Key upcoming dates:

We recognise you are facing a busy period of time with your preparations for the summer term and carrying out summer 2021 assessment administration.

JCQ and the exam boards will continue to support you as best as we can during the grading process. To help you plan your admin accordingly, here are a couple of key dates to bear in mind this month.

Monday 12th April

This marks the opening of the Centre Policy submission window.

For every centre, the Head of Centre is required to complete the Summary of Centre Policy form and to upload the Centre Policy as an attachment prior to submission.

The deadline for submission is Friday 30th April. However we would strongly advise that you submit your Centre Policy as soon as possible.

12th April will also mark the secure release to teachers only of the following:

Marking exemplars
Attainment data

Monday 19th April

On 19th April, the following will be released:

Assessment materials from the exam boards, set of questions will be made available on their public websites. Slimmed down mapping grids will also be published
Grading exemplars will be available for release to exam centres only

JCQ will notify you once all of the above are available.

Documents Change Log:

To account for any potential updates to JCQ summer 2021 documents, we have created a change log to ensure you can keep track of specific updates and know when they were made.

Support:

With JCQ guidance documents and support materials now available on our website’s summer 2021 arrangements section, we will continue to assist you by answering questions you may have.

If your query relates to the following areas, please ensure it is directed to the appropriate awarding organisation or JCQ email address.

Access Arrangements and Modified Versions of Sets of Questions:

Any queries should be sent to centresupport@jcq.org.uk

Assessment support materials (grading exemplars, sets of questions, mark schemes, mapping grids)

Any queries on assessment support materials should be directed to the relevant awarding organisation.

Grading

Grading queries should be sent to Summer2021@jcq.org.uk.

Malpractice

Allegations of malpractice, suspected malpractice or incidents of malpractice should be sent by e-mail to the relevant awarding organisation whose qualification may have been affected.

Private Candidates

Private candidate queries should be sent to Summer2021@jcq.org.uk. A Frequently Asked Questions page is also available on the JCQ website

Quality Assurance

For the summer 2021 series, awarding organisations are working collectively to support centres on their quality assurance.

The awarding organisation supporting you has been determined by your centre number.

Pearson will support centres whose centre number falls between 10000 and 24999.

For further queries, please contact: JCQ2021QA@pearson.com

AQA will support centres whose centre number falls between 25000 and 52999

For further queries, please contact: JCQQA@aqa.org.uk

OCR will support centres whose centre number falls between 53000 and 67999
For further queries, please contact jcqqa@ocr.org.uk

WJEC Eduqas will support centres whose centre number falls between 68000 and 99999

For further queries, please contact: jcqqa@eduqas.co.uk

Student and parents

Student and parent queries should be sent to summer2021@jcq.org.uk. However, please ensure you have consulted your exam centre’s senior leadership team. Please also refer to JCQ’s guidance for Students and Parents on Summer 2021.

All JCQ documents relating to the Summer 2021 series can be found here. Please remember the awarding organisations offer comprehensive support on the summer 2021 arrangements.

Details can be found here: