This document provides a high level overview of the assessment and grade setting process undertaken by member awarding organisations offering GCSE and GCE qualifications. More detailed procedures, which should be referred to if challenging an awarding organisation’s decisions and processes, may be found in the Exams Office section of the JCQ website and individual members’ procedure documents click here.
Assessment materials
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Question papers and assessment tasks
We design all of our question papers and assessment tasks to follow the specification. This means that they are at the correct level for the qualification they assess, they are valid for the specification, they assess the content reliably over time and they differentiate between learners of different abilities. At the same time they allow learners of all abilities to demonstrate what they have learnt. We also ensure that our assessment materials are unbiased, accessible, are not overly predictable and where there is a choice of questions or tasks they will be of equal difficulty. If we find evidence during the assessment process that a particular assessment item has not performed as expected we will take that into account at the grade boundary setting stage. We review the performance of our assessment materials annually.
Modified papers
We modify question papers for learners with specific needs, for example, we produce papers with enlarged fonts, or papers in Braille. We modify question papers on request within a specified lead time. The available formats and procedure for requesting modifications can be found in the JCQ document Access Arrangements and Reasonable Adjustments.
Marking of external assessments
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