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, General Marking Guidance
All candidates must receive the same treatment. Examiners must mark the last
candidate in exactly the same way as they mark the first.
Mark schemes should be applied positively. Candidates must be rewarded for what
they have shown they can do rather than penalised for omissions.
Examiners should mark according to the mark scheme - not according to their
perception of where the grade boundaries may lie.
All the marks on the mark scheme are designed to be awarded. Examiners
should always award full marks if deserved, i.e. if the answer matches the mark
scheme. Examiners should also be prepared to award zero marks if the
candidate’s response is not worthy of credit according to the mark scheme.
Where some judgement is required, mark schemes will provide the
principles by which marks will be awarded and exemplification/indicative
content will not be exhaustive.
When examiners are in doubt regarding the application of the mark scheme
to a candidate’s response, a senior examiner must be consulted before a mark is
given.
Crossed out work should be marked unless the candidate has replaced it
with an alternative response.
Specific Marking Guidance
The marking grids have been designed to assess student work holistically. The grids identify
which Assessment Objective is being targeted by each bullet point within the level descriptors. One bullet
point is linked to one Assessment Objective, however please note that the number of bullet points in
the level descriptor does not directly correlate to the number of marks in the level descriptor.
When deciding how to reward an answer, examiners should consult both the indicative
content and the associated marking grid(s). When using a levels-based mark scheme, the
‘best fit’ approach should be used.
examiners should first decide which descriptor most closely matches the
answer and place it in that level.
the mark awarded within the level will be decided based on the quality of the
answer and will be modified according to how securely all bullet points are
displayed at that level.
in cases of uneven performance, the points above will still apply. Candidates
will be placed in the level that best describes their answer according to each of the
Assessment Objectives described in the level. Marks will be awarded towards the
top or bottom of that level depending on how they have evidenced each of the
descriptor bullet points
examiners of Advanced GCE English should remember that all Assessment
Objectives within a level are equally weighted. They must consider this when
making their judgements
the mark grid identifies which Assessment Objective is being targeted by
each bullet point within the level descriptors
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