When making your entries (and any resit entries), it’s essential you plan carefully, taking the entry and certification rules into consideration.

Cambridge Advanced Nationals are unitised, series-based qualifications. Each qualification consists of a combination of examined and non-examined assessment (NEA) units.

You will need to check unit combinations are valid using the entry codes booklet.

You must make an entry for each of these units in the series they are taken, in January (examined units), February (NEA units) or June (all units). 

Before you can make a unit entry, the student must have a registration. 

You must make a certification entry in the final series, sometimes referred to as ‘cashing-in’. 

If the certification entry is not made before results are issued, centres may use the post-results late certification process.

A terminal assessment rule or terminal rule does not apply to Cambridge Advanced Nationals. 

For Cambridge Advanced Nationals, candidates may certificate for qualifications of different sizes in the same series, or they may certificate for a qualification of one size and later certificate for a larger qualification, with the units used towards the first qualification being reused towards the subsequent qualification(s).

The following rules apply:

• Students may resit each examined unit twice. This means they can have three attempts in total at each examined unit. 
• Where an examined unit is included in several sizes of qualification, students may have a total of three exam attempts for this unit across the qualifications. 
• When a candidate resits an examined unit, the best result is used towards the final grade.

Being absent from an examined unit is not classed as an attempt but you will need to make another examined unit entry when entering again in a later series. There will be a charge for this unless candidates are withdrawn on medical grounds or following bereavement – we will refund these entry fees if they are withdrawn up to one week before the results publication date.

Students can take the NEA units multiple times. However, please note the following:

• Cambridge OCR-set assignments are live for two years. 
• There is one resubmission opportunity for each NEA assignment. 
• If you have submitted the same assignment twice for a student, they will need to use the next live assignment for any further reattempt and resubmission. 
• Where appropriate, students may rework earlier evidence for any new live assignment task. This should only be allowed if the original work is relevant to the new task. 
• Students can only resubmit work using the same assignment if the assignment is still live. The live assessment dates and intended cohort will be shown on the front cover of the assignment.
• Where a candidate has taken a NEA unit multiple times, the best result is used towards the final grade.