WJEC AS Biology-- Got an unexpectedly low grade?

Maybe you could order a copy of your script and go through it with your teacher to see if they feel you deserve a higher mark? How far are you from a B also? The thing is remarks are expensive and if you're not sure how WJEC could have messed up the marking I think it'd be best to see where exactly you lost the marks first before spending almost £40 on a remark that may or may not increase your grade. I also took WJEC biology and I feel like a lot of questions have a very specific markscheme so I don't know where you could pick up a lot of marks, apart from possibly the 10 mark question at the end of the paper.

I was about 2 marks away in BY2. It just seems odd that BY1 was a D because I was very confident with Biochemistry. I'm starting to feel like WJEC science is impossible because of the specific markscheme...

WJEC Biology is a pain, I can't talk about any other science because I don't take it but WJEC is very specific. I got a lower grade in BY1 as well despite feeling more confident with BY1 during the year. If you feel like there's been a huge mistake you could ask for a remark from your teacher but personally I would order a copy of your script first to see where the marks were lost. The thing is if the remark doesn't increase your grade that money is wasted (I don't know if your school pays for remarks but we have to pay for it ourselves).

I did both WJEC Chemistry and Biology, and got my AS grades on thursday too. Biology particularly its super important to have done all of the past papers and marked your answers yourself. Questions are often repeated, and although specific answers are required, the answers are common to almost every years mark schemes. It's also important to get a copy of the Spec and revise from that, its not all explained in detail but at least you know exactly what the exam board expect you to know, in their own words. The WJEC revision guide is helpful but not as necessary as the other two, as it's not written by the people writing the papers. (Just for reference, I don't mean to brag or anything, I got As in both, and 96% overall in Bio. My biology teacher also works for the exam board, in writing papers and marking.) If you do all of that already I don't mean to sound patronising! I hope that helps even just a tiny bit if you re-sit.

Thanks guys.

I'm probably going to wait until my Biology teachers get back to me before I decide whether to get it remarked, but deep down I know that I worked as hard as I could for that subject, so if it stays a C then I won't resit. I did everything: past papers, marking my own work, checking the spec and getting my father to ask me questions based off it... you name it.
I'm very, very bitter that WJEC is so precious about their mark scheme when they can't provide a solid revision guide written by the people who write the papers without mistakes in it.

I'm honestly 100% sick of the WJEC.

Thanks guys.

I'm probably going to wait until my Biology teachers get back to me before I decide whether to get it remarked, but deep down I know that I worked as hard as I could for that subject, so if it stays a C then I won't resit. I did everything: past papers, marking my own work, checking the spec and getting my father to ask me questions based off it... you name it.
I'm very, very bitter that WJEC is so precious about their mark scheme when they can't provide a solid revision guide written by the people who write the papers without mistakes in it.

I'm honestly 100% sick of the WJEC.

hey, I know this might be late but I just wanted to say that I think you should try and get your paper back to know where you went wrong this might also help with A2 bio exams because you'll know how they mark and how you could maybe improve your expression of words to fit their specific mark schemes I found BY1 really difficult, and the first question totally messed my head up completely and I love bio chem too and revised from day one for BY1 and we focused on the BY1 module the most in class ... but I and manyyyyy others in the class got worse in BY1 than BY2 XD #wjeclogic.... don't be too disheartened, you will figure out a way, you care about the subject and the grades so just talk to your teachers and don't dwell on it .. yunno in science this would be classed as an anomaly so go back check the experiment and if ya want repeat it ^_^ good luck