Apologies in advance for the long-winded post! :P
Hey guys, my first post here on TSR! I've been lurking around but never really bothered joining the forum until now! To cut a long story short, in February 2012 (roughly halfway through Year 10) I moved schools (better life where I am now, better quality of education etc.) and I should probably add that I was totally aware of the ramifications of doing so. I've caught up just fine, attended after school revision and catch-up sessions etc. and as a result of my hard work, hopefully I'll be coming out with mostly B/A grades (precisely what I was hoping for)! I'll begin my A Level studies at my Sixth Form in September.
Anyway, I have a query about possibly getting a remark done on an exam I did last year. I don't know if it's been cashed in yet (I assume it would've been by now) but I'm hoping I can get it remarked. Basically, I studied Edexcel English Language (for those who don't know, it is a one-year course) and came out with a B grade with an overall score of 238 UMS.
Now, I was quite happy with this final grade, although I was hoping for an A. In my old school I had achieved an A grade in one of the exams that I had done for my English GCSE, but due to having different exam boards (my old school used AQA), I could not carry it over. This is what made me hope I would come out with an A grade overall.
This year, we have been given access to ResultsPlus Direct to check our results online. Now, I'm not someone that looks at the grade boundaries to see how close I came to reaching the next highest grade. I'm quite happy to be done with it and not look back (although I can see how important it is now to check) as I usually feel guilt at not doing better. Only when I check the website, do I realise that I was TWO MARKS away from 240 UMS! I was so close to achieving that A grade that I had wanted so much!
My question is this: am I too late to get it remarked? After all, a year has passed and I've only realised this now. I have a hunch that I'm probably too late.
Oh and it might be worth adding that by quite a strange coincidence, on my AS level English Lang.& Lit. course that I studied a year early, I received an overall C grade with a score of 138 UMS. TWO MARKS from a B grade and a 100 point difference from my English GCSE UMS score. My C grade at AS was what I was targeted at, but I was hoping for a B grade! I think I'll be able to get this remarked considering how recently I completed it though.