Yr6 SATs have been marked 'wrongly'

[OrmIrian]

We got the papers back in time but apparently there were huge numbers of inaccurately marked papers. So they've been sent back. All the children have been asked to bring the test papers that they did in the run up to provide evidence of the sort of marks they were getting.

Is this just sour grapes on the school's part - they need good results this year- or could it really be a screw up. Anyone had an experience like this?

[Tinker]

Not had ours back yet. I thought Y6 had been wasted anyway with all the practice papers and not enough real teaching but this just compounds it. Any results will have no credibilty anyway.

[summer111]

We haven't had any of ours back. It really makes me sad for both the children and the teachers; they have worked so hard preparing for the exams only for this disaster. I don't think I will really trusts the marks as being accurate, when ever they do arrive.

[tortoiseSHELL]

It has been a nightmare for the markers - papers not delivered, inaccurate pupil lists, papers missing, a complete disaster from beginning to end.

[OrmIrian]

Same here stella. In fact maths and science were a bit higher. Literacy was way off beam - not just lower but completely inconsistent.

[StellaDallas]

I thought it was interesting that our Y6 maths and science results were bang on the teachers predictions, but the English results were lower than expected.

[OrmIrian]

But I am still angry that the school has to pay for remarking. If it is proved that the marking was inaccurate will they get a refund? Anyone know?

[leoemma]

We had to return our maths papers as half of them were unmarked. Reports have had to be delayed until we get them back

[mrz]

What has happened this year is unprecedented. Papers missing huge delay in marking. I know two markers who were invited to hotels around the country (one in Birmingham and the other in Leeds) for "marking fests" to clear the backlog and asked to mark subjects they weren't qualified to mark. Others reported being "locked in" and marking through the night then being asked to mark other subjects. Hardly surprising the result of this is that some schools feel the marks are incorrect.

[ByTheSea]

We got DS2's results today and they matched the teacher assessments to the letter.

[EachPeachPearMum]

they usually come in at different times- different subject markers of course.

There is a kerfuffle every year over the marking- it is likely school is entirely justified in sending them back, things seem to be gettign worse.

[bigdonna]

my ds got his sats results yesterday,and were what we expected

[OrmIrian]

I wasn't expecting them yet TBH eachpeach. I knew they were challenging the literacy papers and was assuming the other results would wait too.

[EachPeachPearMum]

This is common- especially with English Papers.
Some schools don't even have their results back yet!

[bellavita]

I assume then that our school think that our marks are ok given that Yr6 pupils have been told.

We were pleased with DS1's results as he had to have someone scribe for him due to a broken arm and it must take a lot more effort to say what he meant rather than just write it down if that makes sense?

[OhYouBadBadKitten]

Good place to lurk is TES forum there have been loads of threads there about this subject!

[OrmIrian]

No I don't think so. But if the marks are way off what the teachers expected they can challenge it. The school is having to pay though,

[bellavita]

DS1 came home yesterday with his marks - so are all schools wrongly marked?

[2Eliza2]

I feel so sorry for the teachers and the children. What a fiasco!

[OrmIrian]

Well DS#1 casually let slip that he has his SATs results yesterday. Not literacy - those have been sent back, all those children predicted level 3s had level 5s and vice versa . But he got 4a in maths and 5b in science. He was so pleased with himself but tried to pretend he didn't cos school is so boooring

[OrmIrian]

We got the papers back but they were inaccurately marked according to the head. So they were sent back. That is the the literacy papers. Science hasn't come back and the school is looking at the maths papers now.

[RustyBear]

Some schools have got the papers back & they are adding up the marks - the levels for the marks gained are online, so they can give a level, but it's not official - and if the concerns about the papers not being marked properly turn out to be justified, the schools may have to withdraw their 'unofficial' level

[ICantFindAFreeNickName]

How do parents know the results yet ? I thought all SATS results had been delayed, or is it just some area's ?

[OrmIrian]

The worst of it is that some of the dimmer parents (we have a few of those) are blaming the school. The head was rounded on loudly and aggressively by one of the mothers in the playground this morning. Poor bugger! He's the one responsible for bringing the place back from the brink.

[CarGirl]

The school dd1 attends had their paper collected a week late and they were pressurising the head to sign off the paperwork to say they had been collecting fraudulently!!! No surprise they're not ready yet.