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Supporting Exams Officers and their centres

The Exams Office welcomes JCQ to its National Exams Officer Conferences

For all JCQ information, please visit the JCQ website

If exams officers need to contact JCQ regarding exams administration related queries, please email centresupport@jcq.org.uk – for other queries see contact details here

JCQ information

Refer to the Exams Office section of the JCQ website where you will find the most essential JCQ documents which will help you in your role as an examinations officer. This section has been structured in line with the key activities of the exam cycle, ranging from key dates, access arrangements, conducting exams to results and post results services.

Also refer to additional information on the JCQ website including:

Support for Exams Officers

Blogs

E-Newsletters

Events

Examination results 

News Releases

Videos and Infographics

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Centres delivering JCQ member awarding body qualifications which come under the common arrangements must conduct exams and assessments in accordance with JCQ’s regulations, guidance and instructions which include:

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(Last published 14 August 2023) Note that any queries regarding special consideration must be directed to the relevant awarding body and not to JCQ

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The Exams Office invited to join the Independent Commission into Malpractice…

Following the JCQ’s announcement in July 2018 of the launch of an independent industry-led Commission into examination malpractice chaired by Sir John Dunford, The Exams Office confirmed they would be contributing to the work of the Commission

The Exams Office was the only Exams Officer representative organisation invited to join the Commission
Report of the Independent Commission on Examination Malpractice (published 10 September 2019)
Independent Commission into Malpractice (July 2018)

JCQ 2023/24 publications

Below is a useful overview of publications as made available by JCQ on its website for 2023/24 – for all the most essential  JCQ documents, please visit the Exams Office area of the JCQ website here 

These include:

General Regulations for Approved Centres (published September 2023)

Preparing for disruption to examinations Effective from 1 September 2023

Videos added to Support for Exams Officers

Instructions for conducting examinations 2023-2024 (published August 2023)

FAQs – Using calculators (published August 2023)

Exam Room Incident Log and Centre Emergency Evacuation Procedure (updated August 2023)

Effective from 1 September 2023 (published August 2023):

Instructions for conducting GCSE & GCE Modern Foreign Languages & Irish Listening examinations

Exam Materials Receipt Log – Point of Delivery

Exam Materials Receipt Log – Exams Officer

Pre-series Checklist

Exam Day Checklist

Notice to Centres – The people present

Notice to Centres – Examination contingency plan/examinations policy – Effective from 1 September 2023 (published August 2023)

Information for candidates documents – With effect from 1 September 2023 (published August 2023)

  • Coursework assessments 
  • Non-examination assessments
  • On-screen tests
  • Written examinations

A guide to the special consideration process 2023/24 (published August 2023)

Access Arrangements and Reasonable Adjustments 2023-2024 (published August 2023)

Effective from 1 September 2023:

Instructions for conducting coursework 2023-2024 (published August 2023)

Instructions for conducting non-examination assessments 2023-2024 (published August 2023)

Effective from 1 September 2023 (published August 2023):

Notice to Centres – Informing candidates of their centre assessed marks

Reviews of marking – centre assessed marks
(GCE coursework, GCE and GCSE non-examination assessments, Project qualifications) Suggested template for centres

Notice to Centres – Sharing NEA material and candidates’ work 

Reasonable Adjustments for GCE A-level sciences Endorsement of practical skills 

Online forms (published August 2023)

  • Guidance notes – Transferred Candidate arrangements 2023/24
  • Guidance notes for overnight supervision of candidates with a timetable variation 2023/24
  • Guidance notes – Alternative Site arrangements 2023/24
  • Guidance notes – Centre Consortium arrangements 2023/24
  • Guidance notes – Very Late Arrival Form 2023/24

Appeals FAQs: Summer 2023 (published July 2023)

Infographic – Post-Results Services, Summer 2023 (published July 2023)

Key Dates – June 2024 (published June 2023)

JCQ Appeals booklet (A guide to the awarding bodies’ appeals processes) Effective from June 2023 examination series (published June 2023)

Post-Results Services – June 2023 series and November 2023 series (published May 2023)

Key Dates – November 2023 (published March 2023)
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