2.2.4 Setting the Specific Standards before the “Real Scoring” So after the test has been administered, the CE should read quickly through as many scripts as possible to extract scripts which represent “adequate” and “inadequate” performances, as well as scripts which present problems which examiners are often faced with but which are rarely described in rating scales: bad handwriting, excessively short or long responses, responses which indicate that the candidates misunderstood the task etc. The next step is for CE to form a standardizing committee to try out the rating scale on these scripts and to set and record the standards. All of the marking members should be given copies of the scripts selected by the CE, in random order, and each member should mark all of these scripts before the committee meets to set standards.