how to appeal your centre assessed grades

As the season of submitting grades by schools, colleges and exam centres for the centre assessed grades comes to a head. We look at how to appeal centre assessed grades for private candidates.

Here is a short guide from once you have recieved your centre assessed grades .

 A-level results are published on Tuesday 10 August 2021. Appeals for exam candidates waiting on exam grades for their uni applications will be prioritised.

If you are unhappy and want to appeal;

1. Make sure all of the processes were followed and no errors were made. Sometimes exam boards and schools do get ID and exam scripts mixed up.

Your exam centre will not be assessing whether the teacher’s judgement of your grade was correct - they’ll be looking at the many possible administrative errors.

If the admin is correct and you would like to appeal; The exam centre can submit a formal appeal to the exam board for you. It’s free of charge to make this appeal.

If you want to take your centre assessed grede appeal further

Refer the case to Ofqual’s Exams Procedure Review Service (EPRS).

The EPRS will investigate to see whether exam boards has made a procedural error. If the EPRS does not find a procedural error then the exam board’s decision regarding your appeal will still stand.

Additional steps.

The way in which appeals for centre assessed grades will be considered is still being finalised.

Ofqual’s proposed appeals system

The question will be whether the cntre assessed grade you were given was reasonable or not, and not whether an alternative grade would have also been reasonable.

If your centre assessed grade appeal isn’t successful If you are unhappy with centre assessed grades, you have every right to appeal but it’s a good idea to do that with a back-up plan in mind. Because you might not be successful.

There is an expected that there will be a full series of exams taking place in the autumn of 2021.