GCSE Geography Coursework Advice Needed.

I would ask what happened to the rest of the courseworks in your centre as if they'd all gone down by similar marks, then it was your teacher being to generous. Many people think they have got certain things, when they haven't and teachers seem to be getting more lenient with giving marks and coursework moderators are getting more and more annoyed, I'm a geography Coursework and Fieldwork & Skill Advisor for AQA. Also it will be internally moderated, it may have changed then.

Simks, not all GCSEs were marked harshly, it is based on the ability of the people doing the course.

Hi, it seems like a lot of people in our class got around 58-60/60 marks and I over heard the teacher said that the coursework which got sent away got around 48/60 marks. I think that the teacher marked everyone quite highly. I have a feeling that everyone grades were pulled down quite a lot and that includes mine. What should I do ?

by sounds of it, your whole class has been pulled down, and managed to get hold of what I think is your classes results, and they all have gone down, so there's no real point you trying to get more marks I would just accept it, as it is still a good mark, especially for coursework.

There is a drive at the minute for improving coursework and fieldwork & Skills, even though funding is ending at the end of the year, trying to get it better and this is at the moment happening with primary aged kids, and teachers are being encouraged to do it at key stage 3, this has been going on for the past 2 years, but is picking up just as the money for it runs out.

Hi, I wanted to know if you work at AQA and if you do, how much is it for the remark ? Thanks

I work for AQA, but at A Level exams, not GCSE/

http://store.aqa.org.uk/admin/library/AQA-POST-RESULTS-FEES.PDF

Hi, I don't really understand this information. Can you please tell me how much it would cost to remark cousrework with additional fees please? Thank you.

almost exactly the same situation for me, except that my AQA geography coursework was originally marked at 53/60 by the class teacher, was then internally moderated up to 56/60 which should have given me a clear A*, but on my results I've been downgraded to a (high) C. Everyone I have spoken to thus far in my year group also got a C for their coursework, most having been downgraded from a mark equating to an A* or an A.

my school has a great record with GCSE Geography results in past years, presumably including controlled assessments, and the controlled assessment marks for all my other pieces of work in other subjects ( eg history, the three sciences and English stayed the same as the teachers award or were moderated upwards), so the school would appear to understand the marking criteria and standards expected.

we attended a recognised field centre for our data gathering, were strictly monitored to ensure our work was done within the time frames and in strictly controlled conditions. As with the sciences, we all checked our work against the assessment objectives so it is very hard to see how a piece of work can be marked down so drastically. The marks for the other exam papers are all A* and As across the class, it seems, so a C grade for the controlled assessment is difficult to understand as well as disappointing.