{"id":8515,"date":"2024-08-22T07:49:19","date_gmt":"2024-08-22T07:49:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/gcse-results-day-2024-how-to-appeal-results-or-resit-exams\/"},"modified":"2024-08-22T07:49:19","modified_gmt":"2024-08-22T07:49:19","slug":"gcse-results-day-2024-how-to-appeal-results-or-resit-exams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/gcse-results-day-2024-how-to-appeal-results-or-resit-exams\/","title":{"rendered":"GCSE results day 2024: How to appeal results or resit exams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/education-48993830\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">Grade boundaries<\/a> show the minimum number of marks you need for each grade. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">They are decided by examiners and published on results day.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Qualifications <b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Wales<\/b>, which oversees Welsh exams, had been prepared to use statistics to set the grade boundaries <a href=\"https:\/\/qualificationswales.org\/news-views\/the-return-to-pre-pandemic-gcse-as-and-a-level-standards\/\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">to prevent marks dropping significantly below 2019 levels,<span class=\"visually-hidden ssrcss-1f39n02-VisuallyHidden e16en2lz0\">, <!-- -->external<\/span><\/a> because of a concern that performance in some subjects had still not recovered fully since the pandemic. This back-up plan has not been needed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In <b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">England<\/b> and <b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Northern Ireland<\/b>, the way boundaries are decided has returned to normal. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Only one change remained in place this year. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Department for Education in <b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">England<\/b> said students in maths, physics, and combined-science exams were allowed to use formulae and equation sheets <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/publications\/ofqual-student-guide-2024\/ofqual-student-guide-2024#:~:text=The%20Department%20for%20Education%20has%20confirmed%20that%202024%20will%20be,not%20be%20available%20after%202024.\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">for the final time.<span class=\"visually-hidden ssrcss-1f39n02-VisuallyHidden e16en2lz0\">, <!-- -->external<\/span><\/a> This will not be allowed in 2025.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/education-53682466\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Grade boundaries show the minimum number of marks you need for each grade. They are decided by examiners and published on results day. Qualifications Wales, which oversees Welsh exams, had been prepared to use statistics to set the grade boundaries to prevent marks dropping significantly below 2019 levels,, external because of a concern that performance [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8516,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[3529,75,1367,2236,4576,2821],"class_list":["post-8515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-top-news","tag-appeal","tag-day","tag-exams","tag-gcse","tag-resit","tag-results"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8515","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8515"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8515\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8517,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8515\/revisions\/8517"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}