The CEFP commission produces twenty-eight to thirty tests a year. The approved tests are then left with the examinations department. 1.3 Pretesting New materials are pretested and feedback on the existing material is obtained by asking teachers for comments on the difficulty and appropriacy of texts and examination items . The written components are sent to the examination centre in Paris, which distributes them to a team of markers , who are practising teachers from the Paris school. They mark following the marking criteria provided.
Oral examinations take place in the various centres and are marked locally.
2.2 Training Mark schemes are discussed and a standardisation meeting takes place before marking begins. The Director of the Paris school or the teacher training adviser checks random samples of scripts . Problem cases can be marked twice. Very Good, Good and Fair and Fail, are sent to the Alliance Institutes. These are posted up for candidates to see.