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When making your entries (and any resit entries), it’s essential you plan carefully, taking the entry and certification rules into consideration.
You will need to check unit and/or combinations are valid using the entry codes booklets and resit rules will not be broken.
To register candidates for Cambridge Technicals (2012), you need to make candidate entries. Candidates should be entered for either the full qualification or individual units. They should not be entered for both. There are no entry or resit rules.
To register candidates for Cambridge Technicals (2016), you first need to be approved for each qualification suite, eg IT or Media.
You then need to make qualification entries. These provide OCR with detailed data for each candidate, showing each qualification to be taken. This is also known as the ‘named entry route’. In addition, you will also need to make examined unit entries for timetabled tests.
A qualification entry allows the candidate to have one attempt at each examined unit and access to all of the internally assessed units.
Candidates can have two further attempts at an examined unit at Level 3 and one further attempt at Level 2. An examined unit resit fee is charged for each additional attempt. Resubmissions of internally assessed units are free of charge.
Being absent from an examined unit is not classed as an attempt but you will need to make another examined unit entry when entering again in a later series. There will be a charge for this unless candidates are withdrawn on medical grounds or following bereavement – we will refund these entry fees if they are withdrawn up to one week before the results publication date.
If a candidate fails the two permitted attempts at a mandatory examined unit at Level 2 or three attempts at Level 3, you will need to make a qualification resit entry (re-entry) before entering the student for the examined unit again.
A qualification re-entry is classed as a new, full qualification entry, ie access to all internal units which they can attempt as many times as they like.
One free attempt at the examined unit included in the re-entry fee (a second examined unit resit entry fee would apply).
Where a qualification re-entry has been made, a candidate’s achievements from their original entry will be carried over towards achievement of the full qualification under the new entry (subject to the rules of combination).
A qualification re-entry can only be made for the qualification size currently entered for and is separate to the top up or move down process:
After the examined unit entries deadline, it is possible to make late entries for a charge (see the fees list).
If you make late entries and there isn’t time to send you question papers before the exam, you can access standard non-interactive PDF question papers for the qualifications you’ve made entries for using our Digital File Despatch (DFD) service.