#Sat essay grader salary how to

What was the most memorable thing you've read/happened during grading? Whether or not we noticed is irrelevant, since we're not allowed to score on correctness of content. I lied a lot in my essay, did you notice? SAT essays are scanned, and we read them on a computer. If someone has, did you give them the max credit? That's a rather broad question, so I'm not entirely sure what else to answer.ġ.Has anyone ever stapled money inside a test booklet that you received? 2. Honestly, if you look at the Essay Scoring Framework, it's pretty comprehensive.

#Sat essay grader salary how to

We're given a pretty fair amount of training on how to score and what to look for. Why people score what they do, what you guys look for, etc. To answer the questions in the original thread: It's been a few years, and it looks like I dumped most of my emails from that time, but I do have this one as proof. Even with that, this is still a different account than the one I regularly post with-I had to sign an NDA when I left, and while I think it was only good for four years, I'd still rather be safe than sorry, on the off chance I ever decide that I want to work for them again. I am no longer an SAT essay scorer, and if I were, I wouldn't be doing this AMA. In that respect, it was a successful endeavor. That said, I didn't do it for the money-I did it to learn more about the essay so that I could help my students better prepare for it.

Whee.) Which, given that I already had my normal grading load to keep up with, wasn't enough to make it worth it. It wasn't worth it financially, either-$12/hour for training and $17/hour for scoring (back then, anyway. Frankly, it was a lousy job, because I taught English all day and then went home and scored essays in the evenings. WOW.įollowing up on this request, I was an SAT scorer employed by Pearson. Thus I shall go down in history as the perpetrator of the MOST BORING AMA EVER.

EDIT: I really can't believe that this was on the front page for most of the day.