Awarding organisations that also offer GCSEs, AS and A levels are known as exam boards. Exam boards must follow additional rules covering these qualifications. For many programmes on offer at the University, students are provided with an extensive range of modules to choose from. This has several benefits and advantages, but also means that creating an exam timetable can be a very complex process. The Joint Council for Qualifications (JCQ) is the exam boards’ membership organisation (AQA, OCR, Pearson and WJEC). Exam boards use JCQ to set common policies and procedures that centres must follow. In our Exam Tables category, you will find a wide range of high-quality and robust 2 or 3-section treatment tables and accessoriesfrom name brand manufacturers such as AGA, CARINA Medical or Rohde & Grahl for treatment and exam rooms. They consider, for example, whether the error will have stopped students being able to answer the question or complete the task, or whether students’ performance in other questions might have been affected by the error. They then decide the fairest way to proceed. This might include analysing how students answered the question or awarding all students full marks for the question.

An awarding organisation may choose to offer the centre (or individual student whose appeal was accepted by the awarding organisation) the opportunity to attempt to resolve the disagreement without the need for a full and formal appeal hearing. This is not something we require, and the opportunity for a full appeal must remain available. Private candidates For A levels in biology, chemistry, physics and geology, centres have been allowed to assess the Common Practical Assessment Criteria (CPAC) across the minimum number of practical activities required to enable students to demonstrate their competence.

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The Equality Act 2010 requires awarding organisations to make reasonable adjustments to assessments for disabled students. Ofqual requires awarding organisations to publish their arrangements for making reasonable adjustments, including how a student qualifies for a reasonable adjustment and what reasonable adjustments might be made.

We schedule between 650-900 exams for each main exam period for over 15,000 different students. Due to the complexities it is not possible to avoid students having exams scheduled on consecutive days. An awarding organisation must make sure that those making appeal decisions are competent to do so, have no personal interest in the outcome, and were not involved in the original marking or moderation or the review of the marking or moderation. The final decision must involve at least one decision maker who is not connected to the awarding organisation. Equality Advisory and Support Service (EASS) advises and assists individuals on issues relating to equality and human rights, across England, Scotland and Wales.The usual arrangements will be in place for you to receive GCSE, AS and A level results in advance of the relevant results day. if a student’s disability doesn’t affect their ability to demonstrate what they know and can do in an assessment, then they will not get any adjustments The Institute for Apprenticeships and Technical Education works with employers to develop, approve, review and revise apprenticeships and technical qualifications. This includes the subject content of the Technical Qualification within the T Level. Awarding organisations re-mark the questions in respect of which the errors were made – however large or small the effect of the error The Exams Office, in partnership with the National Association of Examinations Officers, has also produced the Invigilator Recruitment and Vacancy map to support centres in recruiting invigilators. Non-exam assessment in GCSEs, AS or A levels

Many VTQs are modular and have a high proportion of internal assessment. This means that it is more likely that there will be evidence available which could be used to determine grades in the event exams are cancelled. Where VTQs are used for progression and assessed in a similar way to GCSEs and A Levels, awarding organisations will make you aware of any action that may be needed. You can find full information and guidance about the arrangements for this year’s summer awarding in our guidance on supporting resilience in the exam system in 2023. Before exams and assessments Reasonable adjustments how well an adjustment helps a student deal with the difficulties their disability causes when taking their assessment – an adjustment that works well is more likely to be reasonable than one that doesn’t really help

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any of the moderation decisions were unreasonable, from the point of view of a moderator who had the appropriate subject knowledge and who had been trained to moderate the assessment For some aspects of the qualification system, the exam boards work together to develop common ways of working. For example, they jointly plan the summer exam timetable to minimise clashes. When the exam boards work together in this way, they generally do so through the Joint Council for Qualifications (JCQ), their membership body. Private candidates Malpractice can affect qualification standards and confidence in qualifications. It undermines the hard work of students, teachers, and centres. Ofqual takes it very seriously.