NEA
Non-exam assessment (NEA)
These pages will walk you through the end-to-end NEA delivery processes for an exam series.
Before submitting marks and grades
- NEA advisers
- AQA led teacher online standardisation (T-OLS)
- AQA led face-to-face teacher standardisation
- Standardisation within schools (internal standardisation)
- Applying for centre consortium arrangements
- Exemptions 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
- Lost or damaged NEA
Providing evidence for moderation
- Whose work to submit
- Centre selected samples
- GCSE English Language, Spoken Language Endorsement (8700/C)
- Functional Skills English, Speaking Listening and Communicating (8720S, 8725S)
- OxfordAQA International GCSE English Language, Spoken Language Endorsement (9270/S)
- Exemptions from submitting AV evidence
- Deadlines for submitting samples
Submitting student samples
- What to send
- Where to send samples
- Uploading samples in Centre marks submission (CMS)
- Submitting files onDigital Media Submission Portal (DMP)
- Posting samples
- Visiting moderation
- Encrypting files for submission on USB memory sticks
How moderation works
- An explanation of how adjustments to marks are made
- Feedback forms
- Returning physical samples to schools
Candidate record forms and centre declaration sheets
- Candidate record forms 2024/25
- Candidate record forms 2025/26
- Centre Declarations
- NEA, fieldwork and live performance centre declaration form
- Performance duration declarations – Dance, Drama and Music
- Practical programming statement – GCSE Computer Science
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 processes, which are explained above. As an AQA centre we will not require you to change your approach to NEA tasks as a result of the new CASS requirements.