View Full Version : What happens to your score if you appeal an exam question?
rudestuff
5th Sep 2015, 20:04
Does anyone know what actually happens if you appeal a question in an ATPL exam? Let's say you have a test of 20 questions. There are two correct answers to a question, so you appeal the question in the comments box. What happens if they accept your appeal?
Do they award you a point regardless?
Do they scrub the question and mark you out of 19?
What happens if you appeal and got it 'Correct' anyway (or 'Wrong') could it hurt you?
...and what happens to everyone else who had the same question?
The only way to get a result changed , is to go through the re mark procedure and pay.
If it goes your way, they will give you the mark , but remove the question from the exam bank or re write the question.
If it doesn't go your way, your down the fee thats all.
Sometime schools inform the CAA and get marks amended, it happened to me , that another school questioned the exam question and my mark was amended for free.
If one question gets awarded, then everyone gets the benefit. Most often questions are judged to be valid. If there are two potentially correct answers, though - that's good grounds for a query.
Phil
OhNoCB
6th Sep 2015, 10:34
I submitted a few appeals when doing my exams. I remember one from flight planning that was asking about contingency fuel for a flight and basically the only answer that matched was the 5% answer, despite 5 minutes holding being greater, which there was no answer for. I selected the 5% answer and appealed it whereas a friend doing the same exam at the same time chose the one closest to 5 mins holding. I appealed it, he didn't. Our course provider told us after the results that the CAA had said no appeals had gone through successfully, despite that we both got 100%.
rudestuff
6th Sep 2015, 11:19
I thought that if you typed in the comments box it would automatically get looked at by a human being and that constituted an appeal to the question?
I'm aware of paying for a re-mark, but I thought that was a different thing.
If that's not the case, why have the comment option? It would be unrealistic to appeal an individual question AFTER the exam - that would involve remembering the exact wording and all four answers (and of course we wouldn't be allowed to write anything down would we?)
OhNoCB
6th Sep 2015, 11:29
I maybe wasn't clear with what I said. This was back when the exams were written on paper not electronic. When I said no appeals had gone through successfully what I meant was that none had been 'granted' - which obviously mustn't have been true in my case.
I was told by the exam supervisor , writing in the comments box on the question or typing in the comments box at the end, no one reads it, there will thousands of comments per day.
The only way is to apply for a remark or get your ATO to email exams at the CAA, but it better coming from the candidate (with the remark fee)
lasseb
10th Sep 2015, 07:22
In the "old" JAR days, it was perfectly legal to have a question with 2 correct answers. I'm not sure its the same in EASA, but the question guidance material for JAR clearly stated that there could be more than one correct answer for some questions. So the scenario described by ohnocb is (was) by the book.
That just shows what a ridiculous system it is.
Phil