Anyone still waiting for GCSE marking reviews?

Day 17 waiting for English Language AQA. I'm wondering whether the examiners have more time over the weekend to do the remarks and we'll get the results back today or tomorrow? The wait is painful as it's dragging on and it would be nice to close this one way or another!

We've been speaking to the science teacher about AQA trilogy science - 3 marks from the grade boundary. We're still debating what to do. There's no obvious errors but a few potential judgement marks - no more than 1 or 2 per paper which could go either way. It's nearly £300 to get all 6 papers remarked.

The science teacher said they've submitted 12 for review so far (I think they are more likely the single science rather than combined), but all have come back unchanged.

Our edexcel was back in 3 days!

How long have edexcel been taking? We sent it off on 9th September. All the others we’ve done have been AQA and turned around within a week.

The school funded reviews of any grade within 4 marks of the boundaries

they emailed and asked if we gave permission

That is true. I have heard a lot anecdotally too though about some very weird examples markings this year at both GCSE and A-level.

Not necessarily @KwellsBells you are looked at a very skewed sample on this thread. The vast majority of people who submit for a review will not then bother replying to a thread if there is no change to their mark.

crikey!! Definitely something odd going on with AQA

We’ve had three AQA grades go up! Waiting on one from edexcel.

Yes school sent an email saying mark had gone up with the reviewed papers attached

@SlipperyLizard yes that's what happened for us. The exam officer forwarded on a paper from AQA saying no change.

We’re still waiting for AQA (although it hasn’t been that long). Can I ask how the results come through? Do they go to school first, then school sends them on?

It’s AQA that we’re waiting for. The exams officer actually went to find DD today to reassure her that her request for a review was submitted as she’d guessed (accurately as it turned out) that DD would have spoken to others at the school who submitted their Eng Lang request later than she did and have already heard back. She has no insight as to why DD’s is taking so long. DD and I have decided that it must be because it’s getting a massive re-grade! We are hoping that, if that is the case, it is upward. Whilst she really wants a 6 (or higher!) rather than a 5, it would be a catastrophe if it dropped to a 4 (or lower!)

Thanks @cherrywhitethat's useful to know

We submitted AQA English Language on Friday 4th but nothing back yet. I guess they had a bit of an influx once schools went back and teachers were able to check papers etc

Which board is that @FoxandDuck?

We’ve only just submitted my DC’s English Language on Tuesday this week, so interested to know when approximately we might hear back.

It’s AQA which has a max of 20 calendar days I think, but just interested if they’re coming back sooner.

It makes no difference really as DC has embarked on next stage, but her teacher still felt it was worth a review as one question seemed weirdly low (and much lower than the others).

We submitted without looking at them first btw - just submitted both (only one went up but all that was needed).

We had English lit back today (took a week) and she’s gone from a 5 to a 6 (they found 9 marks on paper 1!!) so near the grade 7 boundary. She is delighted but really the marking of English from AQQ does not seem great this year does it. Or perhaps this thread is giving a skewed view 😀

Yes - email the exam officer and they should be able to give you copies of the script - they have access and can download them immediately. So did you submit for review before seeing the scripts? How did you decide which papers to submit (or did you just submit all of them?)

@FoxandDuck I thought Paper 1 English Lan was marked at the wrong level but it came back unchanged. To be fair, when I asked AI, it did identify paper 2 as being more likely to have extra marks so am hopeful this one will succeed.

Have also heard that her school has asked for Art to be reviewed as the whole cohort lost two grades on teacher assessed marks and no-one got higher than a 7, with the majority getting 5s and 6s. This is a grammar school so they're aiming for the top grades. DD is not bothered about this one but will be pleased if it goes up.

Amazing result @TickedOffAndALittleFedUp well done to your DD.

I did not know we could request our own copies of papers, do I just email the exam officer?

we have submitted:

English lang (1 mark off)
Citizenship (1 mark off)
Maths (4 marks off but the school suggested this for a remark)

Still waiting for Eng Lang here. Only need one mark. We’ve only submitted one paper so far as it seemed pretty clear from that paper alone that she should have been marked at a different level so we’re now doing the dance of whether to submit the other paper. Really hoping to hear back today!
Quite a lot resting on it as it opens up a couple of DD’s preferred Uni options if she goes up a grade.

Dd had Eng Lit remarked and gained 12 points so went up a grade so we've submitted Lang too as she was only a couple off a 9 and RE too. All AQA papers so hoping for positive results.

Update on our remaining 3 requests:
Economics - head of department has said no more marks to be found.
Biz Studies - head of department thinks there are missing marks on both papers and has submitted them for review
History - I found out Paper 1 was submitted and we just heard back today that it's gained 2 marks (we need 4 for the next grade up). Inspired by others on this thread I requested the scans of the papers myself and got Gemini to assess the papers - it thinks Paper 2 has a clearer-cut case for missing marks, so I've requested that the second paper is also submitted to AQA and have offered to pay for this ourselves.

Having read through the papers alongside the mark scheme and a bit of back and forth with Gemini I'm actually quite gutted about the way his history paper has been marked, even with the 2 additional marks found. Has anyone ever appealed?

I got the marks wrong in my earlier post - she got 12+8 in writing for a total of 20.

I pushed school and they got an examiner to look at it and she feels it's been incorrectly assigned to "level 2" and should be mid level 3 and is worth the remark. So we will give it a go. It's a long shot as well have to find 7 marks, but I will update!