Here's a puzzle for you

[suityou01]

Use multiple bureaux.

Oh FFS

[EternalOptimist]

OK so you wanna hear the next problem? (final one, promise)

only if you supply all the information up front, you drip feed merchant

[tractor]

I was perfectly accurate in my description. The centres/schools are not trusted to read and collate. We want to scan the year 9s first.

Different coloured answer sheets is what I suggested, and has been accepted as workable. This is why I often feel like

This is fine of course until you find out that 80% of the eejits involved are colour blind

[SueEllen]

OK so you wanna hear the next problem? (final one, promise)

No thanks.

You work with cretins.

[EternalOptimist]

i need a method to distinguish year 9's from the younger victims - j saville
i'll colour code them for you - SY01

[tractor]

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I have a feeling this is all about foreign students and the spec said we want to SCAM the year 9's first.

[suityou01]

only if you supply all the information up front, you drip feed merchant

Mr Pot, theres a Mr Kettle in reception for you and he says you are of a darkened hue.

OK here you go.

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.

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.

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?

[suityou01]

No thanks.

You work with cretins.

Spot on

[Ticktock]

Different coloured answer sheets is what I suggested, and has been accepted as workable.

So, while technically workable, a solution has been accepted that will disadvantage one set of students over another?

That is, if the psychological effect of colours are to be believed. Unless you decided the two colours to use should be "Greeny-blue for one and bluey-green for the other".

[suityou01]

So, while technically workable, a solution has been accepted that will disadvantage one set of students over another?

That is, if the psychological effect of colours are to be believed. Unless you decided the two colours to use should be "Greeny-blue for one and bluey-green for the other".

That is the requirement. You call is disadvantaged, I call it prioritised. I was thinking pastel colours like duck egg blue, and pink.