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GCSE exam board lost exam paper 2023

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Cbed · 25/08/2023 21:16

My daughter just got her GCSE exam results back and for biology, she got an 8 in the second paper, but they have lost her first paper, which was mainly typed. So now I’ve been told the exam board are trying to locate the paper. I have no confidence now that she will get her correct grade and that they will find it. 80% of her paper was typed. Does anyone know what will happen? Apparently up to a three week wait to get her results back too and I need to know if we are not happy, is this too late to appeal. She says the paper went very well, like the second Paper.

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Cbed · 27/08/2023 11:57

Thank you for this

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daffodilandtulip · 27/08/2023 12:44

DD did her GCSEs last year. For one of the English papers, she scored 0. We went through all the processes but they insisted that that paper was never lost. She was a grade 8/9 student so we know she didn't score 0 on a paper.

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Cbed · 27/08/2023 15:25

This is worrying me. So what was her final grade? And which exam board? Did you appeal to the JCQ? My daughter is always an 8 for biology

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WheelySquirrel · 27/08/2023 16:01

That seems highly improbable @daffodilandtulip - when you say you went through all the processes, did the school get a copy of the script? To get zero suggests something else going on, such as (random examples not saying this is what happened) a problem with the entry I.e. the school not actually entering the correct thing, or malpractice so the results being manually adjusted to zero. The school would have been able to find out what had happened, highly unlikely for a candidate to actually just score 0 marks unless they didn’t write anything creditable at all.

WheelySquirrel · 27/08/2023 16:02

Also @Cbed I know you’re just learning the processes and it’s complicated, but just in case it helps you, you can’t appeal to the JCQ - that’s just a collective group of the main exam boards. The school would have to appeal first to the exam board itself and then the further route to appeal after that is Ofqual (the regulator).

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Cbed · 27/08/2023 16:41

Thank you for this. Hopefully won’t come to this!!

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Cbed · 27/08/2023 20:40

Regarding the “look through the treasury tag hole”, this concerns me. If the typed pages (perhaps 5 pages), had been there, they would have been seen as the hole would be covered. So now I’m worried that the school don’t know for certain they have the typed pages, as the envelope is sealed. And I will never know if the school has acted correctly.

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MrsHamlet · 27/08/2023 20:52

Please try not to panic, @Cbed. The issue was only uncovered a few working days ago. They will be trying to resolve it

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Cbed · 27/08/2023 21:06

Thank you

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JaffavsCookie · 27/08/2023 21:36

I would be very tempted to get on the phone to AQA, or also maybe pay for a clerical recheck, its less than £9 ( and you will get it back if that have mislaid the pages) and that will prompt some poor devil to get searching in the warehouse.

MrsHamlet · 27/08/2023 21:55

There is little point in individuals contacting the board - everything has to come from the centre.
And a clerical check won't help either since they already know the script is AWOL.
You just have to bide your time. They will be looking for it.

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Cbed · 27/08/2023 21:58

Yes, the school examination officer has done this, and all of the typed work was not marked, just the words “not submitted”. So 80% of the work was not marked as “not submitted”.

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snalapaj · 29/08/2023 19:39

JaffavsCookie · 27/08/2023 21:36

I would be very tempted to get on the phone to AQA, or also maybe pay for a clerical recheck, its less than £9 ( and you will get it back if that have mislaid the pages) and that will prompt some poor devil to get searching in the warehouse.

Literally pointless doing this.

JaffavsCookie · 29/08/2023 21:11

I am not so sure about that @snalapaj
i can’t discuss it but I have quite a lot of dealings with AQA and it may well be the final thump that helps.

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Cbed · 30/08/2023 06:47

Thank you for this.
I’m finding more stories of students being given grades well below their papers that were marked, a concern as my daughter got a solid 8 in paper 2, and solid 8/9s for her mocks and her modules over two years

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Cbed · 01/09/2023 07:15

Over a week now since results and not a word from AQA. They haven’t yet requested the schools copy of the paper.

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Unexpecteddrivinginstructor · 12/09/2023 06:35

Any update OP?

In a similar position with a typed paper, although not as drastic, one of my dc's exam paper results looked out of place compared to the other three papers, so I was that parent who requested to see the paper to consider a review, just a few marks off the next grade. Apparently the exam board have lost the paper and 'can only see the summary marks'. The school's copy has been requested (which thankfully they have). So far we have only requested to see the paper not paid for a remark but presumably now the paper we see won't be a marked one so we won't be able to tell if the marking was correct. Does anyone know if the exam board remark it before we can see it? Presumably yes otherwise the school could just give us their copy. Can the marks still go down as well as up?

Hope you get some answers soon @Cbed and that the marks haven't affected sixth form choices. Fortunately for us it is in a subject already dropped.

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Cbed · 12/09/2023 07:40

Still no grade for my daughter. I’m believe the exam board now have it and are marking it, but it’s been stressful. You could call the exam board? I have done this and under the circumstances and because we are now several weeks since gcse grades were given, they’ve been very helpful. It’s all a bit upsetting,

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Unexpecteddrivinginstructor · 12/09/2023 08:07

That is good that they are remarking it finally hopefully your dd will get the grade she deserves.

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Cbed · 12/09/2023 08:38

Thank you 🤞

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Cbed · 14/09/2023 15:43

Great news. AQA requested the schools copy, and after 3 weeks, my daughters grade came through as an 8. So relieved her own work was marked and she got the mark she deserved. Thank you to everyone

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SoupDragon · 14/09/2023 15:50

That's wonderful! You must be so relieved! I read your thread when you started it but didn't post.

I had something similar happen to me (many many years ago!)

WheelySquirrel · 14/09/2023 18:54

Pleased to hear the system did work in the end OP though I appreciate the delay must have been stressful for you and your daughter. Congratulations to her 😊

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Cbed · 14/09/2023 18:59

Hoping bad luck doesn’t strike twice!

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