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[Dancedad13]

Hi, has anyone had any experience with AQA and NEA work being marked down. My daughter had 2 subjects mismarked this summer. We paid for a review of marking in both subjects. One came back identifying a mismark of 8 marks and the other subject was mismarked by 18 marks. The NEA has also been downgraded by 6 marks. AQA has said that they use a line of regression which I can only see penalises the highest achievers and benefits the lower achievers. I have asked they mark her coursework independently but they have refused. I am not happy and wondered if anyone else has had a similar experience.

So were both papers marked down after the review? Sorry it’s not clear. Or did they both go up but her NEA went down? Was this for A level?

I'm an Exams Officer. You can't apply for a review of marking for a NEA. They are marked by the teachers & then a sample selected to be sent for moderation. If the moderator does not agree with the marks awarded by the teacher, then all of the cohort's marks will be adjusted using a line of regression. This does not necessarily benefit the lower marked scores. It sounds like the moderator believed your child's teacher had been too generous in their marking of the higher scoring children.
Exam boards will not review the moderation of one child, it has to be the whole cohort. The school has to apply for a review of moderation, a parent is not able to request one. This information is on the AQA website.
The deadline for applying for any reviews was the 25th September.

Sorry, both were increased after a review of marking. The NEA was marked down before results day and the review for the whole school was kept the same.

Yes my thought was that if the mark for the NEA sample is changed then the whole cohort is called in – but I wasn't sure so thanks for clarifying @ByHangrySloth

What subject was it @Dancedad13 ?
ETA: x post sorry. So what is it you are not happy about? The NEA? not sure I fully understand actually but was the whole cohort marked down after the moderartion?

I have no advice to add but just wanted to say that as a parent I would support you all the way and I suspect that most parents feel the same. Thank you for sticking up for our children's wellbeing.

Thankyou, teacher has taught the same subject for 20 plus years and its the first time he had marks reduced. School did a whole cohort review but nothing changed. She is 2 marks off a 9 and they took 6 off her for the NEA. I have lost all faith in AQA, every single person in other subjects who applied for reviews all had increases of 5 or more marks.

well if she got an 8 well done to her. Was her original grade a 7? Which subject has an NEA at GCSE?

GCSE Drama has the NEA. She just feels absolutely robbed. We also know that her work didnt ever get looked at as part of the marking only other children in the cohort. Approx 15 out of 60 had the work moderated.

That's how coursework moderation works - when they looked at the sample, the marks were too high and so they were all moved back into line with the standard.

I understand that, but I feel that you should be allowed to get a single child marked if you disagree. Especially knowing on how AQA marked the exam papers and the lack of care when marking them.