2015 GCSE Remarks - Any results back yet?

How long have you been waiting?

Still waiting the English igcse

We have been waiting sometime for a remark of Cambridge iGCSE in English Language. has anyone already received theirs and have any marks gone up? Our d was 2 marks off an A. The board remoderated the whole schools coursework which affected her result.

A quote from the above report for 2014 says that "For GCSE, 292,350 qualification results were challenged through enquiries across all
three services. Of these, 54,250 resulted in a qualification grade change (53,850 grades went up, 400 went down), representing 18.6 per cent of qualification grades challenged. This is an increase on last year when 15.8 per cent of grades challenged were changed, but the same as in 2010.
So in other words most likely outcomes are:

1. no change (most likely)
2. grade goes up
3. grade goes down (least likely).

Ofqual Statistical Release gives details for remarks in 2014. You can find it at www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/386109/enquiries-about-results-for-gcse-and-a-level-summer-2014-exam-series.pdf

noblegiraffe - I'm interested in the statistic you quoted that 18.7% of remarks resulted in a grade change. Does the information you have split that out between grade increases and decreases? I think that's what we're all most afraid of: an exam being marked down. It would be interesting to know how often that actually happens. Thanks.

Got Edexcel maths back today - no grade change. Ah well, at least we know and aren't left wondering!

Good luck to those still waiting. Hope you get good news

I think the rest of the remarks people are waiting should be back any day now.

QOD - have you had the igcse back yet? I asked for Ds's to be put in on results day (think it was put in a bit later than that) and came back this Monday, which seems a long time.

Well done to all those whose grades went up. Must be a fantastic feeling to know that going through remarking was worth it. It gives a bit of hope for the others.

I'm still waiting, it's been 3 weeks. I have emailed the lovely exam officer who said not that not unusual to wait that long and I will be first after him to know.

Hassled the exam sec again and finally got the result of the re-mark of Chemistry (which is dated 15th Sept!!)
We had 1 paper re-marked as it was so much lower than the others and thought they may have missed some out or added up the marks wrong. It went up 3 marks which wasn't enough to make any difference to the grade. Was just DS having a bit of a 'mare!

They are still waiting for maths...

I've emailed Exam Officer saying I assume we get a refund on the English as it went up, expect that's annoyed her even more! She's probably sent that email to the deputy head.

I don't think I've got the nerve or can be bothered with it anymore! I've had a long snotty email from the deputy head saying things like in future for me to only contact the Exam Officer and not teachers as it adds to confusion. I was told by him a few weeks to go through him which I have been doing. I emailed a science teacher for advice on what to get remarked and apparently according to him, teachers don't have time to answer about remarks, so the email got sent the Exam Officer.

Well done on the science remark - which science was it?

Dd got D in eng Lang, remark is still a D

Exam Officer emailed back saying English went up to an A not A*. I've now heard unit 2 biology did get put in for a remark and hasnt changed. Apparently they thought I was asking if unit 3 biology had been been put in for a remark even though I hadn't asked for that one, and that was why they were confused.

I had to email exam officer to find out. Ds said deputy came up to him at school and said it had gone up to an A* which I thought seemed a lot. I waited for an email, but didn't get one. Think ds must have heard wrong.

Great news Majaso!

Still waiting here. I did email the exam sec last Friday to ask if they'd heard anything but not had a reply. Will wait a couple more days before phoning.

Igcse English language has gone up to an A. It went up 4%. CIE give it in % not marks.

I still haven't heard from the deputy head whether he put biology in for a remark. I think he does know, is just delaying telling me he didn't do it. He said he'll look into it this week, but surely it shouldn't take long to find out. Not sure whether to send another email, but it's getting embarrassing the amount of emails I've sent. I just want to know! Exam Officer also won't respond to my email asking why it wasn't put in as I'd also emailed her in the morning, which wasn't too late in the day for her to do it.

always worth remarking if only one or two marks off. I've had one GCSE student in my class go up from A to A (she was predicted A so very pleased) and another go from B to A at A level.

School paid for these remarks as always worth it.

notusual - thanks for the insider info, that is really interesting (and worrying!)

with regards to remarks, I requested 2 papers to be remarked for my subject as they were very close to the next grade (1 raw mark for both students). The marks came back as 1 student gaining the mark, another not. Electronic copies of the papers were returned to with the original marking and the remarked scores for each question.

Going through the paper it was very clear that the student whose mark did not change had a question that was incorrectly marked on both occasions. Whilst it didn't deserve full marks, it definitely warranted being marked in the mid band and at least 3 marks given (I marked this paper for the board, so I'm very aware of the marking process, scheme and the need to positively mark).

The only thing we can do is appeal against any issues with process and not the mark. So my HT has signed the letter stating that the mark scheme and positively marking process has not been followed.

Looking through the paper for the successful student, I noticed that the original mark and remark was also incorrect for a different question! (think a question that gives a numerical answer, no working out needed so if the answer is 15, then 15 is marked correct) - as he was given the extra mark on another question we haven't appealed this marking!

This is a very high result. If we consider that the first marking was wrong, hence the change, doesn't this bring into question the whole marking process?

It must be interesting to remark a paper as it will be clear what the expectation is. If you are remarking a very good paper, than it becomes obvious that the reason for the remarking is an expectation of an A* as opposed to an A (for instance). How much does this influence remarking if indeed, it is so subjective that up to almost 20% are considered wrong in the first place?