Exam processing technology

Managing large-scale, high-stakes exams is a complex process, filled with potential risks. Learners around the world still rely on manual processes to deliver exam results that are the basis of their future.

At AQA we are passionate about elevating the quality and accuracy of assessment. We have a long history of pioneering new technology and our proprietary exam processing platform incorporates our 120 years of expertise in delivering assessments.

This suite of technologies enables us to implement best practice, on a large scale, at each stage of the assessment lifecycle.

Increasing reliability and efficiency

Our fundamental purpose is to process those marks accurately and reliably, to ensure that learners get the right results.

To protect and enhance the security of our exam processing, we have made major investments in our technology. We now have the world-leading, cloud-based exam processing system. It delivers the scale, resilience and security demanded by the UK exam system – for our regulator, for teachers and, most importantly, for students.

By building on these solutions, other awarding organisations can gain similar benefits in quality management, accuracy, reliability and the ability to manage the exam process with real-time information.

Certification and quality assurance

We can provide quality assurance of the delivery and assessment of teaching programmes and learning outcomes.

We also provide certification of existing courses, endorsed by us or by government recognition, to demonstrate approval of quality courses. Every centre that delivers an endorsed course goes through our rigorous External Quality Assurance checks, meaning they provide the same high levels of learning we expect from all our recognised centres.

Endorsement provided by Training Qualifications UK