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This paper presents a critical discourse analysis of a section of the Spanish law regulating students' requests for a remarking of their university entrance examinations and of the students' responses. A systemic functional analysis of the Ministerial Directive and the students' texts reveals ambiguities in the Directive as regards the role assigned the students, and explains the differences in the...