Functional Skills arrangements for summer 2020
23 June 2020
This update has been revised to include further information since originally published on 16 June and 5 June 2020.
This update applies to all OCR Functional Skills qualifications across all levels:
- Legacy Maths, English and ICT Functional Skills
- Reformed Maths and English Functional Skills
The window for generating and submitting centre assessment grades for Functional Skills is now open until 6 July 2020. Please see the instructions below for more details on how to generate your centre assessment grades and evidence.
Preparing your centre assessment grades and evidence
Make entries
You will need a valid entry for all candidates your teachers/tutors have identified as a Pass and eligible for a centre assessment grade. The entry needs to be in place before submitting your centre assessment grade to OCR. New entries (if required) can be made until 6 July 2020:
- Legacy English, Maths and ICT – Entries should be made on Interchange. If you have unused entries (named or unnamed), you can skip this step.
- Reformed English and Maths – You need to make a qualification entry (booking) for each candidate via our secure website for Functional Skills. If the candidate already has a reformed qualification entry, you can skip this step.
- Legacy Functional Skills on-screen testing (Level 1 and 2 examined components only) – If your centre usually uses on-screen testing on OCR Surpass, you can skip this step, further instructions can be found on our FAQs.
Complete the information and submission forms
The teacher/tutor should complete the Functional Skills supporting information form and centre assessment grade submission form(s). We need:
Complete the Head of Centre declaration
Send the completed Functional Skills supporting information form and centre assessment grade submission forms to your Head of Centre for sign-off. A Head of Centre declaration is included on the supporting information form and must be signed by the Head of Centre before submitting the centre assessment grades to OCR. An electronic (or scanned) signature is fine. The form does not need to be printed and signed. Please see our FAQs for more guidance on completing these forms and the declaration.
Make claims, create attendance lists or create a test session
Before you can submit your centre assessment grades, evidence and Head of Centre declaration to OCR, depending on your entries, you need to do the following:
- Create an attendance list for legacy examined components – Create a single attendance list per component for all candidates you have identified as a ‘Pass’.
- Create a test session for reformed examined components – Please see our FAQs for more details.
- Schedule an on-screen test for legacy examined components – If you usually conduct legacy on-screen tests, please see our FAQs for more details.
- Make claims for moderated components (all Entry Level and Level 1/2 Speaking, Listening and Communicating/Communication) – We need you to make a single claim for each moderated component for all candidates identified as a ‘pass’ in the usual way.
Submit your centre assessment grades and evidence
Once you have made your claims and completed your attendance list or scheduled tests, please email the claim and/or reference numbers with your Functional Skills supporting information form and centre assessment grade submission forms to vqprocessing@ocr.org.uk. Please see the FAQs for more details.
If you have any queries, please call our Customer Support Centre on 01223 553998.
Guidance
Qualifications
- ICT Entry Level - 09873, 09874, 09875
- ICT Level 1 - 09876
- ICT Level 2 - 09877