How to appeal GCSE 2024 result grades or get exams remarked

Hundreds of thousands of students across the country opened up their GCSE results on Thursday morning. After five years of hard work at secondary school teenagers discovered how they did in subjects including maths, sciences and foreign languages.

However, there are fears this year that students face more competition to get a sixth-form place this year. Capacity issues in some areas of the country amid rising demand could mean some colleges will not have space to take on students, the chief executive of the Association of Colleges (AoC) has warned.

Bill Watkin, chief executive of the Sixth Form Colleges Association (SFCA), said: “It’s likely that there’ll be more competition to get a sixth form place.

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“There is still going to be pressure on places because the number of new places created is less than the number of additional young people working their way through the system at the moment.”

So if you feel you did not get the results your believed you would and are worried it could impact your plans then you can appeal your results.

The UK exam boards offer post-results services, including clerical rechecks to look for any administrative errors, as well as reviews of the marking by component.

Students in England can have their exams reviewed by the exam boards AQA, OCR and Edexcel, depending on the board that they sat their exam with. Students in Scotland can apply to have their results reviewed by the Scottish Qualifications Authority while pupils in Wales can have theirs reviewed by the WJEC. Northern Irish students apply for a review by the CEA.

During the process the exam board will re-check your results, and