Welcome to your Maths Hub

Welcome pack - things you need to know

• Start Here

  

  First steps

  New to teaching AQA Mathematics or looking to build on your experience, this guidance brings together everything you need in one place. Access key information and resources through MyAQA, explore relevant professional development courses, and find the support you need to plan, teach, and assess with confidence.

• Step 1

  

  Get approved - get in touch

  To offer our qualifications, you’ll need to become an approved centre. If you’re already approved, skip over this section. If not, here’s how: let us know that you’d like to teach AQA qualifications by emailing centreapproval@aqa.org.uk

• Step 2

  

  Access training and support

  Our support package goes well beyond the specification and exam. We’re here to support and advise you throughout the exams’ lifecycle and we produce a range of tools, training materials and additional guidance – which we’re continually adding to

• Step 3

  

  Apply for access arrangements

  Adjustments that can be made to support a student with specific requirements in accessing an exam. These adjustments are called ‘reasonable adjustments’ and can include the use of assistive technology, breaks during an exam or specially adapted exam papers to support visual impairments

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  Make entries

  An entry is how a school or college lets us know which students, and how many, will sit which exams.

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  Carry out non-exam assessment (NEA)

  Non-exam assessment measures subject-specific skills which can’t always be tested by written exam papers. Most AQA Maths specifications don’t have an NEA component, but our Entry Level Certificate (ELC) does.

• Step 6

  

  Conduct exams

  Prepare for exam season with our video on planning and conducting exams, including invigilation and what to do if the unexpected happens

• Step 7

  

  Receive results

  We’ll issue results on the published day. The results days page of our website lets you know what’s available when. We also have a student page for students, parents and other candidates.

• Step 8

  

  Review results

  If you have questions about a student’s results or if you’re unhappy with it – or one of your students doesn’t have a result – then you can use on

• Step 9

  

  Receive certificates

  We send your exam certificates to you three months after results day. These show the final, confirmed results. Check you have all the certificates and give them to students as soon as possible