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Post by lawguardian on Nov 1, 2007 9:54:39 GMT -5
There has been some discussion in other threads about individuals appealing their rating under the old process and as a result having their score lowered. Is there anyone who appealed their rating under the old process and had their score raised? If so, do you recall upon what basis you appealed your score? Did you have more information than what we have been given this time, i.e., just a numerical rating?
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Post by 3orangewhips on Nov 1, 2007 11:01:43 GMT -5
any advice on appealing from anyone? I'm gonna give it a shot.
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Post by aljhunter on Nov 1, 2007 11:12:55 GMT -5
Call me conservative, but here is my advice on appealing: Don't. The appeal has to be e-mailed within 30 days after the NOR. Right now, none of us knows the objective criteria OPM used to assess the various competencies. So, any appeal will be based simply upon the appellant's subjective belief that OPM miscalculated the score. It is not a legally solid, or intellectually appealing (no pun intended), argument, particularly since all of us want to project compentence in legal reasoning and judicial temperment. Some on this site have suggested using FOIA to gain information about scoring to use in preparing for the exam that will be administered within the year. . . .
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Post by odarite on Nov 1, 2007 11:55:48 GMT -5
Is there anyone who appealed their rating under the old process and had their score raised? If so, do you recall upon what basis you appealed your score? Did you have more information than what we have been given this time, i.e., just a numerical rating? An ALJ friend told me that someone in his class had gotten his score raised by sending a request to OPM to get copies of the WD questions, answer and scoring and instead received a higher score, so I did the same and with the same result. We received not only a total score, but also subscores for the various parts that went into the final score. Remember, that was a totally differnt process and what happened then is no predictor of what happens now. I am inclined this time to join the sit and wait school, without appealing. Until the first SSA certificate is requested, we will have no idea what a reachable score is this time around, so why appeal if your score is good enough (no matter how bad you may feel it is). Last time, everybody who made it to the WD & SI stage was given 70 points, and as a result the scores were very tightly clustered. They never reached lower than the high 80s. It seems reasonable to believe that this time the situation will be very different. |
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Post by arlene25 on Nov 1, 2007 16:05:06 GMT -5
I am leaning towards appealing my score. I don't think it can get much lower than it is. It is hard to come up with a valid reason though.
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Post by justalawyer on Nov 1, 2007 16:15:24 GMT -5
Hmm, interesting - I wonder if a request for the score breakdown would simply give those. I'm not necessarily interested in appealing my horribly low score ... rather just learning what area(s) I need to improve. Thoughts?
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Post by learnedhand on Nov 3, 2007 16:41:16 GMT -5
Odarite, do you know anything about the details of their requests? Was it in the form of an appeal? Did they indicate that they were questioning their score and wanted the information? I'd like as much information as you have regarding what they did. It sounds quite sensible to me and, if nothing else, could give an idea of what went wrong.
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Post by odarite on Nov 4, 2007 6:44:13 GMT -5
Odarite, do you know anything about the details of their requests? Was it in the form of an appeal? Did they indicate that they were questioning their score and wanted the information? I'd like as much information as you have regarding what they did. It sounds quite sensible to me and, if nothing else, could give an idea of what went wrong. Unfortunately, I really don't know at this late date. This all happened more than 10 years ago. Sorry, and I wish I could be more help. |
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