Unauthorised Items Poster Clarification
Following your feedback on the updated unauthorised items poster we published last week, we can confirm the version published in September is also still valid for this academic year.
If you have already printed the original version, you do not need to print the updated version. The newer version highlights that any watch is no longer allowed in the exams.
We are sorry for the confusion this has caused, particularly at an already busy time.
NEA Marking and Moderation
JCQ and the Exam Boards have published a notice regarding the marking and moderation of NEA (non-exam assessment) in light of the measures announced on grading for students taking exams this summer. Read the full notice.
Updated FAQs on Advance Information
JCQ has published updated FAQs for Students and FAQs for Exam Centres on Advance Information. The additional Question 10 can be read below and the full FAQs can be found on the Summer 2022 Awarding Arrangements page.
Students FAQs
10. What is the point of advance information if I have to cover and revise all my course?
Advance information is not intended to identify aspects of specification content that you don’t need to know or revise. It’s intended to support you in focusing your revision. It’s important to remember that in a normal exams
series, you wouldn’t know which aspects of specification content would be tested in any of your exams. Advance information helps you to prioritise your revision by sharing information about the content that will be assessed in your exams. Your teachers will be able to help you with how to best use this information for each subject.
Exam Centres FAQs
10. What is the value of advance information if the advice remains that the full content of the specification should be covered?
Advance information has not been designed to identify aspects of specification content that need not be covered during the course. It is intended to help guide and prioritise revision. GCSE and GCE assessments
sample specification content each year. In a normal exams series, students and teachers do not know which aspects of specification content will feature in any of the assessments. Advance information supports revision by communicating, ahead of the examinations, the focus of the assessments in 2022. We trust this will provide reassurance to students as they prepare for their exams.
Invigilator Vacancy Map
The ‘Invigilator Vacancy Map’ developed by The Exams Office, has gone live today: Invigilator Recruitment & Vacancy Map - The Exams Office
What is the Invigilator Vacancy Map?
We all share the common goal of wanting exams to be delivered effectively this summer and invigilators play a vital role in the successful delivery of any exam series. Centres are reporting additional difficulties in recruiting invigilators this summer, given it has been three years since the last full exam series and many long-standing invigilators have left the role.
The Exams Office are supporting these efforts by developing a site that collates centre vacancies by location, which we will endeavour to share with possible candidates, who can search by location for vacancies.
This map will be work in two stages:
Stage 1 (8th March-21st March): Schools, colleges and exam centres input their vacancies and centre details.
Stage 2 (from 21st March, or earlier, depending on the speed of centres entering vacancies): The Vacancy Map is shared with potential pools of invigilators.