Anyone else have 0 faith in the exam system?

While the exam system may not be great, from what I'm reading it does just sound like people are blaming all their exam problems on markers and "unfair" exams.Have you considered that it may actually have been you that was the problem?

Don't worry I do sciences and i positively repped you, since I totally agree. I do 4 sciences and an essay based subject; and I have definitely noticed that it is only the essay based subjects that I received unexpected results; so I do feel for you guys.

Anyone else think we as a Forum have the power to make a difference?

I agree. It's so unfair that two similar students could end up with an A or a C depending on who marks it!
The variation between the difficulty, from what I've heard, of A-levels on different exam boards is sometimes quite wide (Chemistry has been mentioned) - and do employers or universities take this into account? Is AQA better than OCR for their degree because it uses different skills? WTF?
And I DEFINITELY agree with the time. Someone writing a professional essay that is reliable and intelligent will not have 2 hours or less to do it in. They will have many more sources and will not be under so much pressure (and they could have snack breaks if they need it!)
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Ever since Edexcel lost my foreign language oral exam recordings for GCSE, I lost faith in them. Especially as their answer was: 'Oh...um...yeah, we lost your work, so your teacher will just guess your grades...'

Really

I'd heard that they are drunkards but I didn't believe it at ALL and laughed it out. Things people say
God, I'm doing Edexcel and you here, just made me paranoid!

anybody know how much its costs to get your paper remarked? and how long you have to request it?

It varies depending on the exam/board. When I check my Law Unit 3 I got told £45 for the remark + £9/10 for a copy of my exam... I know that's the one you did as well, so expect around that.

The other thing that I forgot to add earlier, was how little time everyone gets to pay for these extortionate resits/remarks. We get our results on the 8th, then they expect us to pay with less than a week Then after that the prices double so it costs even worse amount, such as around £40-45 pound for a resit... How can they seriously spend weeks marking our exams to what is really a poor standard, then by the time we actually get them back, have days to sort anything out?

Totally agreed, especially on this point!!!!!

My friend(the same one who got all A grades without much work) also memorised a whole essay book written in HIS language and just wrote them in English for exams Now that's a smart idea and good use of knowing two languages Memorisation was his only skill, apart from arithmetic, and he used them well.

This really isn't the case.

There are exhaustive lists, and believe me, you can't just common sense your way through....

On that note, getting your paper back with the marks shouldn't cost anything at all, I understand remarks, but scanning your marked paper and sending it back?

I also revised crazily for an exam, got a C, resat it for the second time in January without looking at any books or anything at all and got an A.

It really isn't what you know it's how you apply it and use technique, it's a joke.

You see, that's what I thought, but it has to be the WHOLE AS grade not just the unit grade APPARENTLY. Those ********s, if the marks move significantly at all they've clearly not done their job properly and therefore I should be entitled to a ****ing refund!!

And to everyone, remember all the online marking errors a year or two ago? So last year they marked them supposedly all in person and by hand...right? But now they've just returned to online marking so what was the ****ting point?!

OFQUAL do NOTHING. NOTHING ever CHANGES!

A friend of mine got an unexpected D in a biology A2 exam, asked for the photocopy, counted up the marks and found he had an A! They had forgotten to count all the marks on the last page!

I dread to think how many people this happens to who don't then have the money to spare to go around asking for photocopies.

But for those that are complaining that the exam system just rewards memorization... you should see just how bad exam systems in other countries are. We have it great by comparison.