(TL;DR at the bottom) Sorry if this is long i just need to vent a bit. But Yeah the post is exactly what it seems. I know a lot of people have been screwed over by harsh grade boundaries, strict markers and so on. But I seriously don’t understand whats going on with my results.
As for my mocks/predicted grades I was a consistent A* student throughout my Politics class, and have shown that I can achieve consistent A’s and B’s in my Psychology and Law mocks. I was revising extremely hard during exam season and was practically learning the entire specification off by heart. And when I actually got to sitting my exams I’d thought I’d absolutely blew them out the park in comparison to my previous mocks as I was building upon the mistakes I had previously made in them. So it’s safe to say that I was prosperous in achieving A’s and A*’s across my psychology exams and A’s and B’s in Law (I’d consider Law to be one of my weaker A-Levels prior to this). Thoughout my essays and answers I was applying all the relevant terminology, presenting cases for law, studies for psychology, and any relevant events within UK/US politics for my Politics essays. Every argument I was presenting for evaluations were concise and well-structured. So I was safe in believing that I had knocked these exams out the park.
However I open up my exam results today to see a C in Psychology and Law, and a D in Politics. With law being my best subject in all of my A-Levels, despite me struggling the most on those papers.
What really grinds my gears about the whole thing is mostly the Politics grade I got, not just because it was considered my weakest A-Level but because my friends from that Politics class were getting the same grades as me or even higher. The same friends who were asking me for all the advice throughout the papers, how to structure essays, the ones that were reading through my past mock exams to get a grasp of the papers. They themselves think something’s definitely wrong, and my politics teacher believes there’s something definitely wrong as well. As for my other teachers, I havent been able to speak to them, my psychology teacher has only just retired and my Law teacher is nowhere to be found.
As for the rest of the college, No-one studying A-Levels was able to achieve an A. Not even the consistent A* students that I have seen get 90% or higher on Psychology papers. So i don’t know whats going on here.
I’m going into the college tomorrow to ask about re-marks, I’m sure my politics teacher can definitely back me up for a much higher grade than what was given, and I can give out any updates if necessary. But thank you for reading what i have to say, and if you have anything to say about this then please let me know.
Cheers.
TL;DR - Predicted A’s and A*s in mocks, did BETTER in my A-Levels than any other mocks and got CCD, with the subject where i was getting consistent A*s being the one i got a D in. And No one else in my college got an A.