Appeals Process 2020
August 21, 2020
Results 2020: What you need to know about this year’s appeals and Autumn resits
Ofqual has confirmed today its appeals and resits process:
The appeal routes open are now just for administrative errors. Schools can only appeal where there has been an administrative error with the CAG or rank order information.
Administrative errors might include, for example, mixing up two students with similar names, or accidentally copying across the wrong data. But importantly it does not relate to the professional judgements of centres in assigning CAGs.
Key guidance for students:
- Students cannot challenge their school or college under the appeals process on the centre assessment grades it submitted or their rank order positions.
- Students cannot appeal because their mock result was higher than the grade they were awarded.
- Students can ask their school college to check whether it made an administrative error when submitting information to an exam board, and to ask the exam board to correct any mistakes in the information it provided.
- A school or college can appeal to an exam board on a student’s behalf if it believes the exam board made a mistake when it communicated their grades.
- The deadline for appeals is 17 September.
- If a student believes they could achieve a higher grade they may sit the exam in the autumn series but this grade would stand.
If a student is concerned that any reasonable adjustments were not taken into account when their school determined their CAG, they should contact us via the following email: examsofficer@staca.co.uk
