It would be more common that the batch is adjusted when all the results
are known.
Parental challenges are a major justification, but yes, as far as I'm
aware this reason would not remove a school's legal obligation to
disclose.
Ian
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Sent: 19 June 2006 15:41
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Subject: Re: [data-protection] School Exam Marks - Access by Schools
Pupils/Parents
... and that the purpose of allowing results to be moderated was to be
able to upgrade a pupil who had underperformed because of serious
illness or emotional trauma during the assessment period.
[snip]
... I suppose it may want to protect itself from challenge by the
parents of a pupil who has not been uprated when they believe he or she
should have been, but this doesn't seem a particularly convincing
justification.
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