Set up an H1 General Paper assignment
H1 General Paper (GP) has one paper type for each paper: Essay for Paper 1 and Comprehension for Paper 2.
In the Paper type dropdown, they appear as Comprehension (Structured) and Essay (Essay). Choose the one that matches your paper. For the full steps, see Create an assignment.
Paper 1: Essay
- Choose Essay. Use it for one essay, or for a full paper where students choose a question.
- Essays are marked on Content (out of 30) and Language (out of 20).
- You can start without an answer scheme (your marking scheme): under Do you have an answer key?, choose Not yet. Upload one only if your department marks to its own descriptors.
- Language is part of the mark. Do not add instructions telling ren. to ignore expression or grammar.
Try a few first
Essays are the hardest to get right first time. When you start marking, choose Let me mark a few myself first. You mark two or three scripts and see how ren.'s marks compare before it marks the rest. See Mark a few first.
Paper 2: Comprehension
- Choose Comprehension. It is marked question by question, like a Structured paper, so you must upload your answer scheme.
- Write the marks for every part, including the Application Question and the summary.
- For the summary, list the content points that earn marks. This lets ren. give marks for answers in the student's own words.
- Where different wordings can earn the mark, list the ones you accept.
- Marking only the Application Question, or only the summary? Still choose Comprehension. It does not need to be the whole paper.
Mixed or other papers
If none of the options match, choose Custom.... See Choose a paper type.