Medical examinations involve the summing of scores allotted to various papers by several examiners. Often the examiner is faced with the dilemma of simplifying the final arithmetic to minimise errors, whilst at the same time giving differential weights to papers of varying importance. By the time of the final examiners' meeting, the problems in marking and in transferring scores from answer sheets to score books or final candidate nominal roll have been supplanted by other problems.The current combination of multiple choice questions, and subjective tests such as various types of essay questions, practical/ clinical tests and orals makes the clerical tasks increasingly difficult. These difficulties are compounded when scores have to be standardised to a common mean (Linton, 1976). During the background work for a study of the examination performance of a cohort of undergraduates at this medical school (Edouard et al, 1976), we realised what a considerable clerical burden this was on examiners and hence decided to design a card which would both be useful for the recording of individual candidate scores and perm.it the display of relevant information for use at the final examiners' meeting.Any data collection procedure must be simple and accurate. We have achieved this by designing a two-sided card based on the conventional 80-column computer card measuring 187 mm by 82 mm, and costing 23p per hundred. Any processing charges are additional.The card has been designed for use with its long axis vertical as our experience with another card (Lancet, 1968) showed such an aspect to be the most comfortable for use. Each side is printed in a different colour, black on the first and blue on the second side. Each side of the card has two areas: the upper area of the first side contains code numbers identifying examiner and candidate. It also distinguishes the card by number if there is more than one card per candidate. It also has instructions on how to record scores. Figure 1 show$ a card identifying assessor 76 and candidate 7889. The upper area of the second side permits details such as names of assessor, candidate, college, department, as well as examination reference number and date of the examination to be written. On each side, the lower area occupies three-quarters of the card, and contains marking positions for 10 questions, each presented as a pair of rows with the question number printed at each edge. Thus scores for up to 20 questions may be held on one card. Figure 1 also shows that a score of 47 for question number 1 and a score of 4 for question number 2 have been recorded by blackening the appropriate lozenges with 37