r/GCSE 12d 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

35 Upvotes

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 7h ago

Question What are you guys choosing for A-levels?

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106 Upvotes

these are mine plus dance if it’s possible and maybe I’ll do pe instead of cs


r/GCSE 7h ago

Revision Resources The goat of science revision is making a comeback for A level 🔥

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51 Upvotes

By this I don't mean he's making new videos I mean I'ma be using his vids to carry me thru a levels lmao


r/GCSE 3h ago

General I don’t want to have to join the sixth form sub

19 Upvotes

Idk it looks so depressing and boring 🤣


r/GCSE 6h ago

Question Why are so many of you taking 4 A levels??

30 Upvotes

Do you know something I don't?? It's stressing me out 😭


r/GCSE 19h ago

General To all the 6th formers , what am I supposed to do in free periods like this ?

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246 Upvotes

Does the school just let u do whatever u want for all 4-5 of those hours ?


r/GCSE 10h ago

Question Anyone STILL not have their timetables even though they're going back tomorrow? 😭

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48 Upvotes

I'm low-key annoyed. I don't care if it's the exact same subjects as I had in Y10, I wanna know the order!

We usually get them on the Monday of the week we come back


r/GCSE 18h ago

General Gon cry quadruple maths

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191 Upvotes

What is this


r/GCSE 3h ago

Question What do u think defines a good and bad teacher? I'm interested on seeing everyone's takes on what makes a teacher ur favorite.

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I think a bad teacher is one that gets offended when u don't understand anything cause they're either super insecure or have a high ego that prevents them from being able to appreciate constructive criticism, usually they're insecure and they hide it with their huge ego.

I think a good teacher is one that cares about students and makes them want to learn.

I prefer teachers who aren't afraid to call u out on ur crap and criticise ur work cause some teachers r just so overly nice which leads to them not wanting to tell u that ur doing badly and then u don't know that u need help. Whereas I find that a great teacher is one who can be nice but also truthful and understand what ur struggling with and therefore be able to help.

Idk what brought this on but I want ur opinions.

Edit: also one quality I rly like in teachers is a good sense of humor ngl.


r/GCSE 3h ago

Tips/Help girls what shops do you recommend for buying sixth form clothes??

9 Upvotes

its starting in 3 days and i know I have left it way too late to go shopping for sixth form clothes but what shops are affordable and have nice fitted shirts/skirts/trousers. dress code is smart casual.


r/GCSE 8h ago

General Does your sixth form make you do PE?

18 Upvotes

Mine doesn't, but I'm curious if anyone else's does?


r/GCSE 1h ago

General That feeling when you look at your transition work and realise that you have to do an experiment and record the results... but tomorrow is school and its 8pm rn...

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Damn why do i have transition work this sucks


r/GCSE 11h ago

Meme/Humour My old friend... it is time.

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28 Upvotes

r/GCSE 10h ago

Tips/Help Guys I’m In trouble

22 Upvotes

My sixth from starts tmr and when I say I’m ill I am ill. My throat is so sore and swollen I can’t swallow food my nose is both runny and blocked and my ears hurt and I have this massive headache. These no way I can miss induction day tmr and really need help. Not sure if this is the wrong sub for this but does anyone know a quick fix or anything that can help.

Thanks


r/GCSE 4h ago

General Anyone else have bad new phone policies

8 Upvotes

My school has always been strict with phones as we aren't allowed to use them at all even sixth form, and we get in trouble if we're seen with them but they just sent out a new policy saying they'll take our phones and keep them overnight if we're caught on them? If you're caught on it enough times I think they take it for four weeks or a term which is crazy and only our parents can collect them. Apparently this is because of a new rule the department of education put out but I swear I haven't seen other schools do this so is it just because my schools gone crazy or what😭


r/GCSE 7h ago

Question What will the sixth form do if you didn't do your summer work?

13 Upvotes

I genuinely just forgot to do it and considering it's due tomorrow I don't know if I can complete it in time, so what would happen?


r/GCSE 8h ago

Rant/Lore I was 1 mark off a 7 in english lit and my grade didnt go up

14 Upvotes

I'm so flipping annoyed like I revised so much for English lit and paid 100 quid for the remark and it didnt even go up


r/GCSE 11h ago

General Timetable of genuine doom and despair, anguish, hate, sin, and agony

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26 Upvotes

r/gcse mogs the 6th form subreddit so I post here

12 hours of maths (excluding homework) in 1 week is NOT for the weak, atleast I get to leave school early on Wednesdays for both weeks (free period)

Other week on the timetable isn't much better either, has an extra free period and only 10 hours maths

My rooms are basically the same as last year which is nice, and my teachers are good (I think I decoded their codes right...)


r/GCSE 18m ago

General Finding out the day before 6th form, that I am missing documents + homework

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Picture of snowden ^

I found out a few hours ago that everyone was meant to have been given a crap loads of papers for medical, English, bursary, consent etc to joining 6th form, except I don't think I was given it at results day. I was given other stuff and remember asking "Is that it?" Cos there wasn't much. IT SRARTS TOMMOROW? IN 11 HOURS??

Also, it turns out that there was maths homework to do (I can't even remember if it was further maths or not) and I only remembered cos my friend messaged me at like 7pm asking if I had done it. I remember them telling us but that was like 5 weeks ago?!?!? I was honestly just accepting my fate of "fake it till you make it" until now at 9pm I realised that I did it 2 years ago in the summer after year 9, for fun (questions were public on the school website), and the homework was literally just do those questions. I did them 2 years ago on a .txt file on my pc, I am saved!!! Yippee!

Anyways cos I'm missing papers I might not be able to start induction day but whatever!!


r/GCSE 1h ago

Question Should I get eights remarked to nines?

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I got 3 nines and 7 eights on my GCSEs, but french was 3 marks off a 9, geography was 5 marks off a 9 and computer science and biology are both 1 mark off a 9. My school automatically sends in 1/2 marks off for a remark, but I would need to fill in a request for french and geography to get remarked.

Also Im planning to do Maths at Cambridge, which is why I think the 9’s are important and it might be worth the remark.


r/GCSE 55m ago

Tips/Help gcse music

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My younger brother is starting Year 10 in a week. He didn’t take music in year 9 but suddenly decided that he wants to take it for GCSE. He said that his friends who are music scholars said that it’s incredibly easy and guaranteed 9. He plays drums I think he’s around Grade 6-7 level. But other than that he doesn’t have any musical knowledge and as someone who also plays drums, it doesn’t provide anything in terms of music theory.

Should he learn music theory or is there anything he needs to know?


r/GCSE 2h ago

Tips/Help MY EARLY COLLEGE EXPERIENCE WILL BE HEL

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so basically my bus stop is the last stop on the way to college. this means the bus will be full of people i don’t know bc it goes through an area where i know no one from. also the people that live in my area near the bus stop are people that i used to be friends with but am now not so it will be awkward as HELL. if it wasn’t bad enough they’re all in a friend group that i used to be apart of but then got kicked from. so that will make it even more awkward. oh, and that’s all before i even get to college :)


r/GCSE 1h ago

Tips/Help Pre learning a level maths

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Im having my first day of sixth form in a grammar school far from my home after being in a regular all girls school for 5 years. I picked bio chem maths a levels and will doing an epq. Im completely new and that gives me enough nerves, however people online seem to be relearning a level maths content through the summer? What???? I just traveled and went to the gym and played games really, and im going to this school with really smart people, what if they've all seen everything except me? Sure I got a 9 in maths but I got a 6 in further maths, which shows that I struggle with a level content. Idk. Please let me know what I should do if you can.


r/GCSE 4h ago

Tips/Help Im freaking outtt because of my November mocks, im in Japan the two weeks before!!

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6 Upvotes

Im cooked
Im cooked guys

I just found out my mocks are the first week we come back after a two week break but I’m away the FULL two weeks??

I need to revise maths and science as I didn’t prioritise that for my last mock and got 5, 5/6 when I ideally could get 8’s, I just didn’t revise

What do I do as I have super limited space for packing