The purpose of this audit tool is developmental not simply to come up with an overall score.
It is designed to help individual examiners improve various aspects of the external examining process. External examiners who examine in more than one institution should audit their practice in each institution separately since for a variety of reasons their practice may not be consistent between the different institutions.
The audit tool is not intended to be prescriptive but is intended to help external examiners consider if the provision made can be improved and to identify both the strengths and the weaknesses of their practices.
Note that an Institutional External Examiners Audit Tool is also available from the Centre's website: www.bioscience.heacademy.ac.uk/resources/audit.aspx