4.3. First Examiner/s

The member/s who teach/es the content and affiliated to the faculty shall be appointed as First Examiner/s. If a person who teaches the content is not available for examination duties, another competent person can be nominated by the Faculty Board to the Senate to be appointed as the First Examiner. The First Examiner can be external if he/she teaches the content. The First Examiner shall mark answer scripts at first. The First Examiner shall often be the Setter of the relevant paper/question/assessment tasks. Chief Examiner may or may not become a Setter/First Examiner.

* Note: For an examination paper of a course of study, when the questions are set by several First Examiners, for questions set by one First Examiner, another First Examiner who sets other questions of the same paper can be the Second Examiner.

Duties and Responsibilities of the First Examiner:

1. To set assessment tasks following the Assessment Blueprint/Content Validity Grid as prescribed by the Chief Examiner.

2. To be present at the Pre-Scrutiny Board (moderation board in setting) and the final Scrutiny Board (Examination/Final Moderation Board in

setting) meetings and assist the Chief Examiner to finalize the examination papers/assessment tasks.

3. Create a model answer with a marking scheme and present it at the Pre-Scrutiny/Moderation Board meeting and agree on the marking

schemes/marking rubrics and questions at the same meeting and attend the Final Scrutiny/Moderation Board meeting.

4. To mark the answer scripts/provide marks on the assessment task/student assessment work based on the performance of candidates using the agreed marking schemes/marking rubrics (this must be blind marking to ensure validity and usefulness of second marking).

5. Submit the marks and the answer scripts of candidates (without any marks/drawings on those) to the Examination Unit/DR/SAR/AR of the

faculty before the deadline.

6. Any other appropriate task assigned by the Chief-Examiner.