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Year 10 Exams
End of year exams are expected to take place in early May 2024. Dates will be confirmed in July 2023.
Students are not allowed to study at home and must attend lessons as normal when not in exams.
Year 11 Mocks
Mock exams are expected to take place in late November/early December 2023. Dates will be confirmed in July 2023.
Students are not allowed to study at home and must attend lessons as normal when not in exams.
Year 12 Exams
There are no lessons for A-Level subjects during this period and students need only attend school to sit exams.
Year 13 Mocks
There are no lessons for A-Level subjects during this period and students need only attend school to sit exams.
Special Consideration
Please use this form to notify us of any adverse circumstances affecting a student at the time of an exam.
We expect this form to be completed by a parent, but students may do so.
Special Consideration in Exams
Mock exams
We will keep records of special consideration requests, but no formal action will be taken unless the government requires schools to implement their contingency plans for the national cancellation of exams.
Public exams
We will notify exam boards of the circumstances, provided the request falls within the remit of the special consideration process.
You can find details of how special consideration is used in public exams on the JCQ website:
https://www.jcq.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Guide_to_spec_con_process_October22_FINAL.pdf
What should you tell us about?
- Accidents / Bereavement – please ensure we are notified of any bereavement occurring within 6 months of an exam.
- Disruption at home
- Illness
What is special consideration?
Special consideration is given to a candidate who has temporarily experienced illness, injury or some other event outside their control at the time of the assessment. It is applied when the issue or event has had, or is reasonably likely to have had, a material effect on a candidate’s ability to take an assessment or demonstrate his or her normal level of attainment in an assessment.
Special consideration can go some way to assist a candidate affected by a potentially wide range of difficulties, emotional or physical, which may influence performance in their examinations. It cannot remove the difficulty faced by the candidate. This means that there will be some situations where candidates should not be entered for an examination. This is because only minor adjustments can be made to the mark awarded. To make larger adjustments would jeopardise the standard of the examination.
There are minimum requirements for enhanced grading in cases of acceptable absence.
All examinations measure what a candidate knows and can do. The overall grade(s) awarded must reflect the level of attainment demonstrated in the examination(s). The grades awarded do not necessarily reflect the candidate’s true level of ability if attainment has been considerably affected over a long period of time.
Where long term circumstances have prevented the candidate from reaching the competence standards, it may not be possible to make an adjustment.
What is special consideration not appropriate for?
If your child has a long-term medical condition or is affected by other circumstances over a period of time, special consideration cannot take account of the impact.
You should contact the relevant Head of Year who can discuss appropriate measures we can put in place.
There is no special consideration for circumstances affecting a student’s revision.
Written Exam and Non-Examination Assessment (NEA) Information
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Special Consideration & Reasonable Adjustments Policy July 2019
Policy for Review of marking – internal assessment Nov 2023
Review of Marking and Access to Scripts Policy – Examinations Sep 2022
Access to Fair Assessment Policy July 2019
Information for candidates – coursework assessments 2023-24
Information for candidates – non examination assessments 2023-24
Information for candidates – on-screen tests 2023-24
Information for Candidates – Privacy Notice 2023-24
Information for Candidates – Social Media Warning 2023-24
Information for candidates – written exams 2023-24
