Challenging Teacher's Controlled Assessment Mark GCSE

I didn't mean to suggest that teachers don't work hard to get marks exactly right. We agonise endlessly over this (precisely because there is an element of judgement required). If a student and I get on particularly well (or not) I will often get a colleague to moderate as I want to be objective and fair. The moderation done by the board is pretty thorough and no teacher wants the wrath of the exam board rained down on their department because of their errors

While there is some element of subjectivity much relies on the specified mark scheme of linguistic devices and variety of language would be expected. Going in citing artistic or personality issues may not be constructive. As there have said the ca will be moderated internally and a sample externally so there no yet be room for change.

We argue a lot in moderation

If your dc wants to rewrite, just ask for directed feedback and then ask for the opportunity to redo the piece.

However, if it's AQA and marked at a 7 or above, it's not really worth it. You're scrabbling around for a couple of marks when time would be better spent preparing for paper 1. The exam is worth 60%. If your child is an A-grade student with reasonable coursework marks, they should ultimately achieve the grade they are capable of..

If dc is doing IGCSE, it's probably worth re-doing the coursework and clarifying what the teacher expects.

Once you get into B grade writing, creative writing marks are highly subjective, whatever anyone says. One person's "exceptional" can be another person's "overworked"

Sounds like eng lang descriptive writing task to me. If so, be assured it is worth tiny amount of final marks (5%ish for our exam board) meaning that the difference between a and a* grade is completely negligible by the end. It will also be subject to stringent internal moderation, so if it was under marked, this will be rectified.

This is no biggie, in reality. However, if it had knocked your child's confidence, you could have a word with the head of dept as pp have suggested.

Who refused the meeting? The teacher or the head of department? Has the work been through moderation?

Whatever you do, do not try to suggest that the teacher has deliberately marked your DC down because of a 'personality clash'.

Whose CA was it?

You could ask nicely for it to be IVd (Internally Verified) by another staff member in the department?

Op please don't take this the wrong way, I'm sure your op was just written in a rush but there are errors in it - if you're communicating with the school via email etc over this then I'd try to make sure your emails etc are spot on.