is this legal? AQA scrapping DDs result and forcing a resit for the whole year

[ThatVikRinA22]

has anyone else got this predicament? im very very right now.

DD is 15 and in year 11.
In year 10, she took several GCSEs, including all the science GCSEs. She got top Cs in them all, she was working at an E a year ago, her improvement has been epic and the work she put in was superhuman, she revised, revised and revised for the exams and was ecstatic with her Cs for all of them, Biology, Chemistry and Physics.

so why the actual fuck is she having to resit one i asked?

so i rang the school to ask this, and ask what happens if she then gets a D on the resit.....

answer
AQA "misinformed" the school, something to do with percentages claimed during the year, blah blah blah < head of science felt i was clearly too thick to have it all explained properly>.....school say its completely the exam boards fault, theyve complained etc but upshot is that she has to resit her weakest subject.

im so so pissed off, it makes the hard work mean nothing, it means that if she then gets a lower grade that lower grade stands....

ive complained and got no where. Head of Science says he has complained, and many other schools are in the same predicament due to the exam board giving them "duff information"

why is no one held accountable for this "duff information" and why does my child and many others have to suffer for it?

whats the point of me telling DD to work hard, revise, if the grade she got is simply pulled from under her in this way?

And ,for what it's worth ,have today spoken to friend in South Hams whose son is in similar position ,she's been told it's the Government doing away with the resit culture .
Her son has been told he has to resit and that if a lower grade results it will superceed his earlier C .

Oh dear I'm sorry to keep posting ,I just feel so upset for people caught in this situation .
Even the exams officers .

I hate the idea that the system is so complicated that parents can't be expected to follow it and that some schools can't seemingly either .

I'm sure the last thing schools want is to be caught up in all this ,paying for resits and their reputation being at risk if it becomes open knowledge if they've made an error of this magnitude .

but it must be the individual schools error ,if it were the exam board all schools would be affected and there would be an outcry in the press .

Not that any of this helps the children affected .

well i think you are probably right - its someones cock up and id love to know whose.

though, at this stage i cant see it making much difference, i think she will have to resit what ever. im just so annoyed about it, it just seems so unfair.

It's not a complicated system. Two of the four modules have to be taken at the same time as cash-in. What is hard about that?

clearly something is - someone, somewhere found it too hard to do it properly and the result is that DD is very unhappy that she is now missing her lunchtimes every single day.

More likely someone didn't bother to read the specification - nothing to do with understanding

They probably didn't bother to go to the (free) training course either.