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India Receives Contract For Marking UK Examination Papers
Thousands of Britains General Certificate of Secondary Education (GCSE) examination scripts will be sent to India as part of a new computer processing this year, but the authorities here said no actual marking of answers will be done outside the country.
The Assessment and Qualifications Alliance (AQA) exam board, which is operating the new system, said no actual marking of answers would take place outside the UK. A spokesman for AQA played down fears that the new system would be vulnerable to problems and delays, insisting that the first time it was used, marking was completed early.
Theres no marking taking place in India, just keying-in, the spokesman said. Computer marking aims to make processing exam papers faster and more efficient.
Pupils complete exam scripts will be scanned into a computer file by the company managing AQAs computer marking, Milton Keynes-based Data and Research Services.
Candidates answers will then be divided up between questions requiring longer responses and those with just one-word answers.
The scanned one-word answers will then be emailed to offices in India where workers will type them up so they can be marked by a computer programme back in the UK, AQA said.
AQA spokesman said each single-word answer would be typed in by two people and any discrepancies would be picked up by the computer programme and investigated. He declined to give details of the Indian counterparts handling the contract.
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