Exam marking and results

[nightime]

I am starting this thread following on from one I started a few days ago.

I have a dd in year 13 who has just failed her 2 retakes, she wasnt the only one, eevryone failed them apart from one boy who studied at home and took the exam as an independent,

She told me today that she was told by several teachers that no matter how well you did that only a certain amount of passes were allowed,

Is there anyone on here that can either confirm or totally convince me that this is not true.

What part of this makes you think my DD is telling the truth winnybella and what does HTH mean?

Happy to help.

She may be telling the truth as this subject is often very badly taught.

Get her sitting psychology A Level instead.

Also get her into a decent bloody school where the teachers take their jobs seriously.

Sorry BoffinMum but I think its a bit late to get her to sit phychology, does she need that to go into childcre?

I think March in year 12 is a little late to be starting a new A level. What are her plans for next year? What does she need to do what she wants to do?

Year 13 even

Because that would potentially lead to a good management job in Early Years, or to a better paid career in the new field (or the UK) social pedagogy or the like, whilst also keeping more doors open to her all the way along in an uncertain world of employment.

she is in year 13, retaking from year 12

for the UK

she has her normal year 13 exams coming up but chose to pat to retake last years to get a better grade

What are her plans for next year?

What is she retaking from Y12? Did she get an AS pass in the subject and is just redoing a module or is she retaking the whole AS?

Sorry, I won't hijack the thread and rant about diplomas any more!

I teach lit at a-level so if you want to pm me details of which board it was I may be able to help work out what went wrong.

Thankyou jenga that would be great, im not sure how to do that though, would normally get my loivelly dd to hel me but she is in in bed as she has work tomorrow,

my spelling is crap lol im tired lo;

Ha, me neither actually! I'm on silly phone right now so can't write much, but will put a longer post up tomorrow with more info about the course. Night!

Did you manage to get to the bottom of this nightime?

Definitely not true-I mark GCSE and there is a numerical mark for each grade and everyone who gets the relevant mark gets the relevant grade-colleagues who mark A level say its the same there-that is for English.

there is SOME truth to it, all the grades are transferred into UMS scores. If it is an easier exam then the the totals you need to get a pass are higher
if it is a toughie then then grade boundaries are reduced.