Marky vs manual marking
How Marky's marking compares with marking by hand, across the measures that matter to teachers and school leaders.
| Metric | Manual marking | Marky AI |
|---|---|---|
| Teacher time per paper | Approximately 10 minutes of marking | Your own call: you review as much of the ranked set as you choose |
| Class set of 30 papers | Approximately 5 hours of your time | Most classes in 20 to 30 minutes on Instant, or typically 60 minutes on Standard, plus whatever review you decide the set needs |
| Marking consistency | Varies with fatigue | Consistent; no end-of-evening fatigue |
| Agreement with the teacher's own mark | The reference | >99% within 1 mark on maths |
| Feedback quality | Varies with the hour it was written | Detailed, per-question |
| Analytics & insights | Manual spreadsheets | Instant dashboards |
| Misconception tracking | Not practical | Automatic |
| Student self-review | Paper handback only | Interactive portal |
| Parent visibility | Parents' evening only | Dedicated parent portal |
| Grade boundaries | Manual lookup | Applied automatically from the boundaries you configure |
| Scale to more classes | Linear time increase | Marked in parallel |
| Evening & weekend work | Often required | Reduced to a review, not eliminated |
| Data security | Paper-based risks | GDPR, encrypted, UK data storage |
What the figures show
1st
Marky is the first marker; you moderate rather than mark
99.2%
Of marks within one of the teacher's own, across 1,830 GCSE maths sections
Ranked
The class set comes back in order, closest to a grade boundary first, with the reason stated
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