GCSE English Lit and Language review of marking

Sounds like you’ll be fine. Our situation is a bit different in that Dd2 has never passed lit before, so the 5 is a great mark. I suspect the 3 on paper one was correct and she just got very lucky with the poetry questions on paper 2.

Sorry my message wasn’t clear. Whole post is about Eng lang, not lit. Good luck to your DC. At least presumably not limiting A level choice (I know from other subjects with my DC this is not necc making them feel better right now)

He signed a form when collecting results. I think they all did. School then informed me.

Same for us. 9 language and 1 mark off a 7 for lit and taking lit for A level. All 7s to 9s, except for this 1grade 6, best subject is her worst score. She was practicing essays and getting 28. One has been marked as 13 which she was horrified by. Maybe she just cpmpletely misinterpreted the question.
English teacher thinks it is harsh marking.

Ask someone who knows what they're doing to look at the paper first.

They shouldn't be going to review without the permission of the candidate.

DC one mark off a 7. Predicted an 8 but felt he had done v badly so was actually preparing for the worst. Eng lang is very strange, he has had a 9,7 and 6 over mocks and exam, sadly the wrong way round.

School informed me going for a review

I've read so much a lot reviews now I feel like it's coming out my ears but everything I've read it seems the successful ones are almost always the ones where marking is very different paper to paper. That's a big discrepancy.

Slightly!
I wasn't going to have it reviewed at all when I saw the overall mark and how close it was to the lower boundary.

But when I got the marks for the individual papers, it just doesn't make sense. If she'd got the same percentage on each paper, she would have just missed the 6, and that feels right for how she felt after the exams and what we would all have expected.

I have asked school to look at the papers first and if they think she just really messed up then we won't send that one. I will be a bit anxious, but only 0.1% of papers go down.

If the marks in each paper were the same, I wouldn't be doing it, and would also be more anxious - but it's the difference between the two that doesn't add up.

Are you not worried about the grade going down? My dd got a 5 in lit, but a high 6 in one paper and a 3 in the other. We wondered about reviewing the paper that got a 3, but worried about dropping down to a 4 overall.

Have requested that we get access to the papers for lit and Langbut radio silence from the school, don’t know if they have done anything about it yet. Still don’t know DCs actual score for Lang.

Edexcel is the only one that allows priority reviews for GCSEs- that what you guys paid for?

It was Pearson Edexcel.

Dc English lit teacher looked at the scripts. She felt the examiners had been quite generous on one paper but not the other so we just asked for a review of that paper. I think dc friend had two papers looked at if I remember correctly.

I think if your dc is close to the boundary then it’s worth paying for a review if the teacher recommends it.

I think it’s far more common to get extra marks for English than the stem subjects.

You must be so happy! 🥰 what exam board was that?

Yes - he thought at least a mark or two in each of the language papers (we’re doing 1 at a time in case 1 goes up and 1 down). He was less sure about literature but said ‘maybe’ about the unseen poetry…

That's incredible! Was it 2 papers that were remarked? So 3 and 10 marks found across 2 papers?

Dc reviewed for Lit, one mark off a 9. Received an extra 3 marks. Friend received an extra 10 marks going from a 6 to an 8!

Our school has been crap to say the least. I've emailed the English teacher and HOD but not heard back, no one from maths or eng was available on results day. I understand there's the holidays but I think there should be something in place for core subjects for the kids who's post 16 placement relies on these grades. I'm sure the kids trying to get a 8 or 9 can wait till they're all back at work and have had their HOD meeting, but unfortunately my DDs 6th form won't.

Oh gosh that’s a bit cheeky! Though I suppose it’s extra work for the staff in the holidays. We’ve been really lucky that DS’ teacher emailed us on results day and asked for permission to access his scripts, then looked at them and sent them straight off for the review on Friday morning. She said she thought Lang paper 1 was really unfair so we’ve sent that one first. But 100% we would have done it regardless with him being so close to the grade boundary

No, it made no difference to us. Our school charges £10 for the teacher to look at the script and I needed it sent off straight away. My decision to send it off wasn't going to be influenced by the teacher. I wouldn't send off a STEM subject without the teacher checking it first but from everything I've read, AQA English in particular, is too unpredictable and inconsistent for me to listen to the teachers opinion.

Yes, it would be good to know either way. Even if it is the case that he had a nightmare on the day and did poorly. At least it takes away the ‘what if’.

He was upset and frustrated as he felt what was the point in putting all those hours in when he ended up doing worse than the mock. I think we were all hoping he’d manage to pull off a 7.

Same here, despite DS being predicted a 7.
Luckily college accepted him with the 4 but he is having a remark and hopefully will get a 5

For those who have already sent a review of marking off- did your child’s scripts get checked by their English teacher before they were sent? If so, what did they think to the marking/chance of an increase in marks?

I’ve just checked and it’s WJEC (Wales Joint Education Committee)- bizarre as we are nowhere near Wales 😆