GCSE review advice please

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HebeJeeby · 25/08/2023 18:19

Hi, DD is one mark off a grade 7 in her maths GCSE. We are going to have it reviewed and wonder if we should do it one exam at a time rather than getting all 3 papers looked at. The reason being we don’t want to risk her losing marks on one paper and gaining on another for example, which might then negate any possible increase in marks. Does anyone have any advice please?

I was thinking of asking for all the papers back to review and then being tactical about asking which paper to be marked, if it is believed that there are more marks up for grabs.

i’d be grateful for any advice. I do appreciate it is harder to find spare marks in maths than the essay based exams but we feel it is worth a go. I’d be very happy to hear any personal experiences of getting maths reviewed (good or bad - preferably good 😄) and marks being increased. Many thanks.

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Moglet4 · 29/09/2023 18:37

gemini70 · 31/08/2023 19:16

Hi, my daughter is one mark off a grade 4 in her English Language paper. We asked for a copy of it via the school. Most of it is marked, we can see ticks but the two twelve mark questions have not been ticked, they just say evaluated. Does anyone know what that means?

Not sure which board this is (AQA only has one 12 mark question) so can’t say for certain but it is likely that the answer fits into a Band so it would only be a mark that was awarded, not ticks per se.

sep135 · 04/10/2023 10:05

We've had CIE history, one mark off a 9, no change. And AQA English lit, paper 2 no change, paper 1 up three marks (and therefore a grade)

Haven't had AQA English language papers back yet

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