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Welcome to the Madani Schools Federation Examination Office pages. You will find information concerning both public exams and internal (non-exam) assessments (NEAs) including Key Dates, Exam Boards and the Student Examination Handbook which outlines rules and expectations for students during exams.

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RESULTS DAY

GCSE Results will be handed to you in person at Madani School on Thursday 22nd August, from 8.30am to 10am. You will need to come through Reception area, and make your way to the Large Dining Hall. Parents or relatives will need to take a short time to sign in.

Post Results Services.

Attached are documents that help you to understand the Post Results Services that I mentioned in my last email.

Service 1 is a clerical check, and is to be used if you think your marks have been calculated incorrectly.

Service 2 Review of Marking is the most common request, designed to ensure that the mark scheme has been applied correctly.

Fees will be payable by you.

Otherwise, Access to Scripts is a free service: as long as you squiggle your signature when you collect your results envelope from the Large Dining Hall desk, we can access your scripts and get them sent to you at your request or the teacher's request. If you don't come in to collect, you will have to make the request by email, stating which exam scripts you'd like to access. These will be emailed to you as PDF files.

The one strange detail is this: IF you request a Review of Results Service 2 review of marking from EDEXCEL, you will NOT then be able to make a FREE Access to Scripts request AFTER that. They will charge £13.80 per component paper. See the FEES section below.

Review of Results (Appeals) explained in brief:

Appeals

If you believe that there has been an error with any of your grades, you will need to follow the JCQ Appeal procedure. In order to process the necessary appeal, you will need to complete the requests for appeals document:

Post-results services: request, consent and payment form by Friday 20th September.

There are five main grounds for appeal, as dictated by the Joint Council for Qualifications (JCQ). They are:

● You think we have made an administrative error: an example of this would be putting the wrong information into a spreadsheet.

● You think we have made a procedural error: this means we haven’t properly followed our own process, as approved by the exam board. An example of this would be where you’ve been told you should have received extra time for assessments but this wasn’t given in a certain subject.

● You think the academic judgement on the selection of evidence was unreasonable: you think the evidence used to grade you was not reasonable.

● You think the academic judgement on the grade you were given was unreasonable.

‘Unreasonable’ is a technical term in this context and means that no educational professional acting reasonably could have selected the same evidence or come up with the same grade.

Should you consider applying for an appeal, please note that appeals are not a guarantee of a change of GCSE grades and can result in grades going down on closer inspection of the examination evidence.

FEES –

There are also fees that you would need to pay

AQA

Clerical re-check £9.05 per paper component

Review of Marking £42 per paper

OCR

Clerical re-check £10.75 per paper component

Review of Marking £61.50 per paper component

Edexcel/Pearson

Clerical re-check £13.10 per paper component

Review of Marking £53.70 per paper component

WJEC

Clerical re-check £11.00 per paper component

Review of Marking £40.00 per paper component

If you decide to make an appeals request, you must complete the paperwork (RoR and Consent Sheet) in full before informing me (the Exams Officer) directly via the email: results@madani.leicester.sch.uk

I will check that you have at least glanced at the ‘JCQ Post Results Services’ document and the JCQ Infographic before appealing. If you decide to go ahead with your appeal, all communication will be via email so please make sure that you are regularly checking your emails.

Payments for Reviews of Results and Appeals will be by MCAS. You won’t be able to make an RoR Appeal without payment in advance.

Any requests received after Friday 20th September cannot be processed.

ATTACHED DOCUMENTS

The documents below are very important. Download , complete and send them to the Exams Officer results@madani.leicester.sch.uk if you wish to go ahead with a post results service.

1. JCQ Post Results Service Document – gives you a general overview of all service.

2. JCQ infographic – gives you an overview of your choices in picture form

3. Review of Results and Consent Sheet –

When considering whether to make a Review of Marking (Service 2) request with any of the exam awarding bodies, please kindly note that all fees are on a 'per paper/ component basis'.

For example, if you want to request a Review of Marking for AQA maths, the total qualification fee is £126 (£42 per paper)

Similarly, the fee for Edexcel Pearson English Language, if you wish to request a Review of Marking for both papers, is £107.40 and not just £53.70

Access to Scripts is a service that is FREE OF CHARGE for all awarding bodies, but there IS A DEADLINE of 5th SEPTEMBER for candidates requiring ‘Priority’ copies of scripts.

Please always complete the request document in full: you can use as many copies as you need to in order to make things clear. Please also read the information on providing evidence of payment, so that we can provide you with the correct receipts.

Payment details for any Review of Results must be completed by 20th September at the latest.

If you cannot attend School between 8.30 and 10am, arrangements can be made to email your results sometime on Thursday. Your teachers and I are hopeful that you will come in to School to collect in person. You are NOT expected to come in uniform!

Feel free to ask the Exams Officer any questions - it's better if you email him on Monday or Tuesday w/c 19th August, to give time for him to answer before the busy days of Weds, Thurs, Friday.

Jazakallah khair,.

Mustafa Abid Russell

Data and Examinations Officer

Madani Schools’ Federation

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