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A level exams will happen in May and June as normal, and the exam boards have now published their final summer exam timetables. What is being done for vocational and technical qualifications in 2022? The information in this guide about arrangements for vocational and technical qualifications also applies to other general qualifications, including the International Baccalaureate, core mathematics and Pre-U. We expect that many of you will already have taken some of the assessments that your centre would use for TAGs, if needed. Your centre will decide when it has collected sufficient evidence from you. Preparing for, and taking, those assessments should also help you to prepare for summer exams. The exam board or awarding organisation will decide whether an adjustment should be made to the way you take the exam or are assessed, or whether you should be given a small number of extra marks — or, for certain vocational and technical qualifications, if you should take your exam or assessment at a later date.

If you wish to complain to Ofqual about an exam board or other awarding organisation, for example, because you think it hasn’t followed our rules or its own published policies and procedure, see our complaints procedure. We would usually expect you to have complained to the exam board before coming to us, to give the exam board an opportunity to resolve your complaint. Awarding organisations We use “in process” in sentences to say that something is moving towards a state of completion. What Does It Mean If Something Is “In Progress”? In September 2021, when students began studying their GCSE and A level course, Ofqual set out a two year plan for grading. The awarding organisations that offer GCSEs, AS and A levels are commonly called exam boards. Exam boards develop, mark and award GCSEs, AS and A level qualifications. There are 4 exam boards delivering these qualifications in England: AQA, OCR, Pearson and WJEC Eduqas. So, how do you choose between using the two phrases? They’re both fairly similar, so we can understand why it might be difficult for you to figure out which one works best in which case.

Some of these changes will also apply to the November 2022 GCSE English language and mathematics re-sit exams. There will be advance information deployed for both subjects in July, and a formulae sheet will be available for mathematics. We expect your teachers to still teach all of the course content so that you are well prepared and have all of the knowledge and skills that you need for your next steps. If the exam board finds a mistake was made with the moderation, your grade could stay the same or go up, but it cannot go down. This is because the review affects many students, and centres may not be able to get permission from everyone to request the review. The Technical Qualification part of the T Level has two different types of assessment. The core assessment assesses the knowledge, understanding and skills you need in your chosen area, and the occupational specialism assesses the specialist knowledge and skills you need for your chosen career.

This chart shows the relative usage of in process vs. in progress across all English-speaking communities since 1800: Alternatively, according to The Cambridge Dictionary, “progress” means “movement to an improved or more developed state, or to a forward position.” While the end result is always the same with both words, “progress” talks about the current state compared to the future completion. There will also be protection for students taking GCSEs, AS levels and A levels when it comes to grading, which we explain below. Each awarding organisation knows the kinds of adaptations that are best for its qualifications. Adaptations could include changes to the way your assessment is run, changes to the method of assessment, such as replacing a face-to-face assessment with a remote assessment, or it might include giving you advance information. In 2020 and 2021, when GCSE, AS and A level grades were determined by teachers, national outcomes were higher than is normally the case.Your centre will know details of the adaptations put in place for your qualification. If you have any questions about how you will be assessed this year, please speak to your teacher. Students taking vocational and technical qualifications this year that have already completed some of their assessments in other years Awarding organisations can continue to adapt exams and assessments in vocational and technical qualifications this year, to take account of the disruption caused by the pandemic. When exam boards determine grades, they do this by setting grade boundaries. Grade boundaries are the minimum number of marks needed for each grade.