I spent many years as an internal examiner when it was routine to submit one’s exam papers to an external examiner for approval and a ratification of sorts. Does this still happen as a matter of course? Anyway I quite quickly became protective of my questions, of their substance and the way they were worded. After all, I’d taught the course my students were being examined on. I would listen to what an experienced external had to say, but …
Over time I developed a strategy to cope with this ritual which went on to work quite well in practice. I would deliberately include a couple of spelling errors in my exam paper, the rationale being that externals either wanted or felt obliged to ‘do something’, and correcting a misspelling might suffice. And almost invariably it sufficed! The substance and wording of my questions almost invariably remained untouched.