Remarks for 2014.

OMG JUST AS I WAS ON THIS THREAD COLLEGE RANG ME AND SAID MY REMARK IS BACK (Sent it off on Monday, AQA French A2 for anyone interested). It should arrive in the post tomorrow.
This is the day before results day all over again

You sent it off on Monday and it's already done? I'm still waiting since results day for OCR to remark my Geography A2 paper.

Edexcel history exam went up 14 ums! Still think it's incorrectly marked but overall achieved an A now. Expected an A* tbh. This is an A-level non priority remark.

How do they get it so wrong?

It always seems to happen to me. AS English lit I was awarded a u in the exam. This year I retook that exam and achieved nearly full ums and got an A overall. Loads of people in my school did a lot worse in history than they were expected. Think there may be a real problem with the marking.

I think i'm on a different board but our whole history class did worse. It seems the examiner decided he didn't like the structure we were given and marked us down a whole grade. Everyone got the same grade because of it despite our essays have a great deal of variation before we went into the exam.

What grade did you achieve with which exam board if you don't mind me asking?

is that 26 raw marks or 26 ums marks?

ums. F761

Hello everyone,
I'm in a tricky situation and any help would be excellent. I'm looking at studying geography at Bristol uni , it wants AAA and I have A*AB ( A* in prod des, A in geog and B in bio) and an A* in ep related to geography. Do you think I would get a place if I applied it would they instantly dismiss me new use of my grades . Also I'm 2ums of an A* in geography which is like 1 mark . I can get it remarked but if I loose marks I can lose the A and get a B . I'd have to loose 8 marks for that to happen . Do I remark it or not , my teachers all say it's your choice but loosing 8 marks is a huge amount and as I only need less than 1 mark it comes across as they think I should do it without advising for obvious reasons . I know it's long but thank you in advance for responses !! }

Are you taking a gap year and applying for next year?
You should probably ring up Bristol and ask them if they'd be likely to accept you with that, after all you have actually achieved the grades whereas when they give out offers, there's the chance people won't achieve and they'll be let in anyway.
But if they say nope, then may as well remark, it looks pretty close and I shouldn't think that it would go down by that much..
Good luck whatever you do!

Thankyou for the response , yes I'm applying for next year . Being so close to the A* is annoying but losing the A would be awfull . Do you think Bristol would be able to give me a sensible answer or if I apply for them will they instantly turn me down because I'm a grade short . My friend got in with the Shane grades as me to do the Same course but she is going this year. I'm not sure if that's because she was awaiting he results whereas I have mine ? Thanks again

Yeah, I'm 3 UMS away from an A* in one subject myself which I found irritating at first but I don't really mind now, then again I do have a place at uni already so nothing depended on it but pride!
I guess all you can do is try, you never know, they may decide that the grade in the hand is better than the grade in the bush! Or you could email their geography admissions as well, but I'd say you have a pretty good shot if you say your friend got in with those results!

When is the deadline for remarks this year?

Japanese A2 is pending...

Hello everyone,
I'm in a tricky situation and any help would be excellent. I'm looking at studying geography at Bristol uni , it wants AAA and I have A*AB ( A* in prod des, A in geog and B in bio) and an A* in ep related to geography. Do you think I would get a place if I applied it would they instantly dismiss me new use of my grades . Also I'm 2ums of an A* in geography which is like 1 mark . I can get it remarked but if I loose marks I can lose the A and get a B . I'd have to loose 8 marks for that to happen . Do I remark it or not , my teachers all say it's your choice but loosing 8 marks is a huge amount and as I only need less than 1 mark it comes across as they think I should do it without advising for obvious reasons . I know it's long but thank you in advance for responses !! }

Hello! I have a friend who took Edexcel AS English Language and Literature. In his coursework he got a high A and in the written exam he got a high C. Normally he would get high As in his written exams hence this was worth "challenging".

After the remark, he had been notified that his UMS had remained exactly the same! On each question the A01 / A02 marks were given the same mark as those by the original examiner.

Days after this news, the post arrived with the copy of his English paper. There was a fundamental error on the first question- for those of you who do E.L.L Edexcel, you should know that the first question is either right or wrong (and it was right and marked wrong).

Therefore even after the remark, this was not ammended and the exact same marks were given. In addtion, our teacher confirmed the error of the remark.

I am a close friend of his and would like to know if a second appeal would be possible.

Is it? Many thanks,

Silphon