Some part A level Biology paper not marked as it was missing. What do we do?

Just be careful re: resits
My DD did resits because I was on cancer pathway throughout her second year (including major operations), and she was caring for me.

She had offer the following Feb, but was only told in April/ may that offer was Astar A A rather than the usual AAB because it was resits.

My dd is getting a remark and her teacher has definitely got and seen the paper because she talked about it when she emailed dd. I know some of yours is lost but where is the rest of it I wonder.

Have you got any further?

It doesn’t happen often and as an examiner, we raise queries when the pages aren’t all there (or scanned incorrectly in some way). Your exams or head of sixth form need to get themselves moving.

Is the course she wants to do in Clearing? How does she feel about other choices? This could be other universities or other courses like joint honours biology with something else - that might also give her the possibility of switching into straight biology after the first year. I would look at all those options as the missing paper issue may not get you anywhere.

The candidate is certainly entitled to have access to their scripts so that shouldn't be an issue. But it sounds like the school sent the other papers for review without checking them first - which in my view is never a good idea.

Sorry OP. This does happen from time to time, I guess the logistics of the whole system is so complicated and huge. Whilst I'm sure the exam board is already conducting a search to see if the original paper can be found for that exam, it is normal to create an assessed grade and these tend to be pretty accurate. In your case, rather than spending months fighting for the first place, I would be looking at Clearing so your daughter can start in September with the rest of her cohort. Sometimes we just have off days with exams - personally I flunked my A2 Biology and it did pull down my overall A Level grade. But, whilst it still irks me now on the rare occasions I think about it, it hasn't affected the life plans I had in place at 18.

Only if you get the original paper. Copies of the paper are electronic and don't affect what you can do next.

I know that. But I thought she was talking about the paper that hasn't been reviewed.

When the paper is sent back to you OP, you can’t then submit it for a remark.

This would automatically be carried out as part of the review process.

Has someone looked at it to see if there are any obviously missed marks, apart from in the missing section?

As pp have said it can happen though it’s rare

I’d ask for the paper to view (free) and probably also review the paper although as you’ve found it could go down.

explain to uni the missing bit but if she’s averaging C even after review of marking, why does she think she’s done so much better in the other paper? Was it particularly stronger topics? If she has evidence of this in mocks the school may be able to add notes to an appeal on the basis of the lost pages but I’m not sure at what point the school are allowed to intervene

fwiw there’s also an appeal after the review but that’s expensive and I’d definitely try have in depth conversation with school about her specific papers. We’ve only done it once in my 16 years teaching (although she did go from b to a*! We wouldn’t have supported it if we didn’t think the marking was wrong)

How did you manage to get an exam paper reviewed in such a short timescale? The results came out last Thursday, a request for a review would most likely not have been submitted til Friday and you say you got the outcome on Tuesday?

This sounds like a scanning error. I suspect that you might need to ask for a review of that paper anyway - because if part was missing they should've marked the rest - and hope that they can track down the missing part.

you can ask to have a copy of the paper, then you will have an idea of how much is missing. It would be useful for you to have this anyway to aid in your complaint, the more that is lost the stronger your complaint would be.
I'm not sure if the exam board will agree to remark part of a paper as I've not experienced that before. However, if it is an option I would see if your daughter's teacher (if they are available as may be abroad etc) could look over the paper to look for any obvious errors in marking as they will have access to the mark schemes. I've just been doing the same thing for my students who are considering a remark over the weekend. They may be available or someone within the same department area may be able to help especially if they are in school for GCSE results on Thursday.
But as said before, contacting the university is your best option for a swift and hopefully favourable outcome. Unless it is something highly over subscribed such as medicine or vet medicine you may be able to persuade them to reconsider.

Yes all papers are scanned and marked online now.
This is absolutely awful - lost part of her paper!?

Are they scanned or something before being marked? Hence, perhaps, why some parts get "lost"?