Regarding speaking

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smileyou1234
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Regarding speaking

Post by smileyou1234 »

Is there only one examiner decide our result of speaking test? or they have another examiner review the recorder later?
hacar
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Re: Regarding speaking

Post by hacar »

if i'm not mistaken the same examiner checks the recordings,i suppose that i read somewhere on internet
FormerExaminer
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Re: Regarding speaking

Post by FormerExaminer »

The majority of recordings are only listened to by the examiner. If they are not confident about a score, they might listen to it during the 5 minutes of extra time they have between candidates.

However, there are 2 other situations when someone else will listen to it.
First, when a student pays to have a remarked test.
Second, about 5% of every examiners tests are marked by a senior examiner to make sure the examiner is doing a good job. If the examiner has given a different score to the senior examiner they will have to retrain. if they do it twice, they will lose their job.
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