Brad22 (Offline)

Either way it's still good evidence for French - I'm sure you'll have other things than the prelim to back you up.

For English - you'd think that wouldn't you? But it really isn't that strong evidence. But hey, we're all wrong here and there. The powers at be might actually find it very convincing. You might as well send out for an appeal, nothing to lose!

The SQA are very iffy about appeals.

I can't tell you what will happen, it's purely down to the SQA. Appeals for subjects are considered per appeal, not appeals per candidate. Sending in one appeal would have no advantage over sending in two appeals.

With French it sounds like you have a strong appeal - did you do a second prelim? And if so, what's your mark in that? If both are a grade A then you have a good chance of the SQA bumping the grade up to a B. Other things where you performed well will also be taken into account.

With English you will be at the mercy of the board, you don't sound like you have strong evidence in your favour - The grade boundary for an A this year was only 64% and achieving lower than that indicates that your prelim may have just been a lucky draw for you.

Go for the appeals, I think you'll get bumped up to a B for French if you have other evidence of being an A-level candidate.

English doesn't sound good unfortunately
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