Can Ds view his marked paper

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Ds has just completed his degree with a good 2/1 as he had hoped . Rather then being happy and looking to the future he has totally convinced himself that the marks are wrong. He came out of one exam totally convinced he had failed it as he didn't even manage to completer the last question as he ran out of time and came out of the last one which was his favourite confident he had done exceptionally well. However. this is not reflected in the marks, for the one he thought he had done badly in he got a 2/1 and in the one he thought he had done very well he scored 56 the lowest module mark for his whole degree Looking on his Uni website there is generic feedback for the modules and pointers where if you failed to mentioned x you would have scored no higher than a 2/2 or to get a 2/1 you would have had to have mentioned y. A higher score on the last paper would have made no difference whatsoever to his classification so I have no idea why he isn't just happy to accept it but he has become totally obsessed that his marks are incorrect and is driving us up the wall about it. Is there any way he can view his papers. He can get very anxious and this is really spoiling what should be a very happy time in his life

At the Uni I work at, your son would need to contact the module leader and make an appointment to see them, they would be able to get the exam paper out and go through it with your son.

Other Uni's may have different rules.

He should contact his tutor for reassurance. I have checked papers for students before now, although this may not be possible everywhere. Our university does let students see scripts but there are specific sessions that they sign up for in advance. It isn’t at all unusual for students to be convinced they should have got a different mark, it is very unusual for this to be true!
It’s very sad when students don’t allow themselves to celebrate what they have achieved rather than dwelling on some deeply felt but usuall non-existent injustice. A 2.1 is a great result, well done to him!

At the uni where I work he would be invited to collect his paper, with a column of feedback at the front, and then be able to make an appointment with his module tutor to go through it in detail if he wanted to. Obviously it is easier to hold a productive meeting with a student who comes in with an open mind and is not too shaken to be able to take in what you are saying- but ime these meetings usually are productive.