Inspection and exam review.

Does your child want to learn from mistakes made in an exam? Or is your child worried that mistakes were made during grading? Then the exam can be viewed. What rules are there for viewing? Who grades exams? And can the exam score still be changed because of a grading mistake?

Viewing completed exams

Your child has the right to view the school exams and the central exams. The school must keep the completed work for at least half a year after the results are set. To view the completed exam your child usually makes an appointment with the teacher. If there are other rules they are in the school’s policy, for example in the student statute or the exam regulations.

Copies of completed exams

Because of the privacy law, a copy of the completed exams is a right of the student. The privacy law gives the right to receive a copy of the personal data processed (Article 15 paragraph 3 privacy law). If a candidate asks for a copy, the school must give a copy of the exam answers and notes/corrections from the correctors, but it does not have to give the questions/tasks.

Wrongly marked or disagree with assessment

In principle the determined result can no longer be changed. But if you see when viewing the exam that a correct answer was wrongly marked as wrong? Or your child thinks more points should have been given for a task? Discuss this as soon as possible with the teacher.

If it is a school exam the teacher can act in consultation with the exam committee at the school. This is not required.

If it is a central exam the first corrector can discuss the mistake with the second corrector. If both think a mistake was made, they discuss it with the education inspectorate. If the inspectorate also thinks a mistake was made, the exam result can be changed. This is not required.

Mistake in the exam or answer sheet

If a correct answer is missing in the central exam rules, or even if there is a mistake, tell the teacher. The teacher can contact the Exam Office but does not have to.

It can also be useful to submit another interpretation of the answers in the rules to the LAKS. If more complaints like this come in, the exam scoring is sometimes changed.

Guide: how to handle disputes after viewing exam work

To clarify the rules around viewing and correction of exams a guide was created.