Appeals Service
You can use the SQA free Appeals service if you have concerns about a grade (or grades) on your results certificate.
How to submit an appeal
You can appeal directly to the SQA or ask the school to do it for you.
The service is open and the submission deadlines are:
- Tuesday 13 August at 11:59 pm for priority appeals
- Tuesday 27 August at 11:59 pm for all other appeals
Your appeal can be prioritised if you have a conditional place at university or college, or in training or employment that depends on your grade.
Our appeals guidance video explains how to sign up and use the service.
What happens next?
Once you submit an appeal, a senior marker will carry out a marking review of your SQA-marked assessments.
This is not a re-mark.
A marking review checks that:
- all parts of your SQA-assessments have been marked
- the marking is in line with national standards
- the marks given for each answer have been totalled correctly and
- the correct result has been entered on our system.
Please note that after being reviewed, your result could stay the same, go up or go down.