Examination Time

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I apologise for the delay in getting out any blogs last week, but those of you who are familiar with the school know we staff members pretty much focus on one thing during final examination time: getting the results in, marking final exam papers, collating results and sending out the final tallies for all students finishing their course for the year.

Luckily, this year our February 2009 students (that’s to say, students who have started in February 2009) have been quite straight-forward to figure out their results.  Sometimes we have a small group of students who have not made the grade in one area (i.e. Electrology), and I have to go through their results by hand to not only double-check but also see if they have passed any other sections.  As you could imagine, this is a very time-consuming task, and I’m happy to say I haven’t had to do that for any of our February 2009 students.

Many things make me proud to be involved with the National School of Aesthetics, but one particular event is the turn-around time on marking examinations and sending out results.  For example, this year, graduating students sat their final examination theory papers on Friday, 27 November 2009.  They finished this around 2 PM.  By 6 PM on the same day, we had marked, moderated and, in some cases, double-moderated all the examination papers, entered them in our grading programme, and knew pretty much where all the students were at.

By Monday morning (30 November 2009), all the results had been checked over, all the medical aegrotat passes had been entered and double-checked and the report card/transcript-type report had been printed out.  And, by about 1 PM, all the results were neatly tucked in envelopes addressed to their respective students and put into the mail bag.  Those results should be to the students by Friday, at latest.

We wouldn’t be able to do this if it wasn’t for our wonderful team putting in a lot of extra effort to mark papers, collate results, moderate, et cetera.  And we are extremely thankful for such a great team who put in that extra effort to ensure our students know where they stand results-wise.

Students who have studied in tertiary education before would know this turn-around is one of the quickest in the country, and, hopefully appreciate it.  We at NaSA were all students once and know how nerve-wrecking it is to wait for results, so, as with a lot of things we do, we like to let students know as soon as possible.

This is another of the many reasons why the National School of Aesthetics remains a leader in the beauty therapy, nail technology and spa therapies training field in New Zealand.

Scott Fack is the Director of Operations for The National School of Aesthetics, the South Island’s leading beauty therapy, nail technology and spa therapies training provider.