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Leaving Cert appeal

  • 02-09-2018 10:59pm
    #1
    DavidAdam
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 69 ✭✭


    If I get my leaving cert papers rechecked and I am down graded how does that affect the offer I got from college?. If I fall below the points on my course will they withdraw the offer?


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  • #2
    Bananaleaf
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,921 ✭✭✭Bananaleaf


    DavidAdam wrote: »
    If I get my leaving cert papers rechecked and I am down graded how does that affect the offer I got from college?. If I fall below the points on my course will they withdraw the offer?

    View your script.

    Work out what percentage you got. With the new grading system, it should be fairly obvious whether you have a chance at being upgraded or whether you run the risk of being downgraded (I've never known a student to be downgraded in 10 years of teaching and watching students appeal. They tend to either be upgraded or stay the same.)

    E.g. A H2 is now 80-89%

    If it happens that you work out your percentage and you sit at 85% it's not likely that you will go up or down enough on a recheck for your grade to change.

    If you are 87%, if your grade was to change, it would have more of a chance of going up than down. Worst case - you stay the same, best case - you're upgraded.

    If you're at 82%, best case - you remain the same, worst case - you're downgraded.

    I don't know if college offers are withdrawn if you are downgraded, but I'm guessing the suggestion of that is giving the system more credit than they deserve. I don'tthink they are that organised.

    Also, if you've got the course you want, 'why appeal at all?' is a question to consider. Spend the money on something nice instead.


  • #3
    Caranica
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,179 ✭✭✭✭Caranica


    Last year I knew someone who was downgraded three grades in a recheck of English. Consider the risk carefully


  • #4
    danm14
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 218 ✭✭danm14


    DavidAdam wrote: »
    If I get my leaving cert papers rechecked and I am down graded how does that affect the offer I got from college?. If I fall below the points on my course will they withdraw the offer?

    No, I don't believe so. The appeal results don't come out until mid-October by which time you'd have already accepted the offer, registered as a student and attended several weeks of college.

    I really wouldn't worry about being downgraded. The previous 5 years statistics are below. You have less than a 1 in 500 chance of being downgraded. For comparison, other things with a similar chance include being born with an extra finger or toe, and dying from a food-borne illness.

    Just be sure not to appeal a paper with an obvious mistake that has gone in your favour. I'd say the majority of if not all downgrades are blindingly obvious (adding the marks for one question twice, 10+10=30, etc) mistakes on papers that the student appealed without viewing.

    Statistics:
    2017: 1,425 results upgraded, 4 downgraded.
    2016: 1,698 results upgraded, 1 downgraded.
    2015: 1,822 results upgraded, 5 downgraded.
    2014: 1,673 results upgraded, 3 downgraded.
    2013: 1,637 results upgraded, 3 downgraded.


  • #5
    danm14
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 218 ✭✭danm14


    Caranica wrote: »
    Last year I knew someone who was downgraded three grades in a recheck of English. Consider the risk carefully

    Three grades seems unlikely, are you sure it wasn't 3% or 3 marks?

    To be one of only 4 people who were downgraded, and to be downgraded between 20% and 30% would be unbelievably unlucky.


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