Duff result with Edexcel? Edexcel offers FREE access to marked papers

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Public service announcement. If your DC got an unexpected result for an Edexcel exam, or if they are close to a grade boundary and you are considering a marking review, ask the school and they can see the marked script for free. This will save you having to worry whether it's worth the cost of a review because you'll have an idea of the outcome beforehand.
Schools need your permission to look at the paper so won't be doing this routinely, you'll need to ask.
qualifications.pearson.com/content/dam/pdf/Support/results-certification/Access-to-Scripts-FAQs.pdf

The deadline for asking for a review of marking is 21st September.

Thanks for this, very helpful.

That's very interesting. Thank you.

If the school is able to look at the paper and believes that the result is incorrect, is a marking review the same as a remark?

If the school looks at the paper and thinks the markscheme has been applied incorrectly (e.g. The examiner missed a question or didn't give a mark for a correct answer or correct working) then a marking review will amend the mark to the correct one.

If, however, the teacher looks at an essay and thinks 'I'd have given that essay an extra mark, but I can see why the examiner didn't', then the original result will stand.

Someone doesn't sit down and literally remark the paper from scratch anymore, they check that the original marking was reasonable.

Schools need your permission to look at the paper so won't be doing this routinely, you'll need to ask.

Can I just correct this ^
School need the students permission, not your permission.

Same with reviews of marking, only the student can give their permission.
Parents can not give permission for anything as it's not their grade/paper/work being requested or reviewed.

Interesting, do we know which subjects it might apply to. Wondering about English Language and History specifically.

Anything that's marked online, so any written papers but not coursework.

Just wanted to say that I asked DS's school to see copies of 3 papers yesterday and the the school emailed them to me in the afternoon. Very weird seeing copies of the actual scripts. Without the answer sheets, though, it was difficult to do more than check that all the marks added up.

Lizs it is all subjects

I used it last week after A Level results were published for a students who was 2 marks off; normally I would have pushed for a remark, but on seeing the paper I'm surprised he got as high as he did as it was littered with silly mistakes and one extended writing answer was marked very generously imo