Romeo and Juliet debacle - students will have free access to their marked paper

[noblegiraffe]

www.tes.com/news/school-news/breaking-news/exclusive-thousands-gcse-english-candidates-could-have-marks-changed

OCR have apparently amended the examiners' mark scheme to account for the various ways in which students attempted to answer the incorrect question about Tybalt and are still investigating whether to amend grade boundaries.

Next week all affected students will receive a statement about how the issue was dealt with, and they will have free of charge access to their marked paper. Students who answered Romeo and Juliet questions will also be able to have their marking reviewed for free.

What a total and utter mess.

[clary]

It's so so poor isn't it. I am just rather selfishly relieved that this didn't affect DD (who did AQA) as it would have thrown her for the entire paper - which will have surely happened to some candidates :(

[ifonly4]

Mistakes happen, but it's so unfair on the ones who sat the exam. Who know whether the marks changing is beneficial for every student. Anyone would be disappointed if they don't get their predicted grade, but this will have thrown them and they'll never know if they could have done better.

[noblegiraffe]

It's such a major balls-up. They'd have been better calling the Romeo and Juliet kids back to sit another paper, tbh, although that would have been an administrative nightmare and very hard on the students.

[Peregrina]

Or if they had spotted it beforehand, which surely they should have done, even if the papers had been printed, ask the invigilators to announce the correction.

[noblegiraffe]

Well yes, corrections are read out to kids in exams all the time.
It's just baffling that one this big wasn't spotted, I wonder what their quality control procedure is and how it failed so badly.