Increase in appeals opposite A-level formula

By Graeme Paton, Education Editor 240PM GMT twenty-four March 2010

More than 14,157 requests were done for an puncture hearing of hearing writings in Aug an enlarge of some-more than eight per cent in twelve months.

Students can ask for writings are re-marked as a "priority" if they fright blank out on university places as a outcome of reduce than approaching grades.

Pushy relatives "fuelling climb in hearing appeals" Exam grades "should be scrapped" Students utilizing "sob stories" for additional outlines Pupils utilizing "excuses" for additional hearing outlines "Special consideration" for exams the manners 4,000 pupils held intrigue in exams

The climb came among increasing direct for university places last summer.

Almost 640,000 people practical for class courses in 2009 up by roughly 9 per cent fuelled by grown up students returning to preparation in the recession.

The series of courses accessible by clearing plummeted by two-thirds at a little universities since of increasing demand, raising the stakes for students who only longed for out on likely grades.

Competition is approaching to be some-more extreme this year after applications soared by roughly a entertain in 2010.

Figures from Ofqual, the exams regulator, show that the series of "high priority" requests for re-marks that are ostensible to be carried out inside of eighteen days increasing from 12,998 in 2008 to 14,157 last summer.

Almost one-in-10 of these writings were subsequently noted up.

A serve 53,524 non-priority requests were made, ensuing in around one-in-eight writings being since a improved grade.

In a serve disclosure, delegate schools in England, Wales and Northern Ireland submitted 94,817 GCSE grades for re-marking - up from 85,981 in 2008.

Kathleen Tattersall, Ofqual chairman, pronounced "These total yield useful report per the hearing season. As regulator it is the purpose to safeguard that satisfactory systems are in place and that these are followed correctly."

The avowal follows a climb in the series of pupils who had had formula in GCSEs and A-levels increased by up to five per cent after creation pleas for special care last year.

Almost 360,000 teenagers used excuses such as headaches, grain fever and the genocide of a house pet to get additional outlines in exams, according to figures.