Marking scheme is rubbish.It is for those yeye lecturers who wants to stop students from think out of the box.

I'm a part time lecturer in a state college of education. I discovered that so many students fail because scripts are been given to someone who has no knowledge about the course. It's a must to prepare a scheme bt i don't follow the scheme. I don't blame the lecturers ooo. it's easy to teach students than to mark scripts (I swear).

Yes of course, it is compulsory because the level of our integrity in Africa is still not there, I was very disappointed about what happened in one Nigerian University.

RexEmmyGee:
Those things should be on their heads, don't you think. Except they give it out for someone to mark

I DON'T KNOW THE SCHOOL YOU WENT TO BUT WHERE I SCHOOLED STUDENTS DON'T MARK YOUR SCRIPTS.. LECTURERS DO...#FACT

Truely a bad system, bt some f us hav taken it upon ourselves to mark by ourselves and I personally encouraged my students to write according to their understanding in my courses not cramming my reading material. Some f them can actually express themselves in their own word. That's d best to m

starstunna1313:


I DON'T KNOW THE SCHOOL YOU WENT TO BUT WHERE I SCHOOLED STUDENTS DON'T MARK YOUR SCRIPTS.. LECTURERS DO...#FACT

The plain fact is that all schools give out script to other students to mark. Mainly PG marking UG script

RexEmmyGee:

The plain fact is that all schools give out script to other students to mark. Mainly PG marking UG script

In Med School is round table marking...

Darkseid:
They create marking schemes so that they can give it to other students to mark. I still remember my Physics 513 course on Lasers, after the exam, over half of the class scored E and F, the highest was C. When we made enquires for the low scores, we discovered that such a difficult course was given to a 300l student from another department to mark. The guy marked nonsense because most of our answers even though correct where not in the marking scheme. It was really painful.

So what later became of the mofo?

Fxwarrior:

So what later became of the mofo?

Nothing was done about it, we just had to accept our fate.

Nice one. I have friends who are lecturers. It's now compulsory in most schools to present marking scheme with your question paper. I think it's making more sense.

adanny01:


Let me give u an example, if an exam ask for a definition. The marking scheme does not ask for say 3 marks for the definition word for word. Alot of people will fail. So the marking scheme picks say 3 words without which the definition is incomplete. If a candidate uses the 3 words he get full marks. If he uses 2 he gets 2 marks out of 3, if he uses 1 he gets one mark.

The major problem is these keywords may have synonyms. These synonyms should be considered by the marking scheme. Without the marking scheme, lecturer will make mistakes failing some who are right and passing some who are wrong.

Also, when a candidate, protest his scores, a remarking must be called and this time not just the lecturer but a selection of lecturers. They will vet the script with the marking scheme. "It is important to have and not need it than to need it and not have it".

If you have marked with a marking scheme before, you will find out you need it especially for the 1st1-10 scripts. Pause marking for a week, you will refer to the marking scheme again because you will forget some minor details. Leturers dont have time to mark all scripts at a go. In public universities with strikes, one time it took me a year to see the results. Marking in a span of 6months, only a marking scheme will guarantee fairness.