AQA GCSE English reviews

That’s wonderful but worrying isn’t it! How can this be fair on the students!

That’s brilliant news 👏🏻 . We are still waiting for English language to come back - dc completed the consent form on the 9th! It’s the only one we are waiting for now. I’m thinking it isn’t going to change. RS came back with no change in grade. Maths and Biology have both gone up to a grade 9 following review. He was one mark off for both of those.

Reporting for followers of this thread:
DS went from a 5 to a 7!!!! AQA language

I almost took the advice of a teacher on here and didn’t get a review. So trust your gut!

Up to 20 days

We are still waiting - my son's friend got their after 9 days.

HoW long did it take for you the get it back please?

Hi everyone - such a nerve wracking process! Hope those of you who are waiting for results are doing ok.

Anyone else had their Paper 1 English Language reviewed? My son is 1 mark away from the next grade boundary. He is panicking (and so am I) that the grade might drop enough to take him into the lower grade boundary.

Has anyone had marks drop? I do hope not - we are still trying to work our how many grades it would have to drop by to enter the lower grade. Is it 10 marks between each grade? There is so much conflicting information out there with how inconsistent the making has been this year. It is hard to predict what the outcome will be.

Please assure us that it is very unlikely to drop that many (10??) marks! Thank you!

Hard to get consistency yes, but I've seen clearly full mark responses (review agreed) given half marks. That's incompetence not subjectivity.

It was paper 1 for DS also, went up 4 marks and changed from 3 to 4. I can understand this more than the changes by 10-20 marks, it must be hard to mark the lit papers as its not a set answer. Ours said error in academic judgement and the 4 marks was on just one question.

DS just got his English Lit back, 5 marks up on paper 1 which changes his grade from a 3 to a 4.

Made up as now he’s passed all his GCSEs.

Reporting for followers of this thread:
English Lit for DC - no change
English Lit for DC's friend - went up by 20-odd marks (!) and went up 2 grades

Unfortunately that is less like than really bad marking over a couple of questions.

@MysticCatLady I know!! He was 2 points off a 6 and it came back 1 point over a 7 so very narrow margins both ends! He just got a brief email from the examinations officer last night but I’m interested to see where all the extra marks came from - my guess is one of his essays wasn’t marked for that kind of increase!

English Lang he did better than expected so we haven’t looked at that one

2 grades!! That's ridiculous! Huge congratulations to your DS, it's nice for him to be vindicated.

We didn't send English lit paper 2 but paper 1 went up 17 marks and a grade.

English language went up 2 marks across both papers and no change in grade.

We got English Lit back today and up 2 grades - all the additional marks were on paper 1! DS is so happy as he thought it’d gone fine and was on track for his prediction so it was a real shock on results day…….

It is wider. The data on reviews is shared at the end but it doesn't tend to be broken down by subject.

Interesting (I had wondered if this was wider than Mumsnet!). I wonder if exam boards are subject to Freedom of Information requests? When this is all over, it would be interesting to see what the breakdown is for the outcomes of reviews this year versus previous years.

I take it you’ve all seen this…

Congratulations on the English language increased grade!!! It's a shame about English literature but it's good that someone else took a look otherwise you would have always wondered.

We're still waiting for English language here. It was submitted on the same day as English literature which came back earlier this week.

My DD's eng language paper came back unchanged- still one mark off an 8 but she's not really concerned as she doesn't need it for a levels so we thought we'd have a gamble. Never mind! Guess there has to be a line drawn somewhere and she was on the lower side of it!

Great news @Newlittlerescue

DS has received his review back for AQA English Language and has gone up a grade.

It was a complete punt (his mocks were a 7, he was predicted a 7, and he came out of the exam thinking a 7) but he was just one mark off an 8, and given the uncertainty about marking expressed in this thread, we thought it was worth a try (as we had a balance in our ParentPay account from a cancelled school trip!).

DS's school doesn't get involved other than the admin, so we ordered copies of the two papers, had a look and sent just sent Paper 2 back for review, as DS felt that his answer to Q2 had been harshly marked (he'd been marked 4 out of 8). And it seems the reviewer agreed and increased that answer by 2 marks, which was enough to increase his grade to an 8.

We submitted for review on the 2nd September, so 9 calendar days.

It is so worrying there are such significant errors in marking. Obv in the English papers there is some level of interpretation presumably but 20 marks is unacceptable to be wrong IMO. If it is so tricky to mark then is it the criteria given by AQA to the markers that it unclear? In DSs case the question was marked as L2 rather than L3 but I suppose the interpretation of this may still be the markers view as it is not a set right or wrong.

My friend said her friend is doing remarks and found over 20 marks missing on one paper but she also said they go through looking for missing marks which I thought wasn't the case any more. DSs paper definitely wasn't checked for additional marks, only the one question that had a proper error in marking was changed, there were no other marks on either lit paper which I don't believe could be the case (up or down) as the answers aren't set enough for there to be no variation. Makes me wonder how consistent the remarking is also.

We don't do AQA for A level. Sorry to hear that it's bad there too