Remarking GCSEs

Marvel1

Depends on your risk level of 50/50 going each way.

sn1987a

The school cannot force anyone to sign a paper for remarking. Ask the school how many marks he was away from the next grade and how many marks away from the lower grade. If you are confident with the system, just ask the raw marks and look it up online by yourself by finding the boundaries of the paper. You may have already the individual marks from the gcse certificate. I doubt the school would want a remark if they think that the grade could go down.

If you have the individual marks and the exam board, I can help you find the boundaries to see how far away he was from the next grade.

FBaby

They are clearly prepared to pay for it, so they must feel quite confident that they have a good chance to go up and next to none going down.

It all depends on how they feel and whether going up a mark would make a difference. If it's a case of going from a B to an A and they are happy with their course, and they don't intend on studying Medicine, then I would leave it behind.

If it's a case of trying to go from a D to a C in Maths, even if on the course, I would think it is worth doing if they are only a couple of points from the C grade.

suejb2

In my opinion, and it's what you asked for, you have nothing to lose.

The school are doing it for their benefit as well as your sons, it will probably improve their overall ranking in the school league tables. Doubt they will do it if there was a chance of it lowering .

They are paying for it.

Savvy_Sue

Surely if they want him to sign this piece of paper that badly, they'll be willing to post it to him and let him send it back again?

maman

Eliza wrote: »

Will probably just ignore in that case and hope they can't insist. If the grade goes down he will have to come off his course, or resit. If it goes up it won't make a lot of difference to that though it could long term I suppose. Just wondered if anyone else had encountered this situation.

Thanks

It happens quite a lot. Most parents would want to support the school and make sure their child had the best possible mark. Some parents request and pay for a remark themselves.

I can't believe any school would consider an expensive remark unless they thought the pupils would do better after.

I'd ask the school the questions.

dekaspace

Apologies for butting in but thinking back to 19 years ago when I left school I was expected to get a high 2 or low 1 grade in Computer Studies, what had happened was we had 1 day of teaching robotics in 2 years and teacher said it has never came up in the history of exams so not to worry, when the exam came in it was pretty much 90% robotics so I only got a grade 3, a few weeks later I got a new certificate with a grade 1 which was my prelim result.

Never understood why I got it without requesting though.

silvercar

Schools rarely offer to pay. They must have a very strong feeling that the mark will go up.

clairec79

dekaspace wrote: »

Apologies for butting in but thinking back to 19 years ago when I left school I was expected to get a high 2 or low 1 grade in Computer Studies, what had happened was we had 1 day of teaching robotics in 2 years and teacher said it has never came up in the history of exams so not to worry, when the exam came in it was pretty much 90% robotics so I only got a grade 3, a few weeks later I got a new certificate with a grade 1 which was my prelim result.

Never understood why I got it without requesting though.

I know my daughters school (see above) have said if all the ones they have selected for remark go up significantly they will pay for the entire year to be remarked - I'm guessing if it's a year wide thing they don't ask individual permission

System

Schools like good grades. It looks good on them. They would hardly want to pay if they were sure grades would be marked down.