AIBU to expect my DS school to award him full marks after school "lost" his exam paper?

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I am in a bit of a quandry.... DS has just finished his end of year exams and was told by his teacher that his paper (and one other child) has been "lost".

DS thinks he has to resit it, but school has not contacted me to inform me of the issue, so I am letting it run its natural course for now (I don't want to go barging in as they may have an internal process for such mishaps).
It is one of DS stronger subjects, so ideally he would score circa 70% (we would hope) and he did put a lot of effort into the revision.

AIBU to expect that he should be awarded a high percentage, if not full marks regardless or should I agree (if the school tells me so) that he should resit?

My English teacher covered for me when I hadn't handed in any coursework and clearly wrote it herself when she found out it had to be sent off for second marking or whatever they do. I wouldn't worry too much about a year eight exam though, surely a chat with his teacher will tell you if your DS is at the level he would expect?

An internal test I wouldn't get too worked up over.

Given that you've heard nothing from school, I'd suspect that it is a case of your son thinking 'hope they don't make me retake the fucking thing' rather than anything the school have said.

Cavemum I am furious on your behalf. That is awful.

Things do get 'lost' but as previous teacher said it has probably got caught up in a pile of another teachers exams to mark. All our end of year tests are sat in the hall in alphabetical order of the whole year - sorting 240 papers into classes an odd misplacement will happen!

At year 8 - we would hunt high and low, ask all to check and recheck and then use previous assessments to make a judgement. Sometimes we need to do this when a student is off for a long period over the exam time so its not a huge issue.

When I was at school a whole years maths courseworks were lost due to them being stored in the Head of Maths classroom and a disaffected student setting fire to the portacabin one weekend! This was before the times of everything being stored electronically as well (marks etc) so not sure what was done!

Thanks Exit, it was almos 20 years ago and I still get angry when I think about it now! I had been predicted a B but was awarded an E from the exam paper. It was the only result I had lower than a C.

My school was atrocious though, it was in the bottom 10 in the country and had a GCSE pass rate of 9%.

Your teacher did your coursework for you because you couldn't be arsed to do it yourself, Jeff?? Why in the name of God would any teacher do that?

Yabu if it doesn't count towards anything

My entire classes AS general studies papers got lost en route to the marker. We all had to resit but weren't charged (don't know if the college paid or if it was treated as a replacement or what)

'hope they don't make me retake the fucking thing' - LOOOL

Thanks to all. I'm not worked up at all tbh. But I thought I'd throw it out to the wisdom of Mumsnetters and I'm glad I did.

I will stick with my original intention which is - do nothing until they tell me he's resitting which I doubt they will. His grades throughout the year have been v.good and so I will take a chill pill and go and watch the new TMNT!!!!

My sister's GCSE coursework got lost after being marked and then hers got selected as one of the ones to be double checked. Her teacher just sent off another kids work that had got the same grade and told her not to tell anyone

Hopefully they'll just go on his predicted grade, as its internal and year 8 it's not the end of the world anyway

A few years ago I was a guest at a house party of a teacher friend. Guess who knocked a bottle of red wine over some beautifully drawn geography coursework?

Pretty certain it was still legible/markable, but also certain it was dark red and must have reeked of booze!

molly it certainly appeared that way. Off the top of my head she probably didn't want me bringing her average grades down by not submitting my coursework