All non-examined assessment (NEA) units are assessed using a Cambridge OCR-set assignment. 

New set assignments are published each year on 1 June on Teach Cambridge. These assignments are live for two years. 

The live assessment dates are shown on the front cover of each assignment – centres must not start delivering assignments until the live assessment period starts. 

Assignments must be completed under teacher supervision, unless the assessment guidance states otherwise.

When you submit work for moderation, you must make sure it is based on an assignment that is live for that series.

Centres should mark each piece of work according to the instructions and criteria provided in the specification for each unit. The total number of criteria achieved for each unit is the ‘raw mark’. 

Optional unit recording sheets are available to help you mark and administer candidate work. 

You can download all the forms from Teach Cambridge.

Each candidate must sign a declaration before submitting their work to their teacher to confirm the work is their own and any assistance given and/or sources used have been acknowledged. A sample can be downloaded below.

It is the responsibility of centres to ensure every candidate does this.

These statements should be retained within the centre until all reviews of results, malpractice and appeals issues have been resolved.

A mark of zero must be recorded if a candidate cannot confirm the authenticity of their work.

Teachers are required to declare the work submitted for internal assessment is the candidate's own work by completing a centre authentication form (CCS160) for each unit. These should be kept within the centre until all reviews of results, malpractice and appeals have been resolved. This is also a requirement for private candidates.

Centres must carry out internal standardisation to ensure marks awarded by different teachers are accurate and consistent across all candidates entered for the unit from that centre. See our guide for more details.

If centres are working together in a consortium, you must carry out internal standardisation of marking across the consortium.

You must ensure marks for all candidates, not just those in the sample, are checked for both addition and transcription errors before submission.

Before you submit your centre marks to us, you need to inform students of their centre-assessed marks and provide enough time for them to appeal these marks. 

You must also allow sufficient time for the review to be carried out, to make any necessary changes to marks and to inform the candidate of the outcome before the mark submission deadline. 

There's more information on the JCQ website, including a suggested template to use.