Is plagiarism in GCSE English lit exam possible?

For me, that is definitely plagerism. She has to show original thought/opinion.

To perfectly replicate a revision resource word for word, I'd be very suspicious that a student had actually brought something into the exam hall or stashed notes in the toilet cistern. Plagiarism would be an attempt at diplomacy.

It's malpractice.

I'm struggling to understand this, how on earth did she learn so much rote that it became plagiarism?

Even if not plagiarism by the technical JCQ definition, as an English teacher and marker myself I can guarantee that someone who has written something word for word from a revision guide for their English exam will not be doing well.

I suspect the English teacher is trying to teach them a lesson here.

I would look at it as it's impossible for the teacher to give a fair estimated grade. Because she was lucky in that a question she had memorised had come up on a revision site, but that won't necessarily happen for the real thing. so she hasn't shown the teacher she knows how to look at a question and figure out the answer.
There's also the potential question on whether she knew those questions would come up. Does the school always use the same year (eg 2 years previously) papers so she could work out and just memorise that?

If she just took more general answers and worked them into the questions, then suggest next time she takes the answers she wants to regurgitate and rewrites them so it is in her own words. She can then memorise those.

Of course it's plagiarism if she doesn't reference it. The exam wants her words while she references the text. This would have been spelt out by her teachers for the past few years.

Exam boards would flag this as potential malpractice, particularly if it's noticeably different to the rest of the writing/come up over again.

Additionally, the front page of exam booklets now includes the line "I declare that this is all my own work"

Yep. That's plagiarism. The revision sites/books should be used to prompt students own thoughts, and not just be regurgitated by memory, especially word for word. It's an important lesson.

I disagree. From a quick look at the major exam boards and the JCQ regulations plagiarism regulations/guidelines only seem to apply to coursework/NEAs.

JCQ says "By virtue of its definition, plagiarism is restricted to those examination components where students undertake examination work in unsupervised conditions, such as coursework, pre-release work, or the compilation of research notes which can be used in the examination. It can also occur when candidates are permitted to annotate texts and bring these into the examination room. "

AT GCSE level, especially lower ability students everything will pretty much be rote learning. Answers will be reproduced from classwork.

Plagiarism is attributing another person's work as your own.
So reproducing word for word from a revision text is most definitely plagiarism.

By simply memorising revision notes, your DC is also only demonstrating that they have the ability to memorise, and not any of the skills actually required by the test.

Be thankful that this is only Year 10 school exams and your DD now knows not to do it for her GSCEs.

So she memorised facts from a revision site word for word?
I wouldn’t have thought it was plagiarism if it was written from memory in a test except perhaps for a creative story in English Language.
I would ask for it to be re-marked.