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Old 5th Feb 2001, 06:04
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The Weasel
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Ali Crom, I'm glad you mentioned penalty marking....It's down to the Bean counters as usual.The cost of marking written papers and backing them up with an oral exam must far outweigh the cheap & nasty 'multi-guess' exam proceudure,designed for high speed marking.The down side is, of course, that you have to have penalty marking to dissuade candidates (usually the ones with the falsified experience records) from taking wild guesses.
In the 'Real world'there is very little evidence of a penalty marking policy...Just look at the rectification called for against some defects...total guesswork,no hint of the MM ever having been consulted. Additionally,I'm sure you will have seen cases of people being 'promoted out of harm's way' to get them off the shop floor.Or the ladder climbers who get noticed for their 'apparent' performance, when all they have really been doing is cutting corners or forcing others to cut corners.On the News we even hear cases where top level Managers of certain Firms have been asked to leave following poor performance...with a big payout of course! So....Here we go again:
Penalty marking is:
a) A 100% failsafe way of making sure people know their job.

b) Applied equally to all grades of staff in all situations.

c) An excellent idea.

d) C/W the rest of the Multi-Guess system..A crock of****