Post-Results Services
Your guide to getting exam results 2022
If you think your results are wrong...
The review and appeals process is carried out by exam boards – there are different options, and different costs. All boards must follow the JCQ guidance.
- The college must contact the boards on your behalf.
- All requests must be emailed to exams@longroad.ac.uk
- You must pay the fees via the Exams Shop before we will submit your request.
Information on the different types of post-results services available can be found below.
Clerical check, reviews and appeals
- Click here to download Form A – Clerical re-check, reviews of marking and appeals
- This can be a priority or non-priority request.
- Fees apply for each service and differ for each exam board. (approx. £10 for a script, £40- £60 for reviews and checks, depending on priority)
- There is no option to re-mark scripts and get a ‘second opinion’
Service 1: Clerical Check
- Makes sure no pages were missed by the marker, and that marks were added up correctly and recorded properly.
- Request Deadline: 8th February 2023 (college deadline)
Service 2: Review of Marking
- This is a post-results review of the original marking to ensure that the mark scheme has been applied correctly. Grades can stay the same, or go up, or go down.
- A marking error can occur because of:
- an administrative error;
- a failure to apply the mark scheme where a task has only a ‘right’ or ‘wrong’ answer;
- an unreasonable exercise of academic judgement.
- Reviewers will not re-mark the script. They will only act to correct any errors identified in the original marking.
Deadlines:- BTEC Nationals Level 3 Review of Marking £42.40 deadline 6th April 2023
- BTEC Nationals Level 3 Priority Review of Marking deadline 3rd April 2023
- Cambridge Technicals Priority access to scripts £14.75 deadline 24th March 2023
- Cambridge Technicals access to scripts £14 deadline 6th April 2023
- Cambridge Technicals Review of marking 6th April 2023.
Appeals and Complaints
- An appeal can only be made AFTER a Review of Marking and can only be made by the Principal directly to the awarding organisation (Exam Board). The college would have to clearly state the grounds for appeal.
- If you are still unhappy following a Review of Marking, please contact exams@longroad.ac.uk and we will contact you to assess if we would support a further appeal.
- If there are other concerns relating to the exams that you are unhappy about, please contact the Vice Principal, Steve Dann at sdann@longroad.ac.uk in the first instance.
- The formal complaints' policy can be found on the college website.
Access to exam scripts (ATS)
- Click here to download Form B – Access to Scripts
- Get your papers back from the exam board.
- The college may want to see some student scripts if we think there is a problem with marking – usually if a subject’s results are much worse than we expected. We will get your consent to do this.
- We may decide to ask for a Review of Results for all candidates in a subject.
- A Review of Results can cause grades to be moved up or down.
- We may want to see some scripts for training purposes – to see where the gaps in knowledge were in order to put more time into those sections of the course for new students.
- In both these cases, we will ask students for permission to use the scripts and get consent.
