2015 Yr 12 support thread

Yes I would get the title edited because I looked at it and wondered whether it meant Y11 or Y13

Welcome to Year 13! DD2 has been back at school for 3 days and has lots of work already.

Cherryburn - because the question was worded along the lines of "discuss the differences between the effects of x and y on something", and she wrote "x means that a, b and c happen; x on the other hand means than d,e and f happen", she didn't answer the question. It's obvious that she knows the stuff, and it's clear it was a careless mistake, but, it's an AS level question which she didn't answer. Thankfully she still has an A overall, so for everywhere other than Cambridge, her results look good. Plus she'll be more careful with proofreading in future . Got to find a silver lining .

Ds history teachers are recommending a remark having seen the Tudor paper but we need to discuss first.

Congrats to your DS Gloria. No marks for that question seems harsh MyVisions when she has obviously just made a careless mistake.

No news here so either the papers aren't back or the teacher hasn't looked at them yet. Wish they'd hurry up as the outcome impacts on whether a Cambridge application is still worth a shot and on subject choices to take to A Level next year. DD's feeling a bit in limbo. I imagine the rest of the class are too.

Good luck to all students with their remarks, I think exam boards must occasionally make mistakes. I got a B in Gcse French 20+years ago, no idea how,I was truly terrible at French, of course when its that way round you just count your good fortune and keep very quiet!

well bugger, the paper was marked pretty well . One question answered perfectly, except when she should have been discussing the differences between x and y, she got the differences right, just wrote x for both of them, so no marks for that question. And the other one, she picked a small case study and ran out of things to write about, so dropped three marks.

Her old teacher has said to email the paper over and she'll have a look, which is lovely of her DD may have put her on a guilt trip for abandoning her midway through the A level , but it doesn't look like there are enough potential marks to justify a remark.

Still to hear if the whole subject remark is going ahead, school has been remarkably cagey about the whole thing. But, if she did the same thing in those two papers, then she deserves the mark she's got proof read your answers next time DD

Congratulations to gloria's DS.

dd has got her papers back today - she got them sent to our home address, I don't know if they have gone via her college first.

I know the feeling MyVisions. Ds Maths papers are sitting on his desk but he is away performing in an Edinburgh Fringe show until Sunday. I am tempted everyday to slit the envelope, and show the contents to my retired Maths teacher mum to forget the whole exam lark and let him enjoy the rest of his summer.

paper is waiting in the school reception, DD currently still asleep in bed - would it be dreadful if I nipped out and collected it for her quickly scanned it to see if the horrid examiners have been mean to my baby .

We actually have a potential issue as to how to decide if a remark is appropriate, as both DDs teachers for that subject have left, and the replacements are both new. So just got to trust that either of them are clued up enough on the marking to be able to advise properly.

Good Luck to all of you requesting remarks.

We didn't, but I haven't heard of anyone who has getting their paper back yet.

We had a message today that photocopies of Maths papers (Edexcel) were back ready for us to collect from school - Physics not back but it is a different board (AQA). We have until 17th September to decide on remarks.

we asked for a priority return of paper, but AFAIK DD hasn't had anything back (was done on Monday).

Have name-changed in the wake of hackergate! About time I did it anyway...

Has anyone who ordered re-marks/return of papers heard anything yet? Not heard a thing here so am assuming paper not back. I guess they deal with the priority re-marks for Y13s first.

Ah, now DS would have just signed because his teacher asked him to -- I'm sure he wouldn't have realised he had a choice if he hadn't asked us about it.

Sorry, I stand corrected.I have just asked my DS1 and 2 and they did have to sign!

What I think is worrying is that it is quite clear that marking is not consistent and reliable. At AS level you have time to get papers back and decide whether you want a remark, at A2 you have no time as you are trying to sort out university places - it just adds to the stress.

Are you sure Madam? Do you mean for an ordinary remark? What would you do if their grade went down and they lost their university place?!

at our school a student's permission is not sought for a remark , so it cannkt be a requirement

His email sounds like a good idea to me.

It does sound as if his teacher in biased. Some are unfortunately.

DS has also just told me that on a (mock) joint assessment in this subject, he and another student wrote exactly the same write-up. DS got half marks and friend full marks for it.

I'm starting to think that the teaching team are somewhat biased here.

We had to give permission for a re-mark on one of DS's GCSE papers last year.

Anyhow, DS has emailed school to say he's very happy with his current grade, thanks, and could they please let him know whether this is an Extended Review re-mark with no chance of his grade being reduced.

As he rather ruefully said, it's typical of this teacher that the first time DS does really well, he gets a circular email from school saying 'these results are very unrepresentative of student ability...'