Here's a puzzle for you

[suityou01]

Scan them all - which is a little obvious but..

How do you tell which papers are spoiled from

Which kids did not attend from

Which kids are thick enough to have scored 0

The chances of a kid scoring 0 are virtually nil. If in doubt pull up the scan. Or wait for the attendance information.

[EternalOptimist]

This will be when you get the attendance information.

Remember the problem. We want to differentiate between missing sheets, and absent candidates. This is so when the bureau says they are finished scanning, we instantly know if there are any missing scans.

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[suityou01]

Ok, a change to the process, ie now the teachers have to collect and send all the exam papers, even if the student didn't attend.

Yes. This is not a change to the system though, which was stated right at the beginning as being out of scope. Numerous times I hinted at a change to MOO or ways of working.

[EternalOptimist]

Yes. This is not a change to the system though, which was stated right at the beginning as being out of scope. Numerous times I hinted at a change to MOO or ways of working.

hinted ??

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[tractor]

The chances of a kid scoring 0 are virtually nil. If in doubt pull up the scan. Or wait for the attendance information.

But you have said numerous times, we need to know NOW.

[Bunk]

So we finally extracted enough information from Suity

Have you ever thought about attending a requirements workshop? You might learn something.

[xoggoth]

You should ask my brother. It is not relevant that the only vaguely IT job he ever did was back in the 1960s (he got sacked I think). His colossal wisdom allows him mystical insight into all technical problems in a way that lesser mortals cannot grasp. Not that he ever lowers himself to actually solving them obviously.

[suityou01]

OK so let's see if you had enough information up front shall we?

These exam papers are scanned and automarked. Attendance information follows at some point in the proceedings, but it could be before, during or after scanning. It is hand tapped into the system. There is no time or budget to do this differently.

OK. Fine.

Once the papers are automarked, the marks are then stored in the database. Centres may miss papers and not scan them, or they won't scan them if the candidate was absent.

Got it. Right.

How can we identify which ones were not scanned versus those that were absent without the attendance information so we can quickly chase the bureaus to find the missing papers and scan them?

Got it. Right. So we can't change the system and the attendance data comes in at a random point in the proceedings. OK. Yep there's definately enough to go on there.

[suityou01]

So in conclusion, I attended a meeting, where there had been many many meetings. Inside of 5 minutes I had ticked these two items off the agenda with my solutions...

This was the only thing I had to do yesterday.

[vetran]

get the invigilator to write Absent on the Paper in big pen. Review the 0 score scans and update.