2015 GCSE Remarks - Any results back yet?

Also, by the time you take out the remarks of papers with likely very little change - maths and probably sciences to some extent, it's getting a higher percentage again for the subjective papers

Ah you're right, thunderbird. I just looked up the 1% figure and that's the percentage of qualifications taken, not the percentage remarked. The percentage of remarks that resulted in a grade change was 18.7% which is massive!

Bit annoyed at them promoting the 1% figure when most grades aren't challenged so the real percentage of wrongly awarded grades could actually be much higher!

Noble - I'm sure I read online that last year around 70,000 were re-graded out of about 400,000 appeals (not sure on exact figures but I looked it up before putting the requests in)

Similar issue here, the school admitted they had let my DD down. Due to internal challenges, they prioritised their attention to those who got E's at the CA and ignored those who had grades two marks lower than targeted. They admitted that this was due to lack of resources. They said that they should have picked up that DD had got much lower than expected and worked with her to have it re-moderated. Unfortunately, what would have been a low B ended up a C. Frustrating as she got two good As, leaving her 3 points away from an overall A. So went for remarking of these two on the one off chance, but I think she was already lucky to get these marks, so would be much less surprised if they went down than up, but decided to take the chance as highly unlikely it would go down to a C overall.

Unfortunately, it was the first time I felt the school let down DD/DS. It has certainly dented my trust in them

The school agreed to pay for chemistry as I'd paid quite a lot in remarks. The deputy head said as chemistry went up and they didn't have to pay, they would pay for the biology, so no, I didn't pay. I don't think you have anything to worry about if you've paid.

We've had issues with German writing controlled assessment and computing controlled assessment. German was moderated down 2 grades, so had it remarked but didn't change. With computing the school let the students down massively. Was told it was a mid A and came back as low D as did the whole class. So many times I said how concerned I was about the quality of teaching. Think something major was missed out to go down that much. My ds managed to get a good A in the exam by mainly teaching himself, for it to be brought down to a C overall by the controlled assessment. Not happy with school at all with so many things!

Biology physics and engkish lit

How long can we expect remarking to take. I've asked the school two weeks ago, didn't think it was anything unusual but your experience maj makes me a bit nervous. Did you pay the school on that same day too?

Awaiting Eng Lit results, but don't expect better marks. It's the CA that was the issue, so it was a case going for it as nothing to lose (would need to lose 17 points to go down a grade). In a way, it would almost be easier to deal with lower marks as we could move on to the frustration that she was so close to the overall grade she deserved (as the school agreed, but can't go back on what they didn't do that led to the CA outcome).

Incidentally, Ofqual say that only 1% of grades change on a remark. I expect speculative remarks that aren't that close to the boundary bring that score down.

Only 5% of my schools remarks went up a grade, which is a lot less than last year when English marking appeared to be a disaster.

We had a couple of maths results go up a grade this year though, which is unusual for us.

Were they on sciences?

How annoying! So frustrating being that close. My ds needed 1 on literature but it went down 8! Needed 2 on psychology and it went up 1, think I would have rather it hadn't gone up at all!

I have to try and tell myself that I doubt biology would have gone up 3 or I'll drive myself mad.

1 !! 1 poxy point on all 3 to go from A to A*

IGCSE we're still waiting for

How many marks did your dad need on each?

That's a shame, but at least you tried. I'm always going to wonder about the biology I think. Still waiting for igcse English.

3 Aqa back .... all remain exactly the sAme
lol

Not moved by a single point

Envelope here ..eek
have text and face booked dd saying can I open.
Uhhe why didn't I just 'accidentally" open it

The deputy head emailed me last night saying what biology was I referring to! Surely he couldn't have forgotten the email he sent me last Friday saying he can confirm that biology unit 2 has been put in for a remark? He said as it's inset day, he'll look next week. I emailed Exam Officer this morning saying I've checked my emails and I asked you for it to be remarked at 11.20 so how can that be too late and didn't get picked up until Monday. I bet the school are so fed up with me!

Majoso - that's really bad. I am starting to wonder if the same has happened with our requests as the exam secretary sounded very scatty and disorganised.

gloria and QOD - hope you hear soon

We had biology unit 1 remarked and that didn't change, But it wasn't until we got chemistry back and that went up 4 marks which I was very surprised at, that I thought it would be worth trying another biology paper. He had 83 ums in unit 1 biology, 91 in unit 2 and 96 in unit 3 so at the time I didn't think it was worth trying ones that were at A*, thought they were unlikely to change.

I've looked back at my emails at and seen that I emailed the exam officer at 11.20 am on Friday, had an email at 1 pm from deputy confirming it had been put in and yet exam officer said she didn't get the emails until Monday morning.

I asked exam officer and deputy head on Friday for a biology paper to be put in for a remark and had an email from the deputy head to say he can confirm it has been put in. I emailed exam officer today asking if the remark is back and she says it has not been put in and now it's too late. I've since emailed deputy head but had no response back. I can't believe this. I emailed them both early enough on Friday.

It was Chemistry, so I thought the least likely to alter because presumably the answers are either right or wrong.

What subject was that, nickname?

And well done to your DS.

1/3 is good!
Excellent news. Still waiting argh

Had 3 re-marks back today from Edexcel and CIE.

The two which only needed the tiniest amount to go up (1 mark out of 300) both stayed where they were. However, the subject that needed a larger change i.e. 2 marks out of 180, went up the 2 marks required so has gone from an A to an A*. DS will be very happy when I get to speak to him!