## The rules, in order

1. **Request within 5 working days** of results being published. Miss the window and the result
   stands.
2. **Apply by email to CAPLE**, or submit the request through your centre.
3. **Pay 25 euros.** The fee is not refunded whatever the outcome. Bank details are published on
   CAPLE's results page.
4. **All components are re-marked** by a different assessment team, not just the one you contest.
5. **CAPLE replies within 25 working days** of receiving the request, to you and to your centre.
6. **The decision is final.** There is no further appeal.

## Be realistic about what you are buying

You will not be shown your script. You will not learn what changed or why. You are paying 25 euros
and waiting five more weeks for a re-mark of an exam you cannot see, conducted by people who also
cannot discuss it with you.

Point 4 deserves particular attention. Because every component is re-marked, a component you
passed can come back lower. This is not a one-way appeal where the only risk is the fee.

## When it is worth doing

There is a narrow case where it makes sense: when a partial percentage is wildly out of line with
every practice result you ever recorded. If you consistently scored well above the line on reading
in timed practice and the results page shows something near the floor, a marking or transcription
error is at least plausible, and 25 euros to test that is reasonable.

## When it is not

Most of the time, booking the next session is the faster and cheaper decision. A reapreciação
costs five weeks you could have spent preparing, and the base rate of results being overturned is
not something you should plan around.

The strongest position is having practice data to compare against. Candidates who have scored
themselves repeatedly against the real pass mark know immediately whether a result is surprising.