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[fremma]

This, in case anyone might wonder, is *exactly* what marking is like.

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[only_takes_one]

It never occurred to me until I started working that teachers may also get equally frustrated with their jobs!

Do you grow an extra arm in the 2nd hour of marking??

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[fremma]

No, but your comments on their work get a lot less polite when you've corrected the same error 20 times ;-)

It's the favourite topic of demonstrators though (and I assume teachers in general are the same!) to just wonder at the things the students can get wrong...or just not bother to do at all.

[only_takes_one]

I had a tutor once, who said that he marked our papers by putting them all in a pile, throwing them down the stairs, and marking them according to where they landed.

Perhaps worth considering?