For me its more that people forget what’s involved and just say “slow graders”…it seems to take around 18 days to get the avg set to me, and on avg over a month after I turn it in to get closed out. So to get things closed in 2 months would leave me barely over a week to grade and write RTPs if everything else was avg.
So, my goal as a grader is to turn them around on my end in 1 month. I almost always make it. Can’t control the rest.
Mike W is right about processing time. I’ve had (and heard of) sets sent to me that were months old before I got it. I’ve turned in sets that didn’t close out for a couple of months, too, just due to AD/ED backlog.
I grade them when I have the time. Sometimes the time I thought I would have < the time I actually have, so unfortunately the exams end up lower priority. The bottom line is that for a set to land that quickly, you are fortunate that everyone’s time line was in synch. That is great and enjoy it because it doesn’t happen very often. 