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5.4The same check written twice

Costs pointsRubric Criteria - Overall Rubric Quality

The mistake

Two criteria decided by the same evidence: one inside a broader one, a negative mirroring a positive, or a subjective criterion restating an objective value.

Do this instead

Keep one, the broader where one swallows the other. A subjective restatement keeps only its presentation property, or goes.

Where it happened

One real task. Each shows the spot and what it should have been; click any line to open the task there.

the words at faultthe row or field at faultmissing from the taskwhat is righta task file

Example 28Visual Learning · 4 Leg A turns

What is wrongCriterion 9 checks that the two inspection maps are off the dailies index. Criterion 2 already requires the index to list only four files, neither map among them.

Leg A turn 2 hands over three map exports, among them inspections_map_q3.png and inspections_church_hill.png. Leg A turn 3 asks to move inspection project work off the dailies index and recount.

Where it shows

Criterion 2+5

In years_in_review.html, the dailies index lists only these four files as dailies: 2026-02_export_0224.svg, 2026-03_frame_0305.svg, 2026-04_frame_0416.png, 2026-06_export_0611.svg.

Criterion 9+5

After the revision turn, years_in_review.html does not list inspections_map_q3.png or inspections_church_hill.png on the dailies index.

What it should have been

Criterion 2+5Keep it

Criterion 9Delete it

if criterion 2 passes, criterion 9 cannot fail

How it breaks the standardThe four files criterion 2 names leave out both inspection maps, so an index that passes criterion 2 passes criterion 9. Keeping the maps off the index is worth weight 10 across two rows, and an index that keeps one map loses both. The golden passes both, so nothing flags it; the duplicate costs points.

The rule it breaksQC spec appendix · Rubric Quality Definitions · Overlapping/Redundant Criteria completely redundant because other criteria completely encompass the former

The full write up of Example 28

Catch it in your own task

Name the evidence that decides each criterion: two on the same line are duplicates.

Where the correct guidance is written

Section titles as they print, so you can search for them in the document.

QC spec appendix · Rubric Quality Definitions · Overlapping/Redundant Criteria

Criterion that is either completely redundant because other criteria completely encompass the former or multiple criteria that check for the same thing partly. This can also apply to criteria which have direct semantic overlap with oppositely weighted criteria.

QC spec appendix · Rubric Quality Definitions · Block Bleed

A deterministic value check placed in the subjective block, or a presentation judgment placed in the objective block. Count each misplaced criterion. The fix is to move it, never to duplicate it across both blocks.

A subjective restatement of an objective value is this.

Why it matters

Redundant criteria double weight one outcome, so a single slip costs the run twice. A subjective block that repeats objective values also stops doing its own job, which is grading how the artifact reads and looks.

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