Julia's seminar notes: Marking FCE and CAE writing 13.1.15

The notes from today's seminar can be found on the Granollers server here:

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Julia suggests that you look through the documents in the following order.

1. Food for thought – powerpoint ‘A few recommendations from Cambridge when preparing for paper 2 writing.
2. Mark one of Miriam’s FCE SWT’s as you would do mark a SWT. Pass? Fail? After this we’ll see which criteria we should be using etc etc.
3. Word doc – criteria (in the seminar I got the teachers to put which criteria they thought should go in which place on the grid) The first page is the empty grid and the 2^nd page is the completed grid)
4. We talked about the meaning of certain words from the criteria and I gave some examples taken from the FCE Handbook for Teachers p23 - Glossary of terms
5. Marking. Looked at the question + gave out Candidate A script with the marks and used that as a ‘benchmark’
6. Marking: Candidate D script (a story) – Teachers mark and compare and then compare with Camb comments.
7. Marking: Candidate F (Reader question)– Teachers mark and compare and then compare with Camb comments.
8. Marking: Sample H (p116) (A report). Teachers mark and compare and then compare with Camb comments.
9. Marking: Now re- mark Miriam’s student’s SWT (the first one we looked at at the beginning of the seminar. Teachers mark IN MORE DETAIL and compare and then compare with what Miriam, Julia and Steve thought. - *I’ve got the marks for this one!
10. Marking: CAE BK 1 Candidate E (Pelican Brief) A bit of an experiment!!! Teachers mark using FCE criteria, compare and then compare with Camb comments for CAE! In theory the comments for CAE are 2 lower than FCE. So if you think it’s a 5 at FCE, it should say a 3 at CAE!! 

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