regulates that examination scripts, or parts 

thereof, that are illegible will receive a mark of zero (this does not 

cover students with diagnosed special requirements, for whom special 

arrangements are in place). This is not a recently added or amended 

regulation, and the issue has not previously been highlighted .



Two external examiners have recently described surprise at our policy, 

and one writes that "normal practice" elsewhere is to require students 

whose scripts are generally deemed to be illegible to have them typed out.



I would be interested to know :



a) Whether other institutions apply marks of zero in cases of illegible 

exam scripts and, if not, what other policy applies; and,



b) How, in institutions where transcription of illegible scripts is the 

norm, this is managed (charges for transcription, independence of 

transcriber, students not deliberately making their writing illegible to 

create opportunities for later revisions, etc).



We briefly discussed the idea of a process through which students who 

acknowledge that they have poor handwriting could notify the institution 

in advance, and perhaps be given use of a computer for the exam. 

However, concerns were expressed that this would be open to abuse by 

students who could type faster than they (or others) could write, and 

that many students with genuinely poor handwriting would not notify the 

institution, returning us to the original problem.



I would be happy to circulate a summary of responses if this will be 

helpful.



With thanks and best wishes,



Simon



-- 

Simon Hayter

Assistant Academic Registrar for Examinations & Assessment Governance

Academic Registry & Council Secretariat

Queen Mary, University of London

Mile End Road, London, E1 4NS



tel:     +44 (0)20 7882 2771

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