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> From: The FE Exams Network mailing list
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of Barbara Connell
> Sent: 07 March 2003 8:57 am
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> Subject: Summer results day
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>
> 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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