Anonymise your scripts please

[lts2]

Just thought I would share with the sinner audience that folding that piece of paper to cover your name does not take away from the fact that the marker knows who you are. Along with the answer booklets they also get an attendance list with our names beside matriculation numbers. As usual, the St Andrews system is totally flawed.

[McK]

Quoting lts2 from 16:58, 21st May 2007
Just thought I would share with the sinner audience that folding that piece of paper to cover your name does not take away from the fact that the marker knows who you are. Along with the answer booklets they also get an attendance list with our names beside matriculation numbers. As usual, the St Andrews system is totally flawed.

1) That is not true of all subjects. I used to mark in languages and was not given such a list.

2) Most if not all markers are not bothered whose script they are marking. Believe me, when you have 150 of the f*ckers in front of you at ten o'clock at night the last thing you are thinking about is matching names, numbers and scripts to see who wrote what.

[Steveo]

Quoting lts2 from 16:58, 21st May 2007
As usual, the St Andrews system is totally flawed.

As usual? You make the place sound like a circus. What else doesn't work here?

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[lauremw]

We don't get a list of matric numbers when we're marking art history exams. And like McK said, when you have a huge stack of exams in front of you with a two day turn-around time you really don't care about "well I think this handwriting belongs to student A". With the randomisation it's also pretty unlikely that you get any of your own students' exams. I think it's a pretty fair way to do it, actually.

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[Lid]

Anonymisation is a joke. For one, most lecturers and examiners have access to Data Warehouse, meaning they only need type the matric number in to find out who you are. Further, if it's your tutor, or your lecturer marks continuous assessment, they probably know your handwriting anyway.

What's even more of a joke is that some people are paranoid enough to think that their tutor would bother to mark people down for anything but academic merit.

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[lts2]

Its not that I particularly care and yes I doubt that most markers bother. I was surprised that some markers get these attendance lists and I just dont think its quite right to make out that its all anoymised when it isn't at all. And also, in a class of 10 it is a bit different as we know the lecturers and they know our handwritting anyway.

[Eliot Wilson]

Quoting Lid from 18:03, 21st May 2007
Further, if it's your tutor, or your lecturer marks continuous assessment, they probably know your handwriting anyway.

Good God, I never did when I taught. But then, I generally didn't let my little darlings hand in stuff written in their own fair paws. So I wouldn't have had a clue.

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Death: "Don't patronise me."

[JAK]

Is there a rule that all exams must be anonymised?

I'd assumed so, but then Symbolic Computation one really wasn't. As in, it had no anonymising measures at all, as far as I know. Although, that wasn't really an exam, I don't think.

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[lts2]

Good God, I never did when I taught. But then, I generally didn't let my little darlings hand in stuff written in their own fair paws. So I wouldn't have had a clue.

Well I went to get some assessed work back that I'd stupidly not written my name on and my lecturer said something along the lines of 'Oh its ok, I know your handwriting anyway.' Quite funny, you'd think being in the 'top 20 scientists likely to change the world' or whatever, he'd have better things to do! Hehe. I'm a 4/5th year physicists, which might explain things.

[rob 'f*ck off' wine boy]

I WILL ANONYMISE YOU!!!

Ha ha ha! Anon!

[Malcolm]

In Soviet Russia, exam anonymises you.

Surely if it's a smaller number of people, like Honours Sustainable Development, it might become obvious after a while whose is whose even with the anonymity measures in place?

[JAK]

Quoting Malcolm from 22:26, 21st May 2007
In Soviet Russia, exam anonymises you.

Surely if it's a smaller number of people, like Honours Sustainable Development, it might become obvious after a while whose is whose even with the anonymity measures in place?

Case in point, exams given in departmental accommodation, for those with extra time.

As of this semester, those with extra time sit with everyone else for the exams in departmental accomodation. And as I was the only one in my class with extra time, it meant I had to hand in my "anonymised" script to my lecturer who was reading over all the other ones. Which, really, is just pointless. Does anyone know why we're supposed to anonymise, given it's apparently not something you have to do? [MT4111 and 5611 had no anonymisation at all, as far as I'm aware]

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I got my BBC

[box_of_delights]

Quoting lts2 from 21:57, 21st May 2007

Good God, I never did when I taught. But then, I generally didn't let my little darlings hand in stuff written in their own fair paws. So I wouldn't have had a clue.

Well I went to get some assessed work back that I'd stupidly not written my name on and my lecturer said something along the lines of 'Oh its ok, I know your handwriting anyway.' Quite funny, you'd think being in the 'top 20 scientists likely to change the world' or whatever, he'd have better things to do! Hehe. I'm a 4/5th year physicists, which might explain things.

In every subject I've done in Arts (bar one in first year) it's been expressely forbidden to hand in any assessed work that isn't typed. How would a tutor recognise your handwriting?

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[JAK]

Quoting box_of_delights from 22:36, 21st May 2007

Quoting lts2 from 21:57, 21st May 2007

Good God, I never did when I taught. But then, I generally didn't let my little darlings hand in stuff written in their own fair paws. So I wouldn't have had a clue.

Well I went to get some assessed work back that I'd stupidly not written my name on and my lecturer said something along the lines of 'Oh its ok, I know your handwriting anyway.' Quite funny, you'd think being in the 'top 20 scientists likely to change the world' or whatever, he'd have better things to do! Hehe. I'm a 4/5th year physicists, which might explain things.

In every subject I've done in Arts (bar one in first year) it's been expressely forbidden to hand in any assessed work that isn't typed. How would a tutor recognise your handwriting?

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http://standrews.facebook.com/profile.php?id=37101440

I've never had that expressly forbidden in any of the science courses I've done. In many, it's basically required.

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[hoopy froodette]

Quoting box_of_delights from 22:36, 21st May 2007
In every subject I've done in Arts (bar one in first year) it's been expressely forbidden to hand in any assessed work that isn't typed. How would a tutor recognise your handwriting?

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http://standrews.facebook.com/profile.php?id=37101440

In a subject like Latin or Greek you may have to hand unseen translations in fairly often and it's not usual to type them up. The groups are often very small, so if your handwriting is particularly distinctive it's possible it could be recognised.

Also, tutors sometimes pick up the exam papers when they see a candidate leave early and read them--in this case they know exactly whose paper it is.

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[David Bean]

Quoting Malcolm from 22:26, 21st May 2007
In Soviet Russia, exam anonymises you.

I've heard versions of this joke before, but I don't recognise the source. Can anyone enlighten a poor little neo-Mancunian?

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[[James]]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yakov_Smirnoff

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_reversal

[rob 'f*ck off' wine boy]

Quoting [James] from 00:21, 22nd May 2007
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yakov_Smirnoff

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_reversal

No, sorry, wikipedia is not an acceptable source here at The Sinner. Please go do your own research and then return.

[[James]]

Quoting rob 'f*ck off' wine boy from 00:31, 22nd May 2007
No, sorry, wikipedia is not an acceptable source here at The Sinner. Please go do your own research and then return.

The Yakov Smirnoff page actually has a warning saying "this article or section may contain original research", so that's near enough for me.

[David Bean]

It'll do for me, thank you!

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