exam remarked

[mollykins]

1) If I did two exams for a subjects but only got the overall grade, including corsework, can I find out what grades I got on what?

2) How much does it cost to have a paper remarked, and would I have to pay for both to be done or jsut one that's lower than expected, if it is only one that is?

[Count-A-Strong]

Just remember, if you have a paper remarked your mark can go down as well as up.

[mollykins]

That's what I'm worried about

[mollykins]

But don't you also think it's odd that it happened to someone else in m class?

We were both redicted a* and had both been getting them in all the mocks our teacher made us do and in our courseworks and both ended up with a B, maybe the same d o u c h e marked them . . . .

[cc1]

Your school or wherever should have the breakdown of the marks for the different componants, ie written papers and coursework.
If the school feels you have been incorrectly graded, they can ask for a remark and pay. I don't know if it is still the case, but the examboards used to only deal through the exam centres for re-marks, so if the school is unwilling to pay then you can ask for it to be done through them and pay then Centre.
I don't know the cost, but it didn't used to be cheap!

[DocHH]

Mollykins, is there any way you could discuss the grades with your Course Tutors, to see if they think it is worth appealing the over-all grades? They will have a far better understanding of your ability and hence the probability of being assigned higher grades.

[mollykins]

I jsut googled it and AQA say that if you have it remarked and you go up, you don't have to pay

[craft1948]

Molly...........get over yourself and accept the pretty decent marks you got.......okay so you're not brain of britain but many would be over the moon with your grades....

[redcrx]

i agree with craft, youve got the grades to get into 6th form so leave it at that.

[mollykins]

But a overall grade which is 2 below what you're predicted and the lowest you get is disapointing. But this means i might have got a C in one or both of the exams!

[mollykins]

is there a short time period, in which you have to appeal?

[craft1948]

God help the education authorities if you don't get your expected 'A' level grades!!

[mollykins]

I do better when i'm concentrating on a few things, say four, a lot rather than a little on say ten.

[brenda]

I am lost off now by the grades you actually got or didn't get.As has been suggested you should discuss this with your Year Head or whoever the person is who deals with these things.They should be able to give you some help , and point you in the direction of requesting a re-mark.
I do find it odd that the school secretary,/ receptionist is phoning pupils to inform them that their results are different to the ones they have received from the exam board(s).
Is there no one you can actually go and see at your school to sort this out?
Have your parents nothing to say about the problem?
I know that if this had happened to me as you report , My Father who was very strict in his way about my education , would have been camping out on the school steps for an explanation.

[mollykins]

There were quite a few people with mistakes on their papers, and last year my freind had a star missed off of one of their grades by mistake.

But someone I knew had a doctors note because they had to go see a specialist in London who couldn't rebook for months and months. So they missed two exams, one of which they got their predicted grade for and the other, with another examboard they got whatver the mark is for absent which needs sorting out.

[DocHH]

I agree with you brenda.
Another way of looking at this Mollykins, is to ask yourself, will these grades stop me from studying the subjects I need at A level in order to pursue the career I want to pursue? If the answer is "no", then why persist in the quest to get these GCSE's re-marked. If you achieve the correct grades at A level, these GCSE grades will be irrelevant, and once you have a degree in your chosen subject, the A-levels are irrelevant. Plus if you go for post-graduate Degrees, the first is irrelevant, unless like mine are in different subjects.

[mollykins]

But with uni places getting more and more limited and the announcement that some places might be decided on gcse grades and this anomally in my results, I want to at least try and get it higher

[DocHH]

Media hype!

[mollykins]

And i'm not even sure if i'm guaranteed to get to do a-level geography with only a B. . . . (trying to find sheet with minimum requirements) . . . . they'd like you to have an A but will consider B grade candidates . . . .

[novalis]

Hi Mollykins!

Yes there is a time limit - four weeks from the publication of results.

As an examiner involved in appeals re-marks I find that the vast majority of scripts which I receive have been marked fairly and accurately in the first place. There are, however, always some which have been clearly wrongly assessed. ( In both directions. )

I can only echo the advice given above; discuss the matter with your parents and course tutor. If the latter is of the opinion that you should have been two grades higher then an appeal could well be successful.

The same examiner will have marked all the paper ones for the subject from your school and a different examiner will have marked all the paper twos.

[mollykins]

My parents want a remark, but I didn't see my geography teacher and the other one seemed happy with my grade but i'm not sure if he knew how well I was predicted to do and I didn't have chance to talk to him properly as I was about to explain my predicted grades but he got called away.

But seing what I got in each exam would be more useful. Do you think i'll be able to find out when I go for the interview for the sixth form?