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Everything you need to know for summer 2021

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Timelines and key dates Summer 2021 - high level summary guides on grading Where to find support materials to help you grade students Guidance for determining teacher assessed grades for all qualifications Determining grades for GCSEs, AS and A Levels Determining and submitting grades for Cambridge Nationals and Cambridge Technicals How to submit teacher assessed grades Functional Skills FAQs

Following the cancellation of exams, we’re providing guidance to support you in determining and submitting teacher assessed grades this summer.

Timelines and key dates

  • GCSE, AS and A Level timeline - summer 2021 PDF, 78KB 26 days ago
  • Cambridge Nationals and Cambridge Technicals timeline - summer 2021 PDF, 77KB 8 days ago
  • Teacher assessed grades - Key dates PDF, 85KB 5 days ago

Summer 2021 - high level summary guides on grading

  • Determining student grades for summer awarding 2021 PDF, 631KB 28 days ago
  • A summary of the consultation outcomes for determining grades PDF, 75KB 34 days ago

Where to find support materials to help you grade students

We’ve published a package of support materials to help marking and grading:

Resource Where to find it
Additional assessment materials (including mark schemes and mapping grids) Grade submission system (additional assessment questions and mapping grids are available for students on this website)
Grade descriptors Assessment section of each qualification under 'Summer 2021 grading support'
Marking exemplars Grade submission system
Performance data Grade submission system
Grading exemplars Grade submission system

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Guidance for determining teacher assessed grades for all qualifications

  1. Teachers should make a holistic judgement of each student’s performance on a range of evidence relating to the subject content that has been delivered
  2. You should refer to Ofqual’s Information for centres about making objective judgements
  3. Here's a series of videos to support you with the JCQ guidance for determining grades in summer 2021
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Determining grades for GCSEs, AS and A Levels

The Joint Council for Qualifications (JCQ) has published detailed guidance on determining grades for GCSEs, AS and A Levels in summer 2021.

Determining and submitting grades for Cambridge Nationals and Cambridge Technicals

Much of the JCQ guidance also applies to determining and submitting teacher assessed grades for students certificating with Cambridge Nationals and Cambridge Technicals in summer 2021.

To reflect differences in the content and structure of these qualifications, we’ve produced our own dedicated guidance to supplement JCQ's.

  • Our first guidance document explains how to make your judgements that form the basis for teacher assessed grades (TAGs)
  • Our second dedicated guidance document covers all the key processes from quality assurance to results
  • We’ve provided further guidance on sampling of candidate evidence as part of the external quality assurance process

How to submit teacher assessed grades

To give students' results this summer, please submit teacher assessed grades for GCSE, AS and A Level, Cambridge Nationals, and Cambridge Technicals by 18 June 2021 using our grade submission system.

This is the same system you used for summer 2020.

Functional Skills

In February 2021, the Department for Education (DfE) and Ofqual confirmed that students taking our Functional Skills qualifications are to continue to take assessment where it is safe to do so. Where your students are not able to access live assessments safely or remotely, and you have exhausted all other options to take a test, you will be able to submit a request for a grade based on teacher judgement.

We have created

  1. a guidance document
  2. descriptions of ‘Pass’ thresholds for Level 1 and Level 2

which explain how you can judge if your students are eligible for a teacher assessed grade and the process you should use to make your judgements.

To request a teacher assessed grade for Functional Skills, please complete the Request for Teacher Assessed Grades (TAGs) form and send to VTQ@ocr.org.uk.

We have also put together guidance on the process for exams officers and FAQs for teachers/tutors and FAQs for teachers and tutors.

FAQs

We regularly update our most frequently asked questions to support you through summer 2021.

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