The exam boards in the UK are inadequate and ruin kid's futures with their incompetence.
I am a teacher and examiner for exam boards. The standards for marking exams get lower every year. You used to do a day for face to face training, now you are lucky if you get a 10 minute video. The system is made to protect the exam board, rather than make sure each student is given a fair grade.
If you request a remark, the mark will only change if the remark brings the response to a higher level on the mark scheme. So an examiner might award 4 marks on a remark but it will come as unchanged because it stays within a level on the mark scheme. Bare in mind some students miss out on their uni places by 1 mark. Remarks per paper cost at least £50.
Examiners are 'moderated' or 'seeded' which means a small sample of their marks are checked against the chief examiner. For some NEA subjects, if the examiner is seen to be out an algorithm will change all of their marks (without another human looking at all the responses).
Basically, if you have rich parents or go to a private school, you can probably pay to get the incompetent marking corrected. If you are poor or go to a state school, you probably have to live with it.
I am a teacher and examiner for exam boards. The standards for marking exams get lower every year. You used to do a day for face to face training, now you are lucky if you get a 10 minute video. The system is made to protect the exam board, rather than make sure each student is given a fair grade.
If you request a remark, the mark will only change if the remark brings the response to a higher level on the mark scheme. So an examiner might award 4 marks on a remark but it will come as unchanged because it stays within a level on the mark scheme. Bare in mind some students miss out on their uni places by 1 mark. Remarks per paper cost at least £50.
Examiners are 'moderated' or 'seeded' which means a small sample of their marks are checked against the chief examiner. For some NEA subjects, if the examiner is seen to be out an algorithm will change all of their marks (without another human looking at all the responses).
Basically, if you have rich parents or go to a private school, you can probably pay to get the incompetent marking corrected. If you are poor or go to a state school, you probably have to live with it.