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Hi everyone

We hope you are keeping well and safe.

Don't forget to submit your centre assessment grades and rank orders for general qualifications and Cambridge Nationals by Friday 12 June. For Cambridge Technicals the system will be available from Monday 8 - Friday 26 June to submit centre assessment grades and rank orders per unit.

We're pleased to hear you're finding the process for submitting your centre assessment grades and rank orders to us straightforward. We've updated our FAQs with what to do for missing candidates, amendments to entries and errors in submitted data on our grade submission system. For teachers seeking further guidance on ensuring centre assessment grades are objective, please take a look at the information here.

We're continuing to thank centres supporting their local communities, the NHS and their students - you can read their stories on our Good News page.

As always, we’d like to thank you for your patience at this time. We're continuing to work closely with other exam boards, Ofqual and the DfE so you can have clarity about every qualification. 

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Grade submission system now open
Submit centre assessment grades

Don't forget to submit your centre assessment grades and rank orders for General Qualifications and Cambridge Nationals by Friday 12 June.

For Cambridge Technicals you'll be able to start submitting your centre assessment grades and rank order per unit from Monday 8 until Friday 26 June.

Submit grades and rank order

How to use the grade submission system

There are still spaces on our live online grade submission training. The session will take you through a demo of our system for capturing centre assessment grades and rank orders.

If you can't make the training, we've produced a video showing you how to use the grade submission system. You can also find step-by-step guides on how to use it on our webpage.

Grade submission system

We've also produced a video offering guidance for Cambridge Technicals teachers and Heads of Department on generating centre assessment grades and rank orders per unit.

For teachers seeking further guidance on ensuring centre assessment grades are objective, please take a look at the information here.

Finally, we've also updated our FAQs with what to do for missing candidates, amendments to entries and errors in submitted data on our grade submission system.

Book training  Video and step-by-step guides

Guidance for Year 12 Cambridge Technicals students
Functional Skills how they will be graded

We have published a new FAQ on Year 12 students not certificating this year.

We also have additional FAQs for Year 12 (Year 13 in Northern Ireland).

Read FAQs

Subject Advisors share resources to support home learning

Our Subject Advisors continue to share resources, via their blogs, which you can use to support students learning at home.

Recent blog topics include resources to support delivering Business and Economics from home, approaches to help Year 12 students for A Level Chemistry and osmosis at home for A Level Biology.

Resources and support

Cambridge University Press are also extending their free of charge eBooks availability while schools are closed to support remote teaching and learning.

Check out the blogs

Your Stories: NHS hero portraits
The Leys portraits

We're proud to share the stories of our teachers and school staff who are supporting their local communities and the NHS, as well as their students during these difficult times. 

This week we share a story from The Leys School in Cambridge where OCR Art & Design A Level students have created amazing portraits of NHS workers as part of the 'Thomas Croft - Portraits for NHS Heroes' initiative. 

If you'd like to share your story with us please email us at ocrmarketing.campaigns@ocr.org.uk.

Read stories

Are you involved in teaching KS4 vocational qualifications?

Following the outcome of the Ofqual consultation on the new approach to regulating Technical Awards qualifications for 14-16 year olds, we're now looking at updating our specifications for teaching from September 2022.

Would you like to be involved and influence the future content and design of our suite of Cambridge Nationals Level 1/2 qualifications?

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If so, please email us at ProductDevelopment@ocr.org.uk by Monday 22 June with details of the subjects you currently teach and we'll be in touch.

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