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[atwood]

Anyone know anything about these positions, such as pay and duties, as well as how much time is usually involved?

Thanks a lot!

[edwardcatflap]

Which exams in particular do you need info about?

[atwood]

[shocking]

You usually have to do a training session before you can be registered as an examiner. After this your duties will be to grade the spoken exams along with a second examiner/interlocutor. Cambridge can be very funny about the paperwork so make sure you don't make many mistakes while you're grading people.

The hours can be anything from 2 hours to six hours depending on how many students are taking the exam. When I did it the pay was 16 euros an hour; I've never done it in Korea I'm afraid.

Hope this helps.

[edwardcatflap]

16 euros an hour sounds low. I've done the kids' ones and FCE in Korea a while ago and it paid slightly less than IELTS, maybe around 13,000 for a test, of which you did 4 an hour. All I know is there's very little demand here for anything Cambridge except IELTS and maybe BULATS

[atwood]

[edwardcatflap]

As far as I know, FCE, KET, PET and the kids' tests don't have expiry dates for testers so once you're trained up you don't have to retrain every so often. I'd suggest you find out If this is the case and, if it is, do the training. If it's not I'd say re-consider. The amount of training you have to do at first and then standardisation every so often might not be worth it for the amount of testing work you get. It is for IELTS but probably not the others,