1. Hyndland Secondary School 21st February 2018
SQA Liaison Manager – Karen Sproull
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2. Navigating the website
National Qualifications
Changes to National 5 and Higher
Coursework
Navigating the website
Exceptional Circumstance and Post Results Service

3. National Qualifications

4. 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

5. 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.
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6. Changes to Assessment

7. Removal of mandatory unit assessments
Timeline
Session :
National 5
Session :
Higher
Session :
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).

8. 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

9. Navigating the Website

10. National 5 course documents

11. Exceptional Circumstances and Post Results Service
Purpose
Head of Centre decision

12. My SQA
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