Hyndland Secondary School 21st February 2018 SQA Liaison Manager – Karen Sproull Contact SQA - 0345 279 1000 or customer@sqa.org.uk
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National Qualifications
SCQF Level Previous/Existing Replaced by Resulting Advanced Higher SG Credit/Int2 SG General/Int1 Access 3/SG Foundation Access 2 Access 1 Advanced Higher Higher National 5 National 4 National 3 National 2 National 1 Graded A-D Pass/Fail 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
Assessment will be carried out using one or two of the following assessment methods: Assignment Case Study Practical Activity Performance Portfolio Project Question Paper/test Course assessment for N5, Higher and AH are externally marked by SQA, or internally marked and quality assured by SQA. Has My Coursework been distributed?
Changes to Assessment
Removal of mandatory unit assessments Timeline Session 2017-18: National 5 Session 2018-19: Higher Session 2019-20: Advanced Higher You will see that the units are being removed over the next three years, starting with National 5 then Higher then Advanced Higher. Therefore this year group. (N4 is under review).
National 5/Higher - changes to course assessment Very few changes to the aims, rationale or content of the courses Course assessments strengthened to ensure assessment of full content of course, following the removal of units This has resulted in one or more of the following: - extension of the existing question paper - extension of the existing item of coursework - new question paper - new item of coursework
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National 5 course documents
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