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GCSE review of marking (re-mark) - your experiences.

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LongIslandIcedSummer · 04/09/2019 21:20

Just got the results back of an OCR remark today. Up by 4 marks and therefore up a grade. Glad we asked! Waiting on another subject remark to come back.

Anyone else heard back on re-marks from this summer’s GCSE results?

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CuriousaboutSamphire · 05/09/2019 19:13

Oh! And all students are told this, over and over again, in every subject. So they do know how it works.

Pieceofpurplesky · 05/09/2019 19:14

@Bryzeebubs78 where is your son schooled, given you are talking in grades? Are you in Wales?

Yosemitegert · 05/09/2019 19:21

JoanBradshaw, thanks for taking the time to answer my questions. This has really helped clarify it for us. It’s not a critical result for Dd but she worked really hard for it and was disappointed so we think we will go for the remark just on the off chance. Thanks again

pikapikachu · 05/09/2019 19:26

Bryzeebubs - maybe he just got a C and had a low D so the mean is a D.

Say for C you need 30 marks and for D you need 20 marks. If your Ds got 31,32 and 21 then the mean is (31+32+21)/3 which is 28 marks so a D overall.

Darbs76 · 05/09/2019 19:26

We got WJEC back in 24hrs last week. We are still waiting for paper 2 but think the exams officer forgot to send it Monday. Hoping my email yesterday will have jogged memory. She was super fast replying last week but hasn’t been this week. Guess she still busy.
I’m thinking it’s a waste of money, potentially £180 for me. Ds’s dad said he could review 1 paper out of 3 and that was it. RE teacher selected which one. I told him I’d pay for another though without telling dad. So first paper came back the same mark. Of course if paper 2 is the same I’m going to have to go for paper 3. Should have listened to dad. He said it doesn’t matter as doesn’t matter - he was 1 Mark off a 9. But it matters to him. A great deal. Jeez I hope he gets it. This is so stressful already and we are only starting year 11

Shadowboy · 05/09/2019 19:39

I’m a senior examiner- have been for 14 years- I’m human, there are occasional errors. I also complete EARS and very few change. I have no idea what the candidate needs to move their overall grade- the mark I award is completely based on the mark scheme I used when we originally marked the scripts.

Just to put into perspective for one paper contract I marked over 4000 questions. I marked 4 contracts this year- I have probably marked 12000 questions...... there might be the odd one that I might not have judged the same as another examiner.

coconuttelegraph · 05/09/2019 19:53

I'm disgusted at how the papers are marked

Apart from the misuse of the word disgusted your comment doesn't make sense.

I would suggest you find out how the grading system works for the exams your DS has taken. Do you mean that you think he should have scored higher than the Cs/Ds or do you think that something has gone wrong in the aggregation of the marks?

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LongIslandIcedSummer · 05/09/2019 20:18

@LongIslandIcedSummer - Which subject did you have the remark for OCR for? DS is 4 marks off an 8 in History but I thought 4 marks was too far off really to try. Maybe I was wrong

It was OCR Computing. DS was 2 marks off but went up 4 marks. We did the review of marking as he usually got higher for that subject and was well away from the next grade down so seemed a fairly low risk safe bet.

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Someonefindmeausername · 05/09/2019 22:20

How do I get my child's GCSE English language paper remarked please. Missed out on 6th form because of it. Got everything else. Got a 3 needed a 4.
Thank you for any advice.

LIZS · 05/09/2019 22:37

You have to request it via the school he sat the exam at, or rather the candidate has to. There are fees to each paper requested, refundable if the grade changes. Bear in mind marks can also go down.

Sadnessandlight · 06/09/2019 00:20

Have those posting requested remarks themselves or did the school?
Apparently dds school told her at results day that they were sending three of hers off but we haven't heard anything back. They took dds email so who knows.

BruceFoxton · 06/09/2019 07:28

@Sadnessandlight as far as I know if you (candidate/parent) didn’t order it and sign it off they can’t get a re mark. School can order them to look at papers but doesn’t mean they’re being reviewed.

kalulu72 · 06/09/2019 08:26

sent my dota remark on 23rd still waiting

Fighterpilot · 06/09/2019 16:07

My daughter got mock and predicted grade 6 in Eng Lang GCSE. All her other results came in as 6/7, above or meeting predicted (Eng Lit 6) & then....AQA Eng Lang 3.
School said not a 4 so you're not staying & now on review she got a 4.
A faith school where her bro got A's at A level -thx

Fighterpilot · 06/09/2019 16:16

Do you get your fee back for a remark if the score changes or just if a grade change?
In my view the former.

areyoureadytobestrong · 06/09/2019 16:33

We've just got the English Ltd paper back and have gone up a crazy 14 marks!

He had been 2 marks off level 8. Now he's two marks off level 9.....

We think we know why it happened: he wrote an ambituous answer to the question that is usually considered less ambitous (the character question). So the first examiner must have quickly thought "that's a good answer but it's on the "level 7" question.....

SabineSchmetterling · 06/09/2019 21:10

Even if papers are equally weighted it’s possible to get CCD and get a D, and possible to get DDC and get a C.
If the Cs were both the lowest mark possible for a C the D only needs to be one mark off a C to end up with a D overall. Likewise if a, student with DDC was only one mark away from a C on each D grade paper then they only need to get two marks over the grade boundary for a C on the third paper to end up with a C overall.

Darbs76 · 06/09/2019 21:18

@Sadnessandlight - we requested our review but the school would have contacted us anyway as 1 mark off next grade so they always ask parents if they want to review. School can’t just send off themselves, student must sign and pay - signature important as Mark can go up or down.

Darbs76 · 06/09/2019 21:25

@Someonefindmeausername - you need to establish how many marks off the next grade your child is as grades can go up or down

Sadnessandlight · 07/09/2019 10:30

Thanks all, well that's weird. Dd collected her results without me, they told her they were sending her Science and English off due to how close she was and that was that really.

Dd has just said she signed something.

Sadnessandlight · 07/09/2019 10:32

I'm not paying. The grade they are remarking makes no difference to us as it stands even if she goes up a level.

clary · 07/09/2019 10:33

Sadness if she is only a mark off school may pay, ours does. In which case may as well.

Ohflippineck · 07/09/2019 10:35

Our son was 1 mark away from 7 in maths. He’s not taking the subject at A level but DH was tempted to apply for regrading anyway until a friend who’s a department head told us that all papers within 3 marks of next grade are looked at again anyway before being notified.
Not sure if this is so with all boards?

Darbs76 · 09/09/2019 20:18

So paper 3 RE is back and no change. That’s 2 papers now and £110 that’s been spent. We have gone for the final paper as in for a penny in for a pound kind of thinking. But DS is aware it’s unlikely to change. He was 1 mark off a 9.
His dad said 1 paper only. He still thinks we are waiting on that - whereas really we are waiting on review no 3. Dad paid for the first, so I’m paying £110 out by looks of it for nothing. I couldn’t not when he was so close. He knows I won’t be doing this next year though. He sat this one a year early

Hahaha26 · 09/09/2019 21:32

Dd is off in a few;
Drama, 3 off 9
Lit, 2 off 9
RE, 1 off 9
Language, 1 off 7

It makes no difference to next step, will gcse results make much difference to uni application?

Would be devastated if language went down, well any really.

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