Hand-marked exams

Janet is not a fan of hand-marked exams.

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Janet: Three thousand scripts. 100% hand-marking.

Gladys: But you only had one question to mark. What was it? Paraphrase “The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence?”

Janet: Yes, but the possible paraphrases are endless. Even though the answer was cued, by “People tend to…” I still had to wade through reasonable efforts like “People tend to want something that others have,” to “People tend to regard something that they have as being better than what they have.”

Gladys: There must dozens of correct possible answers.

Janet: And they have to be teased out from the half correct ones. Like “People tend to think that some have an object of worth more than mine” or “People tend to envy others parmanents.” Think they meant “possessions.”

Gladys: Any off the wall?

Janet: Sure. “People tend to grow when they lose.” “People tend to break the glass when gather for ballgame.” But the best was, simply, “People tend to like green.”

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