Dfe Performance tables : now I know why they do not come out till January

[TalkinPeace]

I'd always wondered why the humungous delay after the GCSE and A level results (which are the bits most people are interested in)
Now I know.
DD took her exams in the summer. We submitted two papers for re-mark in late August. The second one only came back this week.
I have no idea what took them so long -but it does show that the summer headlines are more guesswork than anything else.

I feel sorry for kids whose re-marks have taken two months on subjects critical to their continuing education.

btw the re mark was a two grade change ....
scary for the kids whose schools/parents do not challenge

I agree. I am a teacher, and we only challenge when the student is near the grade boundary. The marks can go down, as well as up, and a school could never take the risk of marks going down, and the student slipping into the lower grade.
A two grade change is outrageous; it inspires no confidence in exam boards or the marking process. Good news for DD, unless the initial grade has affected her future prospects.

There was an article in the telegraph saying the reason the marking was so poor was that markers were underpaid. I think it's more likely a lot of them are teachers who are tired and overworked in their day jobs.

lazy
it was in an utterly spare subject and the school paid

but she went C > A in the one we queried
and because of that b > A in the one we did not
OCR had their mark wrong by more than 15%

shocking, just shocking

I have known this to happen to a student I taught. He had to go through clearing as initially he had not made the grades. Turns out he could of got in.

Exam boards should be held accountable, they never are.

For the record, the two exam boards in question were

AQA, English Language
original mark 144 (B), amended mark 162 (A)
original mark 52 (A), amended mark 57 (*)

OCR, History
original mark 40 (C), amended mark 48 (A)
original mark 156 (B), amended mark 164 (A)

They should both be ashamed and investigated.

Our school's % A*-C went up by 3% after remarking!

Blimey falimey Hak that is outrageous.

Because of the re-mark DCs school never announced the original figure but the looks on the faces of the head of English and the SLT on results day told us all we needed to know.