He's dyspraxic. Predicted A he got a B. Its ok as he is still able to do A level. He was mid to low grade B so I didn't get it remarked as I didn't want to risk the grade going down. All papers were fairly similar.
He hand wrote the papers on advice of the school. Which I agreed with due to needing to make drawings etc. Now wish now he'd typed.
I got photocopies of the two of the papers so I could assess the impact of his handwriting. (I'm a science teacher).
Very depressing indeed. In the six mark question (the one that assesses good use of English) he got 2 marks /level 1. According to the mark scheme
"Level 1: basic
? Knowledge of basic information
? Simple understanding
? The answer is poorly organised, with almost no specialist terms and
their use demonstrating a general lack of understanding of their meaning, little or no detail
? The spelling, punctuation and grammar are very weak."
His writing was actually its pretty legible although poor/scrawly/varying in size. He wrote 18 lines, included 10 specialist science terms/words all spelt correctly. He spelt movement (movment), oxygen (oxeygen), digestion (digestin) incorrectly. All the 'science' is correct.
It seems very harsh indeed. I think the marker took one look at his handwriting and gave a 2.
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Dyspraxia. Depressing impact on son's GCSE grade of SPAG in science.
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nostress · 21/10/2014 15:43
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