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IELTS examiner certification
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shawadywady



Joined: 13 Mar 2013
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PostPosted: Wed Oct 16, 2013 3:41 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
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and I'll email GZ yet again to get their POV


don't bother. It's in their interests for people to examine as often as possible and that's what they'll encourage you to do. But in reality as long as you examine every 3 months or so you can do it as infrequently as you like.
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canrun30



Joined: 03 Oct 2012
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PostPosted: Wed Oct 16, 2013 9:42 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Thanks...my 'office mate' (Chinglish? we share the same cubicle), who is certified (and certifiable!), says more or less the same thing.
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Mr. Leafy



Joined: 24 Apr 2012
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PostPosted: Wed Oct 16, 2013 12:46 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
vikeologist wrote:
If you're an IELTS examiner, you can teach IELTS courses. You just can't reveal any confidential information about the exam or tell people what grade they'd be.

So, Mr Leafy. Feel free to apply to be an examiner.


Thanks for that. I think I will.
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tangal



Joined: 11 Nov 2012
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PostPosted: Wed Oct 16, 2013 11:48 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
vikeologist wrote:
If you're an IELTS examiner, you can teach IELTS courses. You just can't reveal any confidential information about the exam or tell people what grade they'd be.

This reply by this poster is filled with inaccuracies, which is so often the case here, where longtime regular posters start to believe they have the answers to everything regardless of their expertise or experience.

There isn't any confidential information! When I took the examiner training workshop over a weekend in Guangzhou in November 2008, we learned how to properly score candidates using the band score assessment criteria and how to time and conduct the exam at IELTS testing centers.

I've been using this knowledge and skill set with students at several colleges and language schools since then, and when I took an IELTS training course in Hanoi two years ago, the instructor taught the same strategies and techniques, including how to conduct the test the same way the British Council does.

You can, in fact, tell students what band score you think they are speaking at. The sort of confidentiality this poster is preaching about is preposterous and misleading. This isn't NASA folks, this is EFL in China!

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Maintaining confidentiality is important. They probably wouldn't be keen to have someone do the training if they were never going to examine, because they'd be worried that you'd use the training to reveal confidential information.

No, it's not! Who cares (or really knows, unless you work for the BC) what they think? The important thing, if the training will be beneficial to your job and/or career, you get invited and you have the time, is to get the training and use all of the skills and knowledge you take away from it.

It's amazing how some of the posters here think that following unwritten rules and towing the line, which is fear-based thinking, should stop us from pursuing whatever training we choose to get as we trudge the happy roads of our teaching destinies.

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If you breached the confidentiality agreement, you would never be able to examine anywhere, ever again.

Really? And people are thanking this person for statements like this? This statement is so untrue, because just a few weeks ago I was paid 200 RMB per hour to examine students at a college near my main university, using the skills and techniques of examining students based on the BC format. And if I so choose, I could easily apply to be an official examiner at the local IELTS testing center in my area.

As an unfamiliar and far less established poster here, I probably won't get thanked for this kind of accurate information, but I'm pretty sure I'll get a good bashing from the folks who sponsor this sort of counterfactual and speculative advice.

If so, all I can really add is...touché!
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shawadywady



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PostPosted: Thu Oct 17, 2013 12:28 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
tangal - the vikeologist quotes you use are entirely correct.

there isn't any confidential info?? now i think you must be trolling. or just clueless.
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NoBillyNO



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PostPosted: Thu Oct 17, 2013 12:01 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
A lot of the examiners I know are leaving due to visa requirements not satisfied.
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canrun30



Joined: 03 Oct 2012
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PostPosted: Sat Oct 19, 2013 12:04 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
So then tangal you basically did what I'd like to do, no? You did the training workshop then never really worked for the BC in any capacity afterwards, right?

(I've not found your past comment to be troll-like at all, so I give a lot of credence to what you have put forth).
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vikeologist



Joined: 07 Sep 2009
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PostPosted: Sat Oct 19, 2013 1:34 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
I think tangal has some beef with me. What I wrote was accurate. , but then shawadywady pointed this out anyway.

Of course you can do the training, and then never examine. The reason I though it might be a bad idea was because you might want to be an examiner in future. If you reapply for training again, you're asked on the application form if you've done the training before. I think there's a risk that your school will use your 'examiner' status for advertising, and if the BC found out, that would disqualify you from being an examiner in future (or indeed now).

I just think it's a bad idea, and could cause you problems in future. Anyway, if your school want you to do the training, make sur