Weekly roundup 12 Nov 2020

Hi everyone

We hope you're all keeping well.

Our summer 2021 exam timetables are now available. We've also now published our provisional GCSE timetable for November 2021 - please provide feedback by 30 November 2020.

Don't forget to join our Q&A webinars focusing on the unit-level changes for Cambridge Nationals and Cambridge Technicals.

If you haven't already booked a place on our free ‘How to mark a mock’ workshops, we'd recommend doing so via our Professional Development hub. These are currently available for GCSE Computer Science, GCSE Physics, A Level Biology, A Level Chemistry, A Level Psychology, A Level Religious Studies, GCSE English Literature and GCSE English Language.

In other news, at the end of last week the Government announced a review of university admissions. Read more about their proposals here.

As always, we’re here to support you and your students.

We’ve broadly aligned our Cambridge Nationals and Cambridge Technicals summer 2021 timetable with the GCSE and A Level timetable by delaying the start of exams. Following your comments, we’ve adjusted the timetable for Cambridge Nationals exams, with all twelve taking place after half term. This includes the Creative iMedia exam for R081. For Cambridge Technicals, we’ve kept a small number of exams before half term but the majority are distributed over three weeks from 7-23 June.

Download our summer 2021 exam timetables now.

It’s crucial that candidates produce their work themselves and that you can authenticate the work. Our normal rules around authenticity (for example students not plagiarising and teachers not giving candidates too much assistance through feedback and direction on what to write) and JCQ malpractice regulations will still apply.

We've provided guidance that explains our requirements for authenticating work produced at home. We’ve also included guidance on when work cannot be produced at home, which is largely based on health and safety issues. Download this from our Subject Information Update.

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