Is there a hand holding thread for Y11 parents and GCSE results yet?

Thanks to everyone on this thread for their advice. If you remember dd 3 took English a year early (in year 10) and the four modules came back as A, A, A* and E, (overall B) which she thought was a bit odd.

Anyway, it has been re-marked & has gone up over 10 marks. Now a high A overall. She doesn't intend to do English later, so is very happy with the outcome (& that she doesn't have to do the exam again!).

Yes AQA sent the new grade without anyone having to request it which was great because DC needed A in Eng Lang for future A level options. Sadly neither maths or Business studies changed. We had to pay for both which amounted to £70, and when the grade did not change DC had to suffer all the disappointment again.
Still forward into A level.
regardless of the cost go for it just be a bit aware DCs can find the whole process very stressful especially if grades do not change.

Our remarks took between 2/3 days, I was amazed by how quickly they came back.

That's great Halfway.

Halfway do you mean your DC got a higher grade without even asking? That is incredible!

We had very odd English mark as well but school did not want to remark. AQA then sent through a higher grade because there had been a problem with a number of papers marked. Definitely ask for a remark if you have doubts.
Did anyone have a problem with Edexcel Business? DC given a C for a unit he had never scored less than a A for and mostly A* we are waiting for a remark.
Also music scores A* for composition in potfolio and the D for creative task which is essentially composition.
I got a bit tired of the whole thing.

I thought they were all done electronically now.

Well done to your DS, Snozzle. Brilliant news.

Purple I don't know what the time limits are, but could you still apply for just a copy of the paper (with no remark)? That way you would be able to see if something silly had happened, like missing out a page of the script.

PurpleAlert, it is always a risk on a remark and if the examiner has to find a huge number of marks to take the grade up then I can see why you might not want to risk it. However, I don't know if it's just DD's school but pretty much everyone who has gone in for a remark has gone up. A close friend of DD had an increase of 15 ums on her English language paper (AQA) and my own DD gained 5 ums on one literature paper to take her from an A to an A*. In fact so many of the Spanish papers have gone up a grade (ones that parents paid for the remark) that the school has decided to get the rest of them done. It's staggering really that there should be so many discrepancies.

Waiting to hear about my DDs PE remark- she was 1 UMS off an A so the school suggested a remark.

We decided against a remark on her English Lang( taken a year early ) she was very low in the B grade boundary so we didn't want to risk it dropping even though she was getting A* s in all her mocks. Perhaps she had a bad day? Perhaps the marker was crap/ turned over two pages at once- but we just can't take the risk of it dropping to a c.

If you Google grade boundaries it will come up Lizs.

I'm hearing about lots of positive remarks, fingers crossed for those still waiting.

Just heard today that DS's science that was remarked now has 3 more points so he now has a B. He was one mark away before so school paid for a remark.

Just found out ds was also within a mark or 2 of grade boundary for Maths and HOD is recommending a remark for paper 1 . Does anyone have a link to Cambridge igcse grade boundaries ?

No idea, sorry.
Am chewing my nails waiting on full cohort re-mark at the moment

As an afterthought does anyone know if the threatened reduced SPaG marks for laptop users went into the mark scheme, especially for English language?

See you at the double wedding, then!

Exex, not the same school so yes they must be.

Clearly there will be a mix up of identity at university where they are reading Economics, when they both fall in love with two Balkan or Ruritanian princesses who have arrived for the season and a ball, then save two Balkan states from the possibility of invasion by an evil foreign neighbour, are rewarded by being given all the oil and gas rights as well as the respective princesses and live happily ever after.

Ah, thanks, Molio. Oh well, 1st world problem.

Ellen coursework can only be re-marked if the school puts the whole cohort in, is my understanding.

DS1 has just realised he missed an A* by one UMS for his ICT GCSE. Trouble is he got max UMS on the exam so he could only get the coursework remarked, and I think that was marked in house?

ancientbuchanan - not sure about the schools (Bristol?) as I know quite a few schools do the same with maths & French (nephew in another part of the country did the same two a year early), but I wonder if our DSs are long-lost twins...

Actually, since she got her C she isn't very upset.

I am because I'm a dyslexic with an A for English from WJEC (from a million years ago) and they seem to have moved the goal posts so harshly.

There's all this talk of grade inflation and yet theirs no consistency at all.

On one hand she gets 100% and 98 % for Chemistry and biology, utterly impossible on our essay based three hour exams, then a u for an English paper she understood perfectly, even if her spelling is vile.

It just seems effort is randomly rewarded and that's not right.

As they said - volatile. Or was that just the marking

We've got an odd unit 1, just to mix it up a bit :)

Thanks molio - three marks off - that is so close!

Sorry to hear that your dd is upset Elephants. Blimming Michael Gove who re-sat his driving test SEVEN times

Glad it is not just us then! It just seemed really weird.

Maybe it doesn't matter long term as she wants to do languages and maths at A level.