A2 French (AQA) result - unexpectedly low grade

[3littlefrogs]

Anyone else perplexed/disappointed or had an unexpectedly poor result?

[3littlefrogs]

I have just asked DC again about this and it appears to be an extraordinarily low mark for unit 3. Something must have gone badly wrong.

[ImperialBlether]

Serendipity, I'm so sorry that happened to your son. How on earth did they lose a paper? All exam boards that mark online outsource the scanning of the exam documents - how could one person's go missing?

I think the system should be that the students shouldn't apply until they have their grades. It's crazy that people do better than expected but have to stick with original offers and others do less well and have to run around looking for somewhere to take them. It would stop all of this sort of worry, too. Students have lost places as a result of bad marking and that is disgraceful.

My son was the last of the students paying £3,000 per year. If he had a badly marked paper he would have had to defer, which would have cost him an extra £6,000 per year, through no fault of his own. I was surprised there weren't test cases in court against the exam boards that year.

What has happened now with your son? Will he get onto the course he wanted? What will be the repercussions? No wonder you are so upset.

[Happy36]

ImperialBlether Your son could have got a priority re-mark which is usually returned within 24 hours, including weekends and nights, and therefore gone to university without having to defer. That's imagining that the re-mark resulted in his marks AND grade going up.

[ImperialBlether]

It was a very popular course with very limited space on it, so he might not have been lucky enough. As it was he was fine but I did wonder what students would do in that instance.

[Happy36]

If he got his firm or insurance offer grades after the priority re-mark, that university is contractually obliged to accept him, ImperialBlether.

[ImperialBlether]

Oh okay, thanks, I didn't know that. Hope that is useful to people here.

[Happy36]

No probs and sorry if I sounded eggy, I really didn't mean to, just hoped that anyone else reading this thread in a panic about re-marks would be slightly reassured.

[ImperialBlether]

In an ideal world there wouldn't be any re-marks but when they are cutting costs for training etc and expecting people to mark long papers on screen (thus losing a lot of experienced markers) it's inevitable, I'm afraid.