GCSE Re-marking timescales

[maccie]

Well just as the title says really.

My Ds missed gaining a C grade in his maths GCSE by 3 points apparently. His school has written to ask his permission to enter it for a re- mark and I was wondering how long it would generally take to do this. He has immediately given written consent to the school and has now asked me when he will find out the new result.

So lovely mumsnetters has anyone here got any idea ?

First one back .....
18 UMS increase
A grade in the bag

now waiting on the second

Well done talking peace. You must be pleased

Still waiting here with fingers crossed

still gobsmacked that they can have got her mark wrong by 7.5%

and its sad that kids with parents less able to pay and willing to pay than I am would be stuck with the B grade

That's great TalkingPeace but a good point about ability to pay.

sauvignon
In the end the school paid for both and neither of my cheques was cashed
BUT
the fact that I was willing and able to show that level of interest clearly aided their decision.

It links into lots of the threads about achievement and home life : I am organised, I knew what DD's predictions were
I also knew that it was worth the punt to make the total record look spot on

less well informed parents with equally bright kids might not have been able to make that difference.

which is a loss to the future GDP of the country

Well, I'm pretty cross, because I got a phone message late Friday afternoon from dd's previous school, saying if she wanted a re-mark for her English Lang (hopefully to push from a B to an A) she had to get to the Exams Office by 4pm. This message was left at 2pm and was the first I'd heard of her being eligible. I was at work, dd was at her new school, and we didn't get the message in time anyway, so we're stuffed, as the deadline has now passed.

Oh clam
That is AWFUL
DDs school put the link to all of the forms on their website and emailed all of the leavers' parents so we had the option

What made them phone you and why so late (we were notified of one on results morning and the other on the first day of term)

Apparently they budgetted to return a certain number, and around 1/4 of those were moved up a grade, so they moved onto Wave 2. Dd was one of those, but apparently they only knew they could send more on Thursday afternoon. I wasn't phoned until Friday (and didn't get the message even then).

I suppose I could have asked them specifically if she was eligible earlier on (and I did for ds two years ago, but he was still in the school and so it was much more on my radar). So I have to take some responsibility I suppose. But I'm still cross.

on your behalf
I sent in DDs cheques early with instructions to cash them if needed and return them torn up if not.
I got them both back

18UMS it's ridiculous. Both of DSs remarks went up. It does make you wonder how many were wrong in the first place.

Maybe we should have had the other B remarked, even though it was 14 marks off!

I'm glad I've found this thread as I started a similar one. It makes a mockery of the whole system.

as I've said elsewhere: fellow posters marked those exams : when you inderstand the utter stupidity and financial constraint they had to work with, the UMS randomness was predictable

its a shit that our kids were caught in the middle