Consultation season continues at Ofqual with new proposals for music and dance.

Following the first delivery of the reformed GCSEs, AS and A Levels in music for summer 2018, two issues were identified with the rules for the assessment of performance.

One of these issues also applies to the reformed GCSE, AS and A Level in dance.

To address these issues, Ofqual is proposing to make some small changes to the subject-level conditions:

• Revise requirements to allow exam boards to determine how to mark a student’s performance when that performance falls short of the minimum required length.
• Add a footnote to the conditions for GCSE, AS and A Level music, to broaden the range of acceptable reference material beyond a traditional written score, where such a score is not available.
• Revise requirements for how many dances students are required to perform in the GCSE dance performance assessment, in order to align with the DfE subject content.

The deadline for the consultation is 9 December.