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All rights reserved.\nWhat we will cover today\nMarking processes for the new papers and how we make sure students get the right results.\nHow we set grade boundaries and what it means for the new specifications.\nWays of reviewing and analysing your students' results this summer.\nThe systems and support we have available to help you.\nCopyright © AQA and its licensors. All rights reserved.\nStructure of the day\nYou are going to discuss some statements about the examination system in place for GCSE English specifications in 2017 and work out which might be true or false.\nFollow an examiner journey in order to understand better our marking processes.\nLearn a bit more about how we award and ultimately grade your student scripts.\nConsider the information you will get on results day and the post results services you have available to you.\nCopyright © AQA and its licensors. All rights reserved.\nStatements about the GCSE English 2017 summer series\nWhich are correct and which are false?\nCopyright © AQA and its licensors. All rights reserved.\nMarking\nOverview and recap\nCopyright © AQA and its licensors. All rights reserved.\nSo….how does it work?\nCopyright © AQA and its licensors. All rights reserved.\nHow exams work, a guide to awarding: bit.ly/2s6hWwH\n6\nThe exams cycle\n7\nCopyright © AQA and its licensors. All rights reserved.\nAQA’s e-Marking strategy\nCopyright © AQA and its licensors. All rights reserved.\n8\nWhat are the advantages of using electronic marking?\nElectronic marking introduces a number of benefits both to AQA and ultimately the candidate including:\nQuality of examiners\nCopyright © AQA and its licensors. All rights reserved.\nThe examiners complete a range of scripts in advance of being allowed to mark.\nThey have to show that the understand the standard before being allowed to start marking live scripts.\nThe nature of the training is through an online standardising platform.\nIt provides a consistency in the feedback across all the associates.\n9\nReliability: quality of examiners\nCopyright © AQA and its licensors. All rights reserved.\nReliability: quality of examiners\nCopyright © AQA and its licensors. All rights reserved.\nCleared to\nstart marking\nConversation with team leader needed. Another attempt at items before marking.\nAwarding\nWhat do you need to know and how does it work?\nCopyright © AQA and its licensors. All rights reserved.\nThings to know about the new GCSE grades – from Ofqual\nGCSEs in England are being reformed and will be graded with a new scale from 9 to 1, with 9 being the highest grade.\nNew GCSE content will be more challenging.\nThe new grades are being brought in to signal that GCSEs have been reformed and to better differentiate between students of different abilities.\nFewer grade 9s will be awarded than A*s.\nIn the first year each new GCSE subject is introduced, Ofqual have stated that broadly the same proportion of students will get a grade 4 or above as would have got a grade C or above in the old system.\n13\nCopyright © AQA and its licensors. All rights reserved.\nPass mark\nCopyright © AQA and its licensors. All rights reserved.\n14\n‘Standard pass’\n‘Strong pass’\nCopyright © AQA and its licensors. All rights reserved.\nWhat exactly is awarding?\nCopyright © AQA and its licensors. All rights reserved.\nAwarding is the process by which the grade boundary marks are determined at subject level.\nWe do this in a way that ensures the standard will be comparable with previous series and with that of other awarding organisations.\nWhat is the start of the awarding process?\nOnce we have enough marks in the system it creates a distribution of student marks.\nCopyright © AQA and its licensors. All rights reserved.\nWhat is the start of the awarding process?\nHere are some distribution curves from GCSE Mythological Studies over a 2 year period. 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