Everyone passed, albeit a couple by the skin of their teeth. Incidentally, the way I had set up the marking system (ID-40%, Practical-30%, Written paper 30%), meant that I had no more than a very vague idea of what would happen to borderline cases until I came to add everything up, so it was pleasing to see everyone make it.
I was sorely tempted to deduct marks from those who got the cover page of the exam paper wrong (see below), but didn't bother in the end, since it was not affecting anything. I marked the papers first and later went back to enter the county/province info into the database. 10% of the attendees wrote that Dublin is to be found in the province of ... Ireland!
Once again, go easy on "errors" and "mistakes" made by the kids, because we all make them! That Dublin/Ireland mistake being a good example of a typical problem all players face at the chessboard - to see what is actually there in front of us, rather than what we "think" is there.
That was fast .. time to change my profile to CI , if that's OK.
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Too soon for that - the ICU will send out title awards - I'm just letting you know that you all got pass marks.
ReplyDeleteThanks again, Kevin for everything. I'm glad everyone passed.
ReplyDeleteThanks for letting us know Kevin.
ReplyDeletewell done everybody =) and a big thank you to you kevin for all your hard work, it was a pleasure doing the course
ReplyDeleteThe results of the anonymous questionnaire are, I think, quite interesting. For anyone interested, they are here:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.kochess.com/page8.php
One respondent also made quite a few suggestions for future improvements to seminar design, presentation & organization. I will put those up in due course.