Edexcel International GCSE

Before deciding to request a review of marking you should speak to your teacher. They may have additional information on how you performed during your assessment and be able to provide you with guidance.

The majority of review of marking requests do not result in a change to a grade, simply because the review of marking has shown that the original grade was accurate. However, it is possible that your grade could go up, go down or stay the same.

If your grade goes down, you cannot reject the review of marking and go back to the original grade. The only way to improve your grade would be to resit the exam.

The marking of your question paper will be reviewed by a senior examiner, who will check your answers against the mark scheme. This senior examiner won’t have marked your paper before. Once the marking of your paper has been reviewed, we'll do a clerical check to make sure that:

• everything you've written has been marked
• all of the marks have been added up to give the correct total mark
• we’ve entered your total mark correctly on our systems
• any special consideration has been taken into account (if it was applied for before the exam).

You can request that we only perform the clerical check. This will cost less than having a full review of marking.

We don't refund students or parents directly but you may be able to request a refund from your school or college if the outcome of your review of marking results in a change in your overall grade.

The refund policy for marking reviews is agreed jointly by the major UK awarding organisations.

If you're still not satisfied with the outcome of your review of marking, you can ask your centre to appeal on your behalf. Appeals do not normally involve reviewing your work again, but this will happen if there is evidence that the correct procedure wasn’t followed during the original review of marking.

Your centre has 30 calendar days after receiving the outcome of your review of marking to appeal. We can't process appeal requests after this deadline.

Find out more about appeals

Yes. Although private candidates often find it easier to speak to their school or college about their results, they can contact Pearson directly to request post-results services like a review of marking or to request a marked copy of their exam paper.

If a private candidate is unhappy with the outcome of a review of marking, they can also appeal our decision without going through their exam centre.

Contact our Student Services team

Your teacher marks all project work, coursework and controlled assessment. It is then moderated by us. This means that we request a sample of your teacher’s marked work and check that we agree with their assessment.

Moderation is necessary to make sure that all students have their coursework assessed according to the same standards. Most of the time, we will approve and accept your teacher’s marks unchanged. However, sometimes marks are reduced or raised if we judge that your teacher’s marking has been too lenient or too harsh.

If you think that the mark on your results slip is not the mark your teacher gave you, please check with your teacher to see what happened to marks after moderation. If we did not adjust your mark, talk to your teacher or exams officer and they’ll get in touch with us. If we did adjust your mark, your teacher will need to decide if they want to send back all of the work from your school or college for remoderation.

We can't review the moderation of an individual piece of coursework or any work where we didn't change your teacher's original mark. We can only review the moderation if we changed the marks given by your teacher, but it's up to your school to decide whether it requests this.

Your school or college should base its decision on what is best for the majority of students. If your school has decided not to submit coursework for review of moderation, you will need to discuss this directly with them, as we can’t overturn their decision.

When we receive a request for a review of moderation, we will review the moderation of the coursework of all students originally entered at your school or college for a second time. This means that we will request the same sample of marking and the moderation of the work will be reviewed by a senior moderator.

Any changes we make to grades during the review of moderation may affect all students who submitted work.

The rules around marking, moderation and review of moderation of coursework and controlled assessments are agreed jointly by the major UK awarding organisations. They are in place to ensure that all students are treated equally, regardless of the awarding organisation used for their subject.