I think a lot of schools really aren’t interested in doing follow/up to give students the best final outcomes. This can especially be the case in 11-16 places where everyone leaves and won’t be seen again.
I agree that all students should receive their grade, total marks and breakdown for papers plus the grade boundaries and info about the process for requesting scripts and review of marking, with charges.
However if this info was available to all far more would want review of marking. The system would be overloaded
It wouldn’t be unreasonable for candidates to be able request their scripts and request a review via the centre without teacher input. There is certainly a limit to how many scripts a teacher can be asked to reasonably look at….and crucially when. For A Level for priority re/mark the week long period is all within the school holiday. Sixth Form colleges can have hundreds sitting individual subjects. Potentially hundreds might want reviews in the holiday. So it falls on students.
I actually don’t think it’s it reasonable for families to have to decide without teachers. BUT to do this students and families need full info about grades, boundaries and paper breakdown. Many don’t have this.
One reason some schools don’t provide all this info is that they only receive their grade results the day before and I’m a format which needs a lot of processing to get ready for students the next day. Grade boundaries are often not actually available until 8am of results day - so actually getting th ready to send out with results at 8am/9am might not be possible. But an email with links to relevant websites and details of the specification followed by the school (there are often lots of different ones and this is confusing) could be sent out. Certainly school policies, costs and details of when and if someone is available for support could also be sent.
Sometimes the info is sent but remains buried in student emails. Sometimes it’s not sent. But often parents only start realising what info might be useful the day after results day and by then it’s hard to get from school or college.
Essentially much of this is to do with education underfunding. Exam markers are poorly paid and in short supply with poorly qualified people being needed. Marking is a bit of a lottery. And many students and families have little idea about the info needed to make sensible decisions about whether to have a review or not. And that’s before cost implications. Schools have no spare cash for this. But the genuine cost is what reviews charge at. Schools can’t really be suggesting or highlighting reviews too much, in the same way they can’t push anything chargeable too much, as many can’t afford it. Schools might spot some likely anomolied but can’t afford to get them looked into. There is zero cash. So it’s affluent parents who can fork out who tend to get the reviews. It’s not the school faults that they can’t afford to pay for it, nor should they be expecting teachers to do lots of script checking and advising / I’m the end the student takes responsibility and risk of grade dropping. But as seen the drop was 0.1% so generally worth looking into. The boards prob don’t want these figures known as they don’t want too many reviews to manage and the more corrected grades, the more the system loses credibility.
Hsbing seem teacher sssessed graded in Covid, exams still remain the best system though…