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Asking VCAA to re-mark exams?
« on: December 12, 2019, 09:29:00 am »
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How do you ask VCAA to double check your exam papers again in case they made a mistake?

Not too happy with one of my subject scores and honestly think i deserved higher :/
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Re: Asking VCAA to re-mark exams?
« Reply #1 on: December 12, 2019, 09:32:12 am »
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It is quite difficult.
You have to get a statement of marks, ask to inspect your exam (with your teacher present - and you only get 15min or so), and show that they've made an error in their marking. And you won't have any marking written on your exam.
If you think there was a mistake, get a statement of marks (the form will come with your mailed results) but unless there's a massive issue it's unlikely that you'll be successful at getting it remarked (not saying this to try and stop you doing it, just don't get your hopes up).
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Re: Asking VCAA to re-mark exams?
« Reply #2 on: December 12, 2019, 09:34:51 am »
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It is quite difficult.
You have to get a statement of marks, ask to inspect your exam (with your teacher present - and you only get 15min or so), and show that they've made an error in their marking. And you won't have any marking written on your exam.
If you think there was a mistake, get a statement of marks (the form will come with your mailed results) but unless there's a massive issue it's unlikely that you'll be successful at getting it remarked (not saying this to try and stop you doing it, just don't get your hopes up).

Do you really have to go through that entire process?
Read a post last year about this on the forums https://atarnotes.com/forum/index.php?topic=182775.0
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Re: Asking VCAA to re-mark exams?
« Reply #3 on: December 12, 2019, 09:40:09 am »
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Do you really have to go through that entire process?
Read a post last year about this on the forums https://atarnotes.com/forum/index.php?topic=182775.0
Yep. It's quite frustrating - you'll notice in all of the examples in collines post that the difference is large. When you have an error like that (e.g. for colline they got a 0 for something by accident) they'll remark it, but if you get your statement of marks and don't have any very obvious errors like that (e.g. 0s for questions that you know you didn't get 0s on) and it's just things like getting 2/3 for a question you think you should get 3/3 for it'll be a lot harder to challenge.
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Re: Asking VCAA to re-mark exams?
« Reply #4 on: December 12, 2019, 09:43:35 am »
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Yep. It's quite frustrating - you'll notice in all of the examples in collines post that the difference is large. When you have an error like that (e.g. for colline they got a 0 for something by accident) they'll remark it, but if you get your statement of marks and don't have any very obvious errors like that (e.g. 0s for questions that you know you didn't get 0s on) and it's just things like getting 2/3 for a question you think you should get 3/3 for it'll be a lot harder to challenge.

Fair enough! Won't bother then
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Re: Asking VCAA to re-mark exams?
« Reply #5 on: December 12, 2019, 09:59:26 am »
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Which subject was it? If it is something like maths where you have checked your scores and you got something completely different than what you expected it might be ok to check. Whilst something like English/Biology is a bit more open to the interpretation of the assessor.

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Re: Asking VCAA to re-mark exams?
« Reply #6 on: December 12, 2019, 10:14:27 am »
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Which subject was it? If it is something like maths where you have checked your scores and you got something completely different than what you expected it might be ok to check. Whilst something like English/Biology is a bit more open to the interpretation of the assessor.

Chemistry. Although it wasn’t way off what I thought, it was still a bit below.
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Re: Asking VCAA to re-mark exams?
« Reply #7 on: December 12, 2019, 10:16:44 am »
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^If it's still bothering you when you get your mailed results, then getting a statement of marks might be a good idea for your peace of mind, but unless there's an obvious issue on that, it's unlikely to be worth taking it any further.
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Re: Asking VCAA to re-mark exams?
« Reply #8 on: December 12, 2019, 10:21:56 am »
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Chemistry. Although it wasn’t way off what I thought, it was still a bit below.
if you get the statement of marks it will show how you score on each question - if you think there is no difference you could stop the process there. Also, it is good to know that assessors don't always agree on marking. So for a 3 mark question, it is possible for once assessor to give you 3 marks and another to give you 2 marks resulting in 5/6 for a question. Over a whole exam that could really add up. (EDIT: beaten by PF)

if you are in year 12 and have the ATAR for your course though there is not much reason to do it imo