Here's a puzzle for you

[suityou01]

This one has been a problem for current ClientCo for some weeks. Lots of meetings (I was not involved in). Yesterday I was involved in the latest round of meetings.

The problem :

A particular exam is sat by year 9 students. It is also sat by the year below. The year 9 student's papers should be marked first as they have to sit the exam. The year below are just brainy.

All the papers are sent from the schools to scanning bureas. The scanning bureau then scan in the papers over a number of days.

How do we ensure the year 9 papers are scanned first. Hint it is not acceptable to rely on the scanning bureau or school to collate the forms based on reading the title as mistakes can happen.

So, what did Suity suggest?

[Ticktock]

So, what did Suity suggest?

A workshop?

[suityou01]

A workshop?

It's good, but it's not right.

[mudskipper]

send the yr 9 ones first?

[Ticktock]

A troop of South American peasant women to sort the papers by hand?

And they have to do it in an underground bunker.

And in the nude.

[suityou01]

send the yr 9 ones first?

Owing to a very short marking window they have to scan them in as quickly as possible. If they were to send the year 9 ones first, that would involve the school collating them correctly. The schools are not trusted to read the cover sheet of the answer booklet and collate accordingly.

[tractor]

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Owing to a very short marking window they have to scan them in as quickly as possible. If they were to send the year 9 ones first, that would involve the school collating them correctly. The schools are not trusted to read the cover sheet of the answer booklet and collate accordingly.

Sack the moron teachers and invigilators and ask the kids to put them in two piles according to their age 8 on the left and 9 on the right. Any kid that doesn't get it right doesn't deserve to pass

Then sack the morons at clientco for having more than one workshop!

[EternalOptimist]

I would send a box into the younger kids exam room. put the papers in the box.
then I would send the box into the year 9 exam room. put the papers in the box

tell the scanners to scan them as they come out of the box

[suityou01]

I would send a box into the younger kids exam room. put the papers in the box.
then I would send the box into the year 9 exam room. put the papers in the box

tell the scanners to scan them as they come out of the box

The exam papers are stuffed into packets and loaded onto a truck and then driven to the scanning bureau where the packets are opened and then the forms are scanned.

The potential for mix ups is still to high. We need a clear and readily visible and un****upable way of distinguishing these papers.

[Bunk]

The exam papers are stuffed into packets and loaded onto a truck and then driven to the scanning bureau where the packets are opened and then the forms are scanned.

The potential for mix ups is still to high. We need a clear and readily visible and un****upable way of distinguishing these papers.

Print them on different coloured paper.