Can anyone explain how ds1's French controlled assessment can have been marked down from the A* given by the school to a D by the exam board (Edexcel)? We are really baffled by this and won't be able to ask the school until next week.
Ds1 is very good at French and got full UMS marks for all the papers he sat for GCSE. He has got A for every controlled assessment he has ever done and I assume these were submitted to the exam board. Yet when his results came back yesterday it showed a D for the controlled assessment. This meant he got an A overall rather than an A which he is very annoyed about.
Does anyone know of a legitimate reason for the controlled assessment being marked down by so many grades? It just seems extraordinary for there to be such a massive difference between what the school said he would get and the exam board's verdict. Especially when he is clearly good at French and got full UMS marks otherwise.
We assumed we could get this looked at again by Edexcel but I have been reading that it is not possible to get coursework remarked unless the whole cohort is remarked. Can anyone shed any light on this and tell me if there is any hope of getting it changed? At the moment it just seems that some kind of mistake must have been made and that it is very unfair if it can't be put right.
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French GCSE controlled assessment mark changed from A* to D
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hypotypo · 26/08/2016 11:46
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