Volume 1: Student Life Chapter 16 Controversy over the Examination Panel
The marking of this monthly exam does not need to be as urgent as the class placement test.
After all, it was the first monthly exam after the start of the school year, and the school gave the teachers two days to mark the papers.
The school has also specially allocated several meeting rooms for teachers of various subjects to mark papers together.
At this moment, the marking has proceeded to the composition part.
There are standard answers for reference for the questions before the composition, so it is not difficult to mark them.
But when it comes to composition, the difficulty of marking increases sharply, because composition is a very subjective topic and each student's writing is different, which really tests the level of the marking teacher.
The Chinese language marking group is also at its busiest when marking essays.
Whenever a teacher encounters an interesting or fun composition, he or she will briefly stop correcting it and share it with the teachers around him or her.
When we come across a well-written and meaningful essay, we will ask interested teachers to appreciate it together.
This is the only fun in reviewing Chinese test papers.
"Hey, Xiao Xu, take a look at this composition. This student's writing is quite interesting."
The person who spoke was Li Dabao, the Chinese teacher of classes (2) and (4). He was in his forties and wore a pair of black-framed glasses.
He is also the head teacher of Class (2) and the head of the Chinese marking group.
The person he called Xiao Xu was Chen Zhou’s Chinese teacher Xu Shaowen.
When Xu Shaowen heard someone calling him, he stood up and walked to Li Dabao's seat, and took the test paper he handed over.
Because the monthly exams are conducted in different classes and seats, the test papers are collected in order according to the seat numbers of each class and then bound.
Since there are 170 students in each class at Maochang High School and each class has many seat numbers, the test paper is a bit thick.
Xu Shaowen almost couldn't hold it with one hand, so he quickly caught it with his other hand.
After receiving the test paper, he first glanced through it, then read it carefully again. After reading it, he rubbed his not-too-fat belly and said, "This composition is well written. The characteristics of prose are also reflected. It has a sense of flavor. The key is that it is very bold to dare to write about love."
"How many points do you think you can get?" Li Dabao took back the test paper, pushed his black-framed glasses on his nose, and asked Xu Shaowen while looking at the test paper.
"How many points do you think you can get? You were the one who set the composition topic." Xu Shaowen looked at Li Dabao without answering and asked.
"Haha." Li Dabiao stood up and said with a smile, "I think I can give it full marks."
Before he finished speaking, Xu Shaowen quickly said, "I think so too, but full marks are not appropriate, let's say 59, there is a typo here."
As Xu Shaowen spoke, he actually pointed out a typo.
"You kid!" Li Dabao pointed at Xu Shaowen. He didn't even look at the typo. He thought for a moment before continuing, "Go call Xiao Li, Xiao Zheng, Xiao Zhang and other young teachers over here and have them take a look."
"Okay." Xu Shaowen responded and turned to call several teachers who were concentrating on reading essays.
After all the young Chinese teachers gathered around, Li Dabao handed the test paper to them , asked them to look at it one by one and then say how many points they could give.
First, it was Teacher Zhang, a female teacher. She read it twice and read it very carefully.
After reading it, the teacher handed the test paper to the next teacher and said, "This student is so bold. He dared to write an essay in the composition test. It's incredible. He also dared to write about love. I really don't know which class he is from. If it weren't for the prohibition of opening the bound test paper, I really want to see who he is. But, to be honest, his composition is really well written. The content of the composition is very consistent with the title "Inside and Outside", and the sentences are also beautiful. As for the score, I think if you put aside the factor that the student wrote about love, he should be given full marks."
After saying that, she looked at Li Dabao timidly. After all, Li Dabao's purpose in calling several young teachers over was very obvious.
It is nothing more than increasing the experience of marking papers and then taking a look at their personal abilities.
In Teacher Xiao Zhang's opinion, being able to demonstrate one's abilities is the most important thing.
"Prose? About love?" After hearing what Teacher Zhang said, Teacher Zheng, the third teacher who had not seen the test paper yet, was very surprised and disdainful.
He immediately started to refute Teacher Zhang, "Do these repeaters know what prose is? Not to mention love, our school has a clear ban on dating. I think the score you gave is too exaggerated."
Teacher Xiao Zhang just glanced at him but did not argue.
Teacher Li was the second to finish reading the essay. He handed the paper to Teacher Zheng and began to express his opinion: "It is indeed a prose essay. To be honest, it is very well written. The characters, ideas, words, and sentences are all very good. It's just that it's a bit inappropriate to write about love in an exam essay. I definitely can't give it full marks. 55 points will be enough. Also, we have to consider whether this essay can be published in the next issue of the school magazine."
Teacher Li is also the editor of the school magazine, but he did not dare to publish this essay about love in the magazine. For a school known as the strictest college entrance examination factory, publishing an essay about love written by a student in the magazine would have a great impact.
"What is this about? Instead of writing normal narrative and argumentative essays, students are writing prose? Moreover, they are already repeaters, yet they dare to talk about love. You still give them such high scores, isn't that misleading other students? Team leader Li, I think this essay can be used as a negative example and should be given 0 points directly." Teacher Zheng quickly finished reading the essay and said indignantly, seeming a little impatient.
"Don't be so excited. Students who are repeating are also human beings. They are adults now and have their own ideas." Li Dabao stood up, patted Teacher Zheng, and then took back the test paper.
The three teachers can be said to have three different perspectives.
After Li Dabiao sat down, he thought for a moment and did not express his opinion directly. Instead, he said, "Only when there is controversy can the value of this article be reflected. I know your opinions. Let's go back and continue marking the papers."
The three of them responded and returned to their seats.
"What do you think?" Li Dabao looked up at Xu Shaowen and asked.
"Are you talking about the composition, or the three of them? If you're talking about the composition, I think you already have the answer. You pointed at the test paper so many times with a pen. Aren't you thinking about how to give grades? If you hadn't thought it through, you wouldn't have called me, let alone the three of them. As for the three of them..." Xu Shaowen stopped here.
"It's okay, just keep talking. You don't have to worry about anything with me."
"Then I will tell you. I will give the three of them the same scores as the scores each of them gave to this essay." After Xu Shaowen finished speaking, he looked at Li Dabao.
"Well, I agree with you. Today's teaching should not be so rigid." Li Dabiao nodded, then turned around and asked, "Then will this composition be given full marks?"
"You worry about it yourself and don't ask me. I'm going to grade the papers." After Xu Shaowen said this, he quickly returned to his seat, his speed being a little inconsistent with his body size.
Li Dabao looked at the slightly plump figure's back, smiled softly, and remembered the phone call he had made before. He no longer hesitated, picked up the grading pen, clicked again out of habit, and then wrote down a score.
