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Review and priority review of marking

Find out how you can request a review or priority review of marking. This includes how to make a request, fees and deadlines.

There is no grade protection for review of marking.

This means that students’ marks and subject grades may be lowered, confirmed or raised as a result. You must seek students’ consent before submitting a request.

Mark and grade changes for completed reviews submitted in error will remain.

Requests submitted in error will not have any released outcomes reversed, as we are committed to correcting any issues identified during the post results process to ensure fairness for all candidates.

While an appeal cannot consider whether a review was submitted in error, essential information on valid reasons for appealing the outcome of a review can be found on our appeals page.

What to expect

If you request a review or priority review of marking:

it includes a clerical re-check
you’ll receive a copy of the reviewed script as part of this service
a second examiner will review the paper/recording again to identify genuine marking errors or unreasonable marking
we’ll make sure all the marks are counted
a grade can go down as well as up.

You can request these services for individual units or components.

Priority review of marking

This is a faster service for students whose place at a university, or other higher education institution, depends on the outcome.

It’s only available for:

AS and A-level (including new AS specifications)
AQA Certificate Level 3
AQA Certificate Level 3 Applied General qualifications.

Fees

In the table below, you'll find the fees for each review of marking service.

What we charge will depend on the type of qualification and the outcome of the review.

Type of qualification	Post-results service	Fee
GCSE, AQA Certificates (except Level 3), ELC, FCSE and Functional Skills	Review of marking	£43.50 per unit/component
AS, A-level, AQA Certificate Level 3 and AQA Certificate Level 3 Applied General qualifications	Review of marking	£50.40 per unit/component
AS, A-level, AQA Certificate Level 3 and AQA Certificate Level 3 Applied General qualifications	Priority review of marking (university place pending)	£59.90 per unit/component

Linear qualifications

When you submit components for review, please be aware that the timing of the requests will affect the fee charged.

If the subject grade changes, we do not charge for any components that:

are requested together (at the same time)
are requested separately but the linked components are still ‘In progress’ on Centre Services.

Review of moderation is a distinct and independent service and will be billed separately. The outcome of the review of marking will not impact the review of moderation charges or results.

If you submit a component after a review of a linked component has been completed, you will be charged separately for each component. The fee for each component will depend on whether it does or does not change the overall subject grade.

Here are some examples to help explain the process:

Example	Outcome of the review	What you will be charged for
You submit Paper 1 and Paper 2 together, at the same time.	Paper 1 has an outcome that does not result in a grade change, but the outcome of Paper 2 does directly result in a grade change.	You will not be charged for either review.
You submit Paper 1. Before the outcome is completed, you submit a review for Paper 2.	Paper 1 has an outcome that does not result in a grade change, but the outcome of Paper 2 does directly result in a grade change.	You will not be charged for either review.
You submit Paper 1. After the outcome is completed, you then submit a review for Paper 2.	Paper 1 has an outcome that does not result in a grade change, but the outcome of Paper 2 does directly result in a grade change.	You will be charged for Paper 1, as that had an outcome with no grade change. You will not be charged for Paper 2, as that had an outcome directly resulting in a grade change.

Modular qualifications

If the overall award grade changes, we do not charge for the review or any of the units.

If the overall award grade does not change – or the student does not combine the marks or other units they have sat in a previous exam series (aggregate):

we do not charge if a unit grade changes as a result of a review
if two units are reviewed, and only one unit grade changes, we will charge for the unit where the grade did not change.

How to make a request

You can only request a review of marking once for a paper.

To make a request, you'll need to:

Fill in the student written consent form from JCQ’s post-results services page and keep it for six months after the outcome of the enquiry or subsequent appeal.
Log in to Centre Services and select ‘Post-exams’ and ‘Post-results services’.
Select ‘Review of marking’ either ‘Request by candidate’ or ‘Request by component’ and then select the service ‘Non priority (Plus reviewed script)’ or ‘Priority (Plus reviewed script)’.
You’ll receive a copy of the reviewed script as part of the review or priority review of marking service.

Reviews of marking for exams with multiple components

Some question papers are split into multiple components with individual answer booklets. These will have a different entry code based on the combination of question papers the candidate was entered for (for example: to request reviews for all components on 8061A, a request could be made on 8061/1, 8061/2, or 8061/5). Our Entry Codes booklet contains details on where this is the case and what these entry codes are.

When requesting a review of marking for these papers, you'll only be able to select one component but all components will be included in the request automatically.

Entry codes 2025/26 – lists all entry codes, information and restrictions
Entry codes 2025/26 – lists all entry codes, information and restrictions
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Deadlines

Priority reviews of marking are not available in the November, January or March exam series.

Exam series	Qualification	Priority review: request deadline
June 2026	A-level Applied General Level Three AS Level	20 August 2026

Reviews of marking request deadline below

Exam series	Qualification	Review: request deadline
June 2026	A-level Applied General Level Three ELC Level Three FCSE GCSE Level One Level Two Project	24 September 2026

How long it takes

up to 20 calendar days for a review of marking
up to 15 calendar days for a priority review of marking.

What happens next

We’ll email your school/college’s exams officer when your review outcome is available on Centre Services.

To comply with the new Ofqual requirements, if there has been a mark change on one or more of the questions on a reviewed paper, the reasons for review of marking decisions can be found on the copy of reviewed script. These can be accessed on the ‘View or cancel requests’ screen on Centre Services.

Keeping scripts and outcomes

Outcomes (decisions) from post-results services and copies of reviewed scripts will be kept for two years on Centre Services from the date they were provided. These should be downloaded if records are needed for longer than this.