It's going to cost £100 a grade to appeal A Level Results

[AKissAndASmile]

AIBU to think this is unfair given the fiasco, and will affect disadvantaged kids the most AGAIN?

Government are paying this year but costs are not to pick on poorer students it is just the cost of a senior examiner going through paper/data trail this year. The cost is the same for all students. Cost is reimbursed if student goes up a grade but not if awarded more marks but grade stays the same.

@WinchesForFinches

How do people in deprived areas who have been given shit grades afford to appeal?

This makes me so angry.

This. It's just so grim what has happened this year.

The school pays and the government is doing the whole school for £120.

@Pixxie7

The school pays and the government is doing the whole school for £120.

In some cases, but in other cases individuals appeal?

How will an appeal work in this case, though? There's no exam papers to revisit, so surely all they'll be checking is that they applied the (appalling) model correctly?

A lot of people won’t need to appeal. I have friends whose kids dropped 2-3 grades without any justification have their university places reinstated on appeal directly to the universities. They just presented documentary evidence of their grades thus far including GCSEs. One of the universities was Cambridge.
They may still want to appeal to get the grade they deserve.
Easier for Oxford and Cambridge to do thus as they will have already assessed students.

My eldest is only 12 so I don't have a horse in this race, thank God. I'm just so disgusted by this whole fiasco, the devastation this has caused to these kids is appalling. And that's before GCSEs are announced. There must have been better ways of doing this.

My niece has suffered detriment due to this and they are trying to appeal but have been told that they can only apply for mock grades if those mocks are validated. How many of these appeals will be declined on the basis that the mock exams don't withstand the scrutiny?

As yet there is no defined appeals process, nor is there a definition of a valid mock.

Few unis have agreed to take students on the basis of a mock result. My DS had to subjects down graded from the CAG grades, and the third subject was lower than his mock. School emailed his first choice uni confirming mock grades, but they still wouldn't take him until appeal was successful so he lost his place.

Even if kids have been accepted, they should still appeal - their final grades should justify their hard work, and they may be needed again in the future.