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Has anyone ever had a successful GCSE re-mark?

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Sparklegeek · 22/08/2013 11:30

DS1 (Year 10) got his GCSE Science result this morning. His one A grade combined with 3 A grades on the component subjects to give him an overall A Sad He is absolutely devastated as he needed 360 UMS for an A & got 359. (NB - he goes to a very high-achieving grammar so despite us insisting he has done fantastically he is gutted).

So the question is - is it worth going for a re-mark in the hope a different examiner would award that extra point he needs to hit the A* boundary? Obviously I realise he could lose points as well, but I'm assuming as he's at the very very top of the A grade boundary it wouldn't actually reduce his overall grade in that event.

But is it even worth doing? Should he just accept what he's got & leave it? And does anyone know if schools pay the fees or do the parents? (Not an issue - was just wondering).

I feel so bad that he feels like this when he should by rights be celebrating his A.

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YoureAllABunchOfBastards · 25/08/2013 19:19

English is very subjective - put a bunch of English teachers together and they will always differ by a couple of marks. You can't predict what candidates will write, and there is no set answer. Marks are big for each question - sometimes out of 24 or more. So it isn't surprising that remarks often show a difference.

However, there are a number of checks on markers throughout the marking period, whether paper or electronic scripts are used.

I am more than slightly taken aback by some of the comments from markers on this thread - professionalism, anyone?

primroseyellow · 25/08/2013 23:07

I would definitely go for the remark. Similar situation with DC and maths (AQA) a few years ago - went up from B to A. No charge because of change of grade but I would have had to pay for the 2 papers to be remarked if the grade had not changed. Interestingly the marks for both papers changed on remarking, as far as I remember one went up by 2 marks and one went down by one mark but that overall one mark increase changed the grade.

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Sparklegeek · 11/09/2013 20:02

Just to update in case it's any use to someone considering a re-mark at any point...we had DS's Chemistry paper re-marked (see OP!) and it didn't go up Sad He actually lost one mark but that didn't make any difference to his A grade so he stays at that.

Oh well, never mind, we gave it a go. I thought I'd put it on here for balance though as reading this thread it seemed like all re-marks came back higher!! Oh, and blimmin quick work by AQA, we handed in the request form last Fri & got the re-mark results today!

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StrangeGlue · 11/09/2013 20:06

My cousin had his IB remarked and it made the difference between getting into first choice uni and not. Worth £20 I think

happylady1 · 06/10/2013 16:42

My son had his AQA English Language paper remarked from Summer 2013 and went up by 11 marks.

tommy1998 · 23/08/2015 12:22

My daughter is off 2UMS or 1 mark off an A in Russian. She has always obtained A in this subject upto this final piece and scored full marks on two of the four papers. The exam board is OCR. She is wanting to do Russian for AS and so I have already spoken to school who have suggested she ask for a remark of the oral, speaking exam. I do not want to raise her hopes.

Has anyone dealt with OCR before?

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