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Preparing for results

Hi everyone

We hope you're keeping well and are looking forward to the upcoming summer holidays, or already enjoying them if your school term has ended!

We're now in the phase where we'll be standardising grades so that your students get final results that are as fair as possible this summer. To help you understand how grades will be standardised we’ve created a simple infographic showing the process for Cambridge Nationals. We've also created one for GCSEs, AS and A Levels and other general qualifications showing the process developed by Ofqual. Guidance for Cambridge Technicals will be available next week.

The autumn exam series dates and entry deadlines have now been confirmed. This is an opportunity for students, such as private candidates, who were unable to receive a calculated grade this summer.

We'll continue to provide you with our weekly update over the summer holidays to make sure you have all the latest news and guidance in the run up to results day and the new term.

As always, we’d like to thank you for your patience at this time.

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Preparing for results
Results day

As we move towards August we're continuing to update our support pages with more information on the standardisation process and results day.

You may wish to direct your classes to the support section for students, as well as our blog on mindfulness and mental health.

We'll continue to update these pages as more information is confirmed.

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Cambridge Nationals: standardising grades

To help you to understand how Cambridge Nationals final grades will be awarded this summer, we’ve created an infographic showing the process for standardising centre assessment grades.

We've also produced one for GCSE, AS and A Levels.

Guidance for Cambridge Technicals will be available next week.

Cambridge Nationals infographic
Cambridge Nationals standardising grades
Autumn series dates confirmed
Autumn series dates

Yesterday (9 July), JCQ confirmed the dates for the Autumn 2020 series. There will be a full series of AS & A Level and GCSEs in all subjects available in autumn 2020.

  • AS and A Level: Monday 5 October - Friday 23 October.
  • GCSE: Monday 2 November - Monday 23 November

The deadlines for entries are:

  • (AS & A Level) – 4 September
  • GCSE (except English Language and Mathematics) – 18 September
  • GCSE (English Language and Mathematics) – 4 October.

JCQ have published a simple infographic for students outlining the three phases in this year’s awarding systems. They've also launched a short survey to find out what schools and colleges think of their communications on this year’s awarding and what more they can do to help you.

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Example results slips

We've updated our result day slip examples for summer 2020 results day:

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Results slips
Teaching a diverse and inclusive history curriculum
Migration

Are UK history lessons inclusive enough so that everyone can see themselves in the story? Do they take into account the many legacies of the British Empire and colonialism?

Mike Goddard - History Subject Advisor - reflects on some of the key work currently going on by OCR and others in this area in his latest blog.

You can also listen to our latest podcast where history teachers, Clare Broomfield and Sitara Amin (who teach the migration topic on our History GCSEs); historian and co-lead of the Runnymede Trust's 'Our Migration Story', Sundeep Lidher; and Mike Goddard discuss the history curriculum and the teaching of migration, empire and colonialism in Britain's history lessons.

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