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Diary of an NQT: Marking

With a large pile of practice exams to mark, our NQT diarist is constantly honing his approach to ensure his marking is efficient, effective and fair

It is now only two weeks until year 11 goes on exam leave and for some of my groups that means one lesson. I am looking forward to the time I am going to gain and hopefully I will feel a little less stressed.

I think as a teacher you learn to accept that even though we are all as busy as each other, spending our time teaching, marking, going to meetings, writing reports and everything else that we do, you are never truly on top of everything. You simply can’t be.

I remember in my training year thinking that it was a disaster when I hadn’t written the lesson review for a particular lesson – and it used to really bother me.

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