Non-exam assessment (NEA)
These pages will walk you through the end-to-end NEA delivery processes for an exam series.
Exams Administration
Information and resources for exams officers to plan ahead and stay on track throughout the whole exams lifecycle, from entries to results day.
Before submitting marks and grades
- NEA advisers
- AQA led teacher online standardisation (T-OLS)
- AQA led face-to-face teacher standardisation
- Check whether T-OLS is available for your subject
- Standardisation within schools (Internal standardisation)
- Applying for centre consortium arrangements
- Exemption from an assessment (eg due to a disability)
- Informing students of their centre-assessed marks
Submit marks and grades
- Dates and deadlines for submitting marks/grades
- Mark inputting accuracy
- Submit marks/grades in Centre marks submission (CMS)
- Submit marks/grades by Electronic Data Interchange (EDI)
- Submit PE spreadsheets
- Carry forward
- Carry forward GCSE English Language and A-level Science endorsements from other exam boards
- Lost or damaged work NEA
Providing evidence for moderation
- Whose work to submit
- Centre selected samples
- GCSE English Language, Spoken Language Endorsement (8700/C)
- OxfordAQA International GCSE English Language, Spoken Language Endorsement (9270/S)
- Exemptions from submitting AV evidence
- Deadlines for submitting samples
Candidate record forms and centre declaration sheets
Centre Assessment Standards Scrutiny (CASS)
From 1 September 2021, Ofqual required all awarding organisations (AOs) to follow the same standard of Centre Assessment Standards Scrutiny (CASS). This new terminology covers the ways in which we quality assure assessment decisions made by centres, for example in the marking of non-exam assessment (NEA) tasks.
We will meet Ofqual’s CASS requirements through our NEA moderation process. As an AQA centre we will not require you to change your approach to NEA tasks as a result of the new CASS requirements.