I received an A in English Lit (Edexcel) after being a straight A* student in all of my classwork. Since I was 1 mark away from the boundary, I requested my scripts back so I could judge if it was worth getting them remarked.
I was shocked to find that I got 36/40 on Paper 2 (a score I would expect) but only 33/60 on Paper 3. Having read my responses back, I do not think that the quality of answer is different enough to warrant that kind of mark on Paper 3. Individually I received 17/30 and 16/30 on the two questions, which are scores I have quite literally never received in my academic career. I'm very happy with the responses I gave and feel that they answer the question and hit the AOs.
My question is, is that kind of disparity (I'm thinking at least 10 marks, probably more) actually possible? I got my friend who does English Lit as well to read my papers over and she absolutely agrees that I was considerably undermarked, but the odds feel incredibly slim and I feel a bit like I'm going insane.