The examiner

Who sets and marks what the platform writes for you, how it is chosen, and how to change it.

Papers, vivas and lectures are written and marked by an examiner. Nobody asks you to choose one: it is worked out from the subject's name and what it is for.

How it is worked out#

If a subject's name clearly names an exam, qualification or course that MySummaries has an examiner for ("CFA Level I", "SQE1", "A-level Physics"), that examiner is set without asking. Otherwise the subject uses General: no particular exam, with questions and marking drawn from your notes. Everything works under General.

The iPhone does the same matching when you finish setting up a subject there. If it could not run then (for example, you were offline), the subject uses General until you change it, or until something is first made for it on the web.

A board outside any subject uses your account's own examiner, General until you change it. It covers every board outside a subject and is never borrowed from one.

The examiner shows as one line on a board's Exam, Oral and Lecture tabs: Examiner: General, or the exam's name.

Changing it#

Press Change on that line. On the iPhone, Examiner in the subject's ⋯ menu opens the same thing. Type an exam, course, qualification or goal, search, and tap the one you mean. No particular exam sets General. For a subject, the change applies to every board in it; on a board outside a subject, it changes your account's examiner.

With a particular exam set, you can add its date, which is optional. The line then counts down to it, and so does the subject's screen on the iPhone.

On a subject shared with you, you can see the examiner, but only the owner can change it.

Exams#

With a particular exam set, papers follow that exam's format and are marked the way its examiners mark. Under General they are set and marked from your notes.

Orals#

The examiner sets how a viva runs, how it speaks (accent and register, where the exam has them), the kinds of station it suggests, and the criteria you are scored against. Under General those are knowledge and accuracy, reasoning and judgement, structure and prioritisation, and communication and clarity.

Lectures#

A lecture is pitched at the examiner's learner and read in its accent and register. Nothing in a lecture is marked.

Switching examiner#

A new examiner applies to what you make from now on. Existing papers, lectures and stations keep the examiner they were made for, and nothing is re-marked or rewritten. Where that no longer matches, the row says so, and you can make a fresh one if you want.