Will uni wait for for appeal before rejecting?

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My son is going to be appealing his NEA mark and requesting a remark (WJEC). Given its worth 30% of overall grade and could result in an overall grade change, if he misses the mark but tells his uni that he's appealing will they hold fire on rejecting him?

What are people's experiences of unis waiting to see the result of an appeal?

From what I know in England anyway there is a window to appeal NEA with a school 'before' it is submitted - these are the JCQ regs - so I'm puzzled as to why he would be doing this now. The exam board only moderate the NEA as it's the school that mark it - though the board can of course change it if there is a pattern of error in the school's NEA marking. If you are in England, the final outcomes will not be with him yet so I'm just checking where you are based. If it's England and A levels, then he has missed that window for appealing the NEA mark unless you are appealing against an exam board adjustment which has been applied. Notification should have come home from the school prior to the time they submitted their agreed NEA marks within which you can request it to have a second opinion on the school's mark.

I should have clarified, we are in Wales and my son's tutor seems to think that he will have a window to appeal after results day on Thursday. I will double check

Sorry but I would suggest the tutor has made an error here I'm afraid. Here is the standard documentation for England and Wales though I don't obviously know the details of what your DC did subject-wise. Assuming you are referring to a standard A level, you can only appeal if the exam board altered the centre marks becisee there was a pattern of error across the cohort in what they found ... you can only appeal a centre NEA mark before they submit it to the board ie in May.

I hope the below helps.

See pages 11-12 and section 10 post results service
https://www.jcq.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/InstructionsNEAA21-22FINAL.pdf

I can't comment on the NEA deadline, but unis generally will hold for a week or so while an applicant submits a priority appeal. However they are not obliged to do so.

Thanks for the link, it was helpful but also kind of heartbreaking 😟

I'm sorry. 😔 I've been there with DS1s exam outcomes during covid so I know that feeling. Things did turn out well in the end but it was turmoil for us for a year. Hopefully all will be ok for you. He can appeal exam paper marks on Thursday should there be a good reason to do so, though marks can go down as well as up if a remark is requested, but not the NEA. I hope all goes ok on Thursday and the NEA quibble can be forgotten anyway.

Depends on the uni. I've known one to keep a place in reserve until end August pending remark results but I don't think they are obliged to. Always worth going back if result meets the offer though.

I'm so annoyed with him for not saying anything when he got the mark 😟 I think he's been on the receiving end of unconscious bias (actually, Im not sure anymore of how 'unconscious' it even is) . His tutor (who does exam marking) has indicated that she feels it was not marked fairly, too little too late. I wish one of them had said something to me. My son didn't even know he could appeal his mark with school - idiot!

The school should have communicated with students and parents about this before May and almost definitely would have done so.

It might help to know that I think NEA should only be 20% so it may well be that any adjustment you wanted would have been minor in comparison to the 80% exam. (The percentages of coursework were reduced to that from 30% across the A levels when they were last revised.)

Maybe try to breathe between now and Thursday and see what the day brings in terms of results. It's a hard time for these young people having not sat the GCSEs so maybe best to deal with what comes on the day rather than anticipate perhaps.

Fingers crossed for you.