Advice for Art A-Level Re-mark

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Looking for a bit of advice as to how to approach requesting a remark of DD’s Art mark. She’s a few points off the next band/boundary (or at least based off what the school tells us they were last year unless they change). DD is gutted and feels that she put all that she could into the subject and had covered all the assessment areas in all the books submitted. We have to put the request in by the end of the week to the school, it’s the initial mark that’s been decided by the school assessors which is made up of three teachers - I’ve no idea where to start with this! DD would like me to ask for a remark - but I’ve not the first clue how to approach this. I appreciate its not the final grade by the exam board, as the boundaries haven’t been issued and it’s not all been looked at by an external moderator, however, I’ve been told that this is the only opportunity for her work to be looked at agin individually. Any advice is welcome 🙏

Just ask for a remark.

We all got sent the provisional grades for music the other week - and you got a link to the appeals form whether you got 100% or 50%, and details of deadline etc.

Thanks, I’m overthinking it then? 😌We didn’t get a form. Just an email address for parents to use and a deadline. I didn’t know if we could request to see the breakdown of the marks awarded or anything like that? Just worried that it’s unlikely that we get to enter into a dialogue with the teachers and I don’t want to let my DD down by fluffing up the request.

I think so. You won't offend them.

Just treat it like you would a GCSE remark.

It hasn’t been moderated yet though? In which case it could yet move either way.

That's not strictly correct, you can only appeal the mark if you feel the mark scheme has not been correctly applied and have to give a valid reason.
Being close to a grade boundary (or where you are guessing the boundary will be) is not grounds to have the work remarked.

Oh good - that’s probably what I’m worried about! Questioning their professional judgment. I’ve never asked for a regrade of any of my children’s exams.

Yes, but apparently this would just move the class and not the individual. So I’ve been told. 🤷🏻‍♀️

How do I know if they’ve applied it correctly or not when all they give us is a random number? Can I ask to see the breakdown of the score? It doesn’t really make sense to me that they give a mark and tell us last years grades - those are last years- how much do the boundaries move each year? 🙂

At DS's school I believe they lay all the art work of each student that wants it remarked in a big room and they go round and ask the kids (often with their parents) why they think the mark is incorrect. I'm not sure about A-level but there are always quite a few wanting their GCSE art work remarked.
I think the best thing would be for your dd to be able to explain why she thinks she should be marked up based on the assessment areas.

I think I need to ask the teachers for the scores they gave for each assessment criteria. We only were given one overall score. This would be the only way to see where my DD would feel there is something amiss. The students at ALevel had to do a 15 hour practical and then set out all their work and other coursework books to be marked. No one was present for this - just the three teachers assessing the work. At least that’s as far as I understand- no discussions or explanations. 🙂