[FuzzySheep]

Sometimes, I just think that they have to be working for remark profits.

[A.J10]

(Original post by Game_boy)
Not true. I had my Chemistry paper back as a photocopy and was then able to get it remarked. Your friend either didn't pay for the priority service, or got his original script back.

To be honest, I've never had this issue myself, only heard about it from others; I've never had my papers remarked or returned. Maybe different exam boards have different rules?

[StrawberryKoi]

(Original post by chaosdestro0)
WJEC is by far the worst, I couldn't mark a specimen paper once for one of my subjects as nearly all the answers they gave were wrong! And yes my teacher said they were wrong too.

Same for a specimen OCR chemistry paper I did the other day. So many mistakes

[Ryan_94]

The simple answer is no! An entire years worth of work and curriculum all comes down to one or two days with a test based on a few select questions that are marked by an examiner that is influenced by their mood and opinion... grrr

[A.J10]

(Original post by Ryan_94)
The simple answer is no! An entire years worth of work and curriculum all comes down to one or two days with a test based on a few select questions that are marked by an examiner that is influenced by their mood and opinion... grrr

Not to mention how good you're feeling on the day. Study leave is a killer for sleep patterns... I have an exam on monday. Staying up late tonight, get up (relatively) early tomorrow so that I'll sleep tomorrow night and then be in a suitable sleeping arrangement for sunday/monday.

But seriously, you know those days when you feel like you could blitz anything? and those days where you wake up and know that your head isn't up to full speed that day? The difference for that could be 10% on an exam.

[cyfer]

No it's not fair because I tend to write especially unorthodox answers which examiners either love or hate

[The Doggfather]

I had my Economics paper remarked, It went from U to A!



Turns out, it wasn't marked in the first place lol

[internet tough guy]

No, but neither is life.

[LeeC]

Exams aren't fair but seem to be the best way to determine understanding of a particular subject at the moment, short of interviews which are time consuming.

[IgorYakov]

http://www.channel4.com/news/whistle...-mark-mistakes

Just look at that! What is wrong with it :/

[zincoff]

Anyone else ****ting their pants that exam boards are gonna mess up their results after reading this thread?

[Clare~Bear]

(Original post by neon)
They can't though. At my university, for economics for example they give more offers than they have places because they expect people to miss their offers. That year most people (well, more than they expected) made their offers. Due to this, they had to let waay too many people on the course. If they let people who just missed their offers they would have been even more over quota. And there is always clearing at other universities though.

Well they could make less offers then

[zincoff]

(Original post by Clare~Bear)
Well they could make less offers then

Well not really, it was just a one-off year. They don't arbitrarily make offers for the sake of it, they do it from data from past statistics of students that have made their offers compared to the number of offers given.

[Data]

(Original post by dean01234)
maths... where edexcel effectively change peoples overall marks to limit the number of people on certain grades...

Every exam board does this; it's how the system works.

[Data]

(Original post by rmpr97)
The fact that you have to pay for a remark (when the examiner has made a mistake) dumbfounds me.

If the grade changes on the re-mark you get your money back so you do not pay if the examiner has made a mistake.

[Data]

(Original post by A.J10)
To be honest, I've never had this issue myself, only heard about it from others; I've never had my papers remarked or returned. Maybe different exam boards have different rules?

They all work to the same rules and same deadlines to make it simpler (but different prices as they are meant to be in competition). If you get a priority script back then you have about 4 weeks to decide if you want to get a re-mark.

[A.J10]

(Original post by Data)
They all work to the same rules and same deadlines to make it simpler (but different prices as they are meant to be in competition). If you get a priority script back then you have about 4 weeks to decide if you want to get a re-mark.

Fair enough, one of us had gotten it wrong then

[overskrill]

I completely agree. I was getting straight As in English essays, then I pissed my teacher off a little and suddenly I was getting Ds in every essay. After making up with her, I started getting As again. They're only human so these factors will affect your grades, I'm capable of As/A*s in English Language and Literature but I'm afraid I may only get Bs now because of this.

[LydiaCPatterson]

Personally I hate how much is down to chance when it comes to exams. Weeks, months, even a year of work comes down to a time-pressured paper which is influenced both by how you're feeling/what's going on in your life on the day and the same for the examiner when they are marking it.

I also don't like how much information you're supposed to memorise for exams like Psychology, especially when you have other exams to study for at the same time. Exams shouldn't be memory tests because it's not fair at all.

Also some people will be able to write faster under pressured conditions but I can't. In English exams I always end up running out of time and it affects my grade. I get As and A*s in the coursework and Cs in the exams so that the overall grade comes out at a B when I need an A. I resat my AS Literature exam and got a B because the questions were more suited to the interpretations of the texts I had studied, which shows that how well you do on the exam depends on if the question is relevant to what you have been taught, and if it isn't then you're sunk.

My whole future hinges on this Literature exam next Wednesday, because if I don't get an A in it I'm not going to university, and from my past exam grades it's not going to happen.

[iamkeeley]

(Original post by LydiaCPatterson)
Personally I hate how much is down to chance when it comes to exams. Weeks, months, even a year of work comes down to a time-pressured paper which is influenced both by how you're feeling/what's going on in your life on the day and the same for the examiner when they are marking it.

I also don't like how much information you're supposed to memorise for exams like Psychology, especially when you have other exams to study for at the same time. Exams shouldn't be memory tests because it's not fair at all.

Also some people will be able to write faster under pressured conditions but I can't. In English exams I always end up running out of time and it affects my grade. I get As and A*s in the coursework and Cs in the exams so that the overall grade comes out at a B when I need an A. I resat my AS Literature exam and got a B because the questions were more suited to the interpretations of the texts I had studied, which shows that how well you do on the exam depends on if the question is relevant to what you have been taught, and if it isn't then you're sunk.

My whole future hinges on this Literature exam next Wednesday, because if I don't get an A in it I'm not going to university, and from my past exam grades it's not going to happen.

Completely agree. Exams really are a test of memory not intelligence! Most of the time anyway