GCSE review of marking (re-mark) - your experiences.

pistachio thanks. I’m just glad that we weren’t relying on that 6 for anything as many a level options needed a 6 in English language.

That's great news @clopper. Well done to your DD!

So finally got paper 2 English language back after the disappointment of gaining 1 in one section but losing 2 in another section on paper 1. She got an extra 6 marks in paper two which has now given her a grade 6. This is much nearer to her usual grades of 7 and 8. Am pleased for her and her teachers at school and also the refund of £75.

Darbs76
Thank you for your reply. Seems we were too many marks away for it o be in with a chance to have it remarked.
Daughter gutted as got what she wanted for everything else but has to go to a college as all 6th forms in our area only accept grade 4 as a minimum and none do retakes just the college's. So now can only study 1 subject instead of the 4 she wanted. A poor system for some.

Would be devastated if language went down, well any really

So you don't want the correct mark? Remarks are based on the assumption that the 2nd time it's marked you get the correct result. You are happy to have it marked wrongly as long as it is to the benefit of your child?

This is specifically aimed at any one poster, it's a problem I have with the whole issue of marks going down on a rrmark/review. People go on about poor marking but are cross if the correct mark is lower than the one initially given.

I think only about 5% come back with a change, but absolutely I would give it a go.

That was for AQA english language, both papers.

My DS has just had his remark. He was 4 marks off a 4 and it has come back with no change.

Dd is off in a few;
Drama, 3 off 9
Lit, 2 off 9
RE, 1 off 9
Language, 1 off 7

It makes no difference to next step, will gcse results make much difference to uni application?

Would be devastated if language went down, well any really.

So paper 3 RE is back and no change. That’s 2 papers now and £110 that’s been spent. We have gone for the final paper as in for a penny in for a pound kind of thinking. But DS is aware it’s unlikely to change. He was 1 mark off a 9.
His dad said 1 paper only. He still thinks we are waiting on that - whereas really we are waiting on review no 3. Dad paid for the first, so I’m paying £110 out by looks of it for nothing. I couldn’t not when he was so close. He knows I won’t be doing this next year though. He sat this one a year early

Our son was 1 mark away from 7 in maths. He’s not taking the subject at A level but DH was tempted to apply for regrading anyway until a friend who’s a department head told us that all papers within 3 marks of next grade are looked at again anyway before being notified.
Not sure if this is so with all boards?

Sadness if she is only a mark off school may pay, ours does. In which case may as well.

I'm not paying. The grade they are remarking makes no difference to us as it stands even if she goes up a level.

Thanks all, well that's weird. Dd collected her results without me, they told her they were sending her Science and English off due to how close she was and that was that really.

Dd has just said she signed something.

@Someonefindmeausername - you need to establish how many marks off the next grade your child is as grades can go up or down

@Sadnessandlight - we requested our review but the school would have contacted us anyway as 1 mark off next grade so they always ask parents if they want to review. School can’t just send off themselves, student must sign and pay - signature important as Mark can go up or down.

Even if papers are equally weighted it’s possible to get CCD and get a D, and possible to get DDC and get a C.
If the Cs were both the lowest mark possible for a C the D only needs to be one mark off a C to end up with a D overall. Likewise if a, student with DDC was only one mark away from a C on each D grade paper then they only need to get two marks over the grade boundary for a C on the third paper to end up with a C overall.

We've just got the English Ltd paper back and have gone up a crazy 14 marks!

He had been 2 marks off level 8. Now he's two marks off level 9.....

We think we know why it happened: he wrote an ambituous answer to the question that is usually considered less ambitous (the character question). So the first examiner must have quickly thought "that's a good answer but it's on the "level 7" question.....

Do you get your fee back for a remark if the score changes or just if a grade change?
In my view the former.

My daughter got mock and predicted grade 6 in Eng Lang GCSE. All her other results came in as 6/7, above or meeting predicted (Eng Lit 6) & then....AQA Eng Lang 3.
School said not a 4 so you're not staying & now on review she got a 4.
A faith school where her bro got A's at A level -thx

sent my dota remark on 23rd still waiting

@Sadnessandlight as far as I know if you (candidate/parent) didn’t order it and sign it off they can’t get a re mark. School can order them to look at papers but doesn’t mean they’re being reviewed.

Have those posting requested remarks themselves or did the school?
Apparently dds school told her at results day that they were sending three of hers off but we haven't heard anything back. They took dds email so who knows.

You have to request it via the school he sat the exam at, or rather the candidate has to. There are fees to each paper requested, refundable if the grade changes. Bear in mind marks can also go down.