GCSE reviews news

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I know there are a few of us who have requested reviews of GCSE papers or thinking about it so thought it might be useful to have a place to share news.

We have got scripts back for both English Lit and Lang for DD and her English tutor is having a look to see if a review is worthwhile. She was predicted a 9 and got 9s in mocks and came out with a 6. Once he’s had a look, we’ll make a decision.

Also got scripts back for Chemistry and I’m sure a 6 mark calculation that has been scored 0 should have been awarded some marks (and she’s only 1 off the boundary) so will have a closer look at that later.

True, in DCs case he was one off a grade 7 in Maths. Not doing maths at a level and not needing any higher grade. School suggested a remark because he was predicted a 7 and maths was the only GCSE where he wasn’t typing. His pen work is not very legible because of disability. So the only concern I had was if it was worth the cost. Quite glad we did it

DS has just had his English Lit review back, and paper 2 has gone up by 10 marks, which does improve his grade. It's definitely worth doing. He was either 2 or 3 short of the grade boundary, but I can't remember which 😁😁😁

Which exam board was that @gingercat02 ?@g@gingercat02? And congrats!

AQA, I'm amazed how fast it was!

We request permission to download papers within marks (Maths) and double chexk the exam marking. Each question is marked by different markers so there's definitely room for marks to change.

We're offering November re-sits for any within 6 marks for Maths and English too this year

College rather than school though.

Thanks @gingercat02 . Different exam board from ours, but still encouraging. DS is only one mark off the boundary.

I'm in NI and we put in for a remark and it came back today and it has gone up a grade.

NI here too, have requested remarks just yesterday for 4 papers which are very close to grade boundaries, hopeishere do you mind if I ask which board and how long it took?

Hi, it was CCEA and we put the paperwork in last Friday and got it back yesterday. It was Spanish. I do wonder if it was an adding up error rather than a marking error for it to come back so fast. We can see he got an extra two marks and that changed the grade.

Thanks for this hopeishere we requested on Thursday just past so might hear something next week.
It’s so frustrating being one or two marks off the boundary which can make a world of difference to options for year 13 😭😭

Just got result of English Language review. One mark off boundary, went up two marks, so gone up a grade.

That's fantastic @tobyj , congratulations!!!

Just got my dds OCR English Lit review back (only submitted one paper). She went up 14 marks!!! Can't quite believe it. Went from a 6 to a very solid 7. So happy for her as she was disappointed by her initial grade, but also questioning how the first examiner could have got it so wrong!

Wow, that's amazing! (And awful at the same time.)

How long are people waiting for the reviews/checks?

AQA submitted on Tues and not had back yet. I saw someone else post further up thread that they got AQA back quickly. I expect subject and volume makes a difference.

School told us within 20 working days. DS English Lit was back in a week (went up by 10 marks) and maths a few days longer (didn't change). 2nd maths paper still awaited. It went in on 30 August

OCR History took 6 days and went up a grade.

AQA English language and literature were submitted on Thursday 29th, no news yet.

Second maths paper came back last week with no improvement. Paper 3 gone for review now.