easter monday.. marking essays, just a few left today. 2nd years, none really good so far - even the better students seem to have been defeated by my questions this time around. i tried harder in the summer to make the questions more interesting, more challenging but i end up wondering whether i have just made them awkward and have cost the students marks as a result. sometimes i feel so responsible and (as several of you have pointed out i the past) i need to remember that it is their work and not mine that is being examined. i could have written better answers to all of these essays (with one possible exception) and i would have done more work than nearly all of them in the effort. so here we are, at 11.20, with one 1st, 5 2:1s, 6 2:2s 2 3rds and one fail. just four to go and i doubt there will be any more top top answers..