Jessica Smith offers a high-value marking service for your school’s VCE practice exams.

Each essay that Jessica marks (three per exam) will receive between one and two pages of typewritten feedback, which amounts to up to six pages feedback for each student.

Enhance essay marking costs just $21 per exam plus $100 for eight to 10 pages of whole cohort feedback which students, and possibly some teaching staff, will find very illuminating.

Heads of English at Victorian schools should consider this cost-effective way to build students’ ability to do well in the end of year exam. Many schools that have used this service report a marked improvement in their cohort results.

Jessica Smith is available to mark small batches of essays, providing detailed feedback for each one. Numbers written on each essay will correspond to informative remarks in a four-page typewritten document, making the feedback highly personalised and instructive.

Schools may decide to use batch marking for a small number of enthusiastic students, obtaining permissions for subsequent distribution of the essays and feedback, making it very likely that the standard of essay writing for the whole cohort will be improved.

Batch marking costs $10 per essay, with a minimum of 10 essays. Consider the benefits of turning this into an essay competition that the School Council might fun, perhaps, in return for a naming privilege: the Edna Crabapple Text Essay Prize or the Percy Winflower Argument Analysis Award. Regardless, batch marking is a cost-effective way for students to get valuable feedback ahead of a SAC or the exam.

This service may be beneficial for schools seeking to improve their results in a particular assessment area: Argument Analysis, Analytical or Crafting Texts. Schools may also find batch marking to be a useful aid to cross-marking for internal assessments.

Batch marking is available throughout the year, except during the September school holidays, when Jessica is busy with whole-cohort marking for schools.

Jessica Smith offers VCE exam preparation seminars to schools. These 90-minute sessions are packed with original and practical tips to help the students in your cohort do much better with their VCE English results.

Jessica also provides sessions for cohorts at the start of assessments, so your students can go into Argument Analysis or the Creative or Analytical assessments with a lot of new ideas on how to achieve success. This is sure to bolster their confidence.

These tailored seminars are priced from $480 (including GST) for a 90-minute session. For more information or to make a booking, please contact Enhance today.