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Is 4 marks off a 7 in English lit worth a remark?

I do aqa. I got an 8 in my last English lit mocks and I have been getting 9s and 8s in my tests but I just received a 6 today. It didn’t surprise me because I had a total freak out in paper 1 (I think it was the stress of it being the first exam and getting no sleep the night before but idk) and I stared at both of the questions for like 20 minutes cause my brain was blank. Paper 2 felt like it went a bit better but idk. I ended up with 104/160 overall so I was only 4 marks off a 7😭. I got 42/64 in paper 1 and 62/96 in paper 2. Is it worth getting remarked? What are the chances of it going down to a 5 cause if it’s a significant change I just won’t bother as the rest of my grades were good. Also how do I know which paper to remark or do I just do both?

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by Asterope1
I do aqa. I got an 8 in my last English lit mocks and I have been getting 9s and 8s in my tests but I just received a 6 today. It didn’t surprise me because I had a total freak out in paper 1 (I think it was the stress of it being the first exam and getting no sleep the night before but idk) and I stared at both of the questions for like 20 minutes cause my brain was blank. Paper 2 felt like it went a bit better but idk. I ended up with 104/160 overall so I was only 4 marks off a 7😭. I got 42/64 in paper 1 and 62/96 in paper 2. Is it worth getting remarked? What are the chances of it going down to a 5 cause if it’s a significant change I just won’t bother as the rest of my grades were good. Also how do I know which paper to remark or do I just do both?
Odds are the grade will stay the same. I had one of my papers remarked last year for Media. I was two marks off a 7 and I was expecting an 8 or 9. The main reason I had it remarked was because my teacher emailed my parents to say that she was disappointed about it too and suggested I have a paper remarked (although I was similarly disappointed about my English grades as I got a 6 in Lang and a 7 in Lit when I was expecting 8s/9s and I was going to do all these subjects as A-levels). My mark for Media stayed exactly the same, which I think is partly because they give it back to the same examiner that originally marked it. It felt like a waste of money and only annoyed me more.

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