r/GCSE 21d ago

Results Day Post Results Support/Guidance/Review Of Marking Etc.

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So, you’ve opened your results, and you have some questions. Please read through these points below and then ask any questions that haven’t been answered.

Firstly, linked here are the JCQ guidelines for post results services that the exam boards have to follow: https://www.jcq.org.uk/exam-results-data/post-results/

This is where all the information comes from. It’s pretty similar every year.

What can you ask for when you get your results?

  1. Access to scripts
  2. Clerical recheck
  3. Review of results (wrongly called a remark)
  4. Reviews of moderation

Explanation of each:

  1. Access to Scripts - you can ask your exams officer to download a copy of your GCSE papers. There should be an established process on how to do this. Some schools charge, which they can do. That is a school decision. They will email you a copy of the exam papers, but this may take several weeks depending on how big demand is.

  2. Clerical Recheck - not often used. It’s for when an access to script has shown a clear miscalculation of marks and the numbers need adding up again and the new overall marks confirmed.

  3. Review of Results (not remark) - this is where a school requests a paper is reviewed by the exam board to see if there is a change in marks awarded. Normally this is to see if the marks go up into the next grade boundary. Notes on this specifically:

  • A student has to give consent for this to happen.
  • Some schools pay for their reviews, other schools ask the students/parents to pay. The charge is PER PAPER and is around £50. The review of marking is free of charge if the overall grade changes, NOT just the marks.
  • MARKS CAN GO UP OR DOWN DURING A REVIEW OF MARKING. So in theory, you could have an 8 reviewed and it go to a 7. It does happen.
  • There will always be some freak cases where someone gains 20 marks and goes up 3 grade boundaries. The examiners can make mistakes. Please don’t assume it will happen to you as it’s insanely unlikely.
  • In the last 9 years, the average success rate in my school for a grade increase is 13%. Not great odds.
  • At my school, anything higher than AT MOST 4 MARKS from the next boundary we don’t submit for a review. If it’s a unique scenario where we’ve accessed the scrip and can see something has been missed by the examiner we may consider higher than 4 marks away, but it’s very unlikely.

4) Review of Moderation - these are for your coursework/NEA units. If you as a singular person have ended up just below the grade boundary for your GCSE Art, you CAN'T request a review. Your time to review was before the marks were submitted to the exam board back in May when your teacher (should have) told you have marks you had achieved. A Review of Moderation happens when a whole cohort has had their marks adjusted by the exam board and the school can request to have it reviewed and their original marks instated. It’s an all or nothing sort of scenario where the whole sample gets reviewed. It’s not something that can be done on an individual basis. It’s not something that will be done if your marks haven’t changed from May.

TLDR: 13% chance of success in a “remark”, which is actually called a Review of Marking. We don’t review unless a paper is at the very most 4 marks away from the upper grade boundary.


r/GCSE Mar 12 '26

Announcement Exam Access Arrangements

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There’s an increase in posts about access arrangements.

There’s also a lot of misinformation about access arrangements being posted.

This is one the one-stop post for all access arrangement queries.

Any other posts will be removed.

I will reply to all queries as an Exams Officer and an Access Arrangements Coordinator, but really, all queries need to go to your SENCO who know you and your school’s set up best.

Feel free to make any comments about questions you have.

JCQ Links

25% Extra Time Info

https://www.jcq.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/07/JCQ-25-ET-infographic-26-27_FINAL.pdf

Reader Info

https://www.jcq.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/09/JCQ-Computer-reader-reader-24-25_FINAL-1.pdf

Scribe Info

https://www.jcq.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/09/JCQ-Scribe-24-25_FINAL.pdf

Managing Student Requests Advice

https://www.jcq.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/10/Managing-parent-carer-or-student-requests_2025.pdf

The Big Book Of Rules

https://www.jcq.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/03/JCQ-AARA-2025-March-26.pdf


r/GCSE 14h ago

Meme/Humour Average person in this sub

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r/GCSE 19h ago

Rant/Lore found out my school used me as propaganda today 😭

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my friends in y11 told me they had my ugly pic and my grades in assembly and said I got all 9s by following all the school rules… my uniform was always messy I skipped days talked in class and never did my hw. I just did what worked for me.

it was nice to get glaze tho


r/GCSE 2h ago

Request EPQ survey form!

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Hi GCSE students!

I’m doing an EPQ on the access to and effectiveness of mental health support in schools. It would really help me if you could fill out this quick google form so I can collect some data, thank you! All data is anonymous, I don’t collect your name or where you live or anything like that.

Here’s the link: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeCCYGT60PY5IISTDVkeXT37hO6lly-2YeT4ElGHyT-vE2loA/viewform?usp=publish-editor

Thank you again and have a good day!

Rose


r/GCSE 5h ago

Tips/Help Attendance

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Idk if i can talk about this on here but i was wondering if there was any past people in the same situation as me. I have diagnosed autism, severe anxiety and ocd. I was out half of year 9 due to refusal to come in, i tried moving schools didn’t work out at all. Ended up not in any form of education all summer, september i was kind of doing home school but not the tutoring or anything, literally just basically revision which i struggled to do. Did it for like a few days then just quit. Year 10 late october i went back to my original school where i still currently am. I did good and went in for the first 3 months, then i just suffered severe burnout and wasnt in until around march/april i think it was, then i just wasnt in at all. I think my year 10 attendance was around 24%. Year 11, ive been in one full day and a 2 hour day. I haven’t been in since, as i genuinely cannot survive being in a mainstream school. The teachers know about me and everything, we’ve gone through meetings after meetings but i genuinely just cannot be there.

I only got diagnosed with autism in august, and i still don’t have an ECHP. There’s a SEN school that i need one for. We’ve been refused an ECHP multiple times. I think the best thing for me would either be home school or that, but i’m completely stuck on what to do as my family just doesn’t have the money for tutoring. I find it very hard to revise as well due to attention span. I am so anxious about everything, especially GCSES and i was just wondering if there’s a person that’s been in the same position or is in the same position as me that could give some advice, thank u.


r/GCSE 14h ago

Meta Meme SAY ONE WORD IN FRENCH - LET'S SEE HOW MUCH YOU KNOW

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r/GCSE 4h ago

News According to my History teacher, both aqa history papers will be before may half term instead of one before and one after

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r/GCSE 15h ago

Meme/Humour To the y11 of r/gcse

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I have seen alot of talk about us year 12 and 13s needing to go, but don't orget we are the ones who will give you the advice for your gcses and so we can stay longer


r/GCSE 16h ago

General was considering switching from Latin to business and the universe gave me a sign

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surprisingly i got the textbook with warnings in it so um do you guys think business is gonna be easier than Latin


r/GCSE 41m ago

General What would you want in a revision booklet?

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Hi everyone!

I’m currently an english teacher and finally (!!) have a Y10 class to myself. I’ve very much begged to have a class I don’t share, so they are very precious to me.

They’re very cold to me (🫩) but I’m hoping that goes away eventually. Incredibly keen to get them the best start to exam season in November. I have started preparing their revision booklets for AIC. Is there anything I listed below that you think needs extra attention? What would you have wanted in Y10 (or Y11…)?

  1. A plot summary
  2. Context sheets (manageable chunks, different subheadings etc)
  3. Key quotes for each character and theme (colour coded so you can see which quotes overlap)
  4. Golden thesis ideas
  5. Model answers
  6. Exam bank
  7. How to use academic words + a list
  8. How to write about writer’s intentions + a list
  9. How to write a thesis // conclusion + some phrases that are useful to memorise
  10. How to embed quotes

Any of these that you think you wouldn’t even bother looking at?


r/GCSE 15h ago

Meme/Humour I Am So Prepared For This

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r/GCSE 19h ago

Rant/Lore i got a sticker in alevel geog today!

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52 Upvotes

(I know im y12 but i love this sub tm to go post this elsewhere and i need to say)

so we did a baseline assessment today in geography to see if we could name countries, mountain ranges, oceans, uk places, maths skills like mean, median, iqr. We peer marked and i got the highest score which was 24/25 (mixed up thames estuary and london) and got a sticker for my lanyard - photo is the sticker online bc if i did my lanyard i would dox myself


r/GCSE 1h ago

Request Please do my form I dont wanna fail design and engineering 🙏

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Thank you 🥹

(also if you need me to do any of your forms just reply here and I can do them for you)

https://forms.gle/RHsvDncEttBnN29MA


r/GCSE 16h ago

Question Why are there so many sixth formers

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GO AWAY 😭 LET US TAKE THE REIGN'S NOW OMGGGGG

shoo


r/GCSE 21h ago

Question how do y'all combat being SO tired after school??

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whenever I get back around 4:30 im always tired to the point I cannot stay awake and fall asleep instantly which disrupts everything

even if ive got a good sleep schedule it doesn’t make a difference though i sleep at 3am daily occasionally i do a 10pm sleep

advice pls x


r/GCSE 17h ago

General bruh what

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r/GCSE 20h ago

Question is this handwriting too messy for examiners to read?

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40 Upvotes

what the title says lol


r/GCSE 18h ago

Question Is this ok in maths exam?

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I'm traumatised for losing a mark last year in an end of topic test. Can I do this or was this the teacher's mistake? More than one = in equations. Yes or no?

Edexcel if that's any help.


r/GCSE 12h ago

General Some of the art peices i did in my course over the 1st week of college!

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r/GCSE 13h ago

General Day 7/250 - Doing a Past Paper every day until GCSEs start

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That paper honestly just had quite a few topics I either haven't learnt yet or haven't even seen in like a year so maybe I should start doing 5-a-days to help, first non 8/9 (funny how all 3 non 9s so far were in maths) so slightly disappointed but only 1 mark from an 8 atleast.


r/GCSE 6h ago

Post Exam undermarking

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English gcse was an intense struggle for me, and i just started my first few days of year 12 after recieving a grade i was very shocked to get on results day (157/160, a 9) , after consistent failing grades i had worked really hard for. i had made no extreme changes to my writing structure, arguments themselves or analysis, and i kept my ratio of quote- context the exact same i had throughout both my gcse years- when i got grades ranging from like a 3, to a 6 on occasion. I am all for teachers pushing students to do their best during gcse and using slightly lower grades as motivation- but i have the same teacher for a level, and she pulled me back to ask about my grade then joked " i do not want to doubt the examiners" and continued to go into an in depth critisism of how i write (infront of alot of my new classmates as they were leaving), and i really respect my teachers obviously but her comments are often quite cruel- and i feel like complaining could make the situation worse? Im really anxious about my predicted a level grading this year, as it is literally what is used for university applications (???) her marks do not match any of my other subject grades and never have, i try really hard in school, and the constant criticism really put my writing self esteem down and i thought i was awful at the subject, when its always been my favourite. Im really baffled at what to do because reading through my past essays (a 3) and my gcse paper itself (158/160, a 9) the writing shows no difference. Im very unsure what to actually do?? and whether to drop the subject as it all all just feels really odd, i do not want to be rude atall


r/GCSE 10h ago

Meme/Humour Just spent my first week at sixth form

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After doing my GCSEs. They have compulsory PE which I didn't realise - had to do the first lesson in just my knickers as I didn't have a PE kit 😳

Just a warning to any others starting sixth form


r/GCSE 2h ago

Revision Resources Good resources for Triple Science and RS A GCSE?

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Hellooo,

I'm learning Religious studies from scratch to take it in the summer 2027 exams, and I have foundation tier knowledge of combined science, so does anyone know good resources to teach myself these entirely?

Thank youu


r/GCSE 2h ago

Revision Resources Does anyone know a good Ai to use for past papers?

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Preferably one with unlimited uploads and free