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All non-examined assessment (NEA) units are assessed using an Cambridge OCR-set assignment. These are available from our secure website for teachers, Teach Cambridge.
The Cambridge OCR-set assignments are available from 1 June for submission in the following January and June series. Assignments are replaced each year. Note: Assignments for Sport Studies unit R185 and Enterprise and Marketing unit R069 are replaced each year but the tasks do not change. The live assessment dates will always be shown on the front cover of the assignment.
When you submit work for moderation, you must make sure it is based on the assignment that is live for that series.
If your students face unexpected disruption when completing their NEA assignments, we have measures to support your students:
Centres should mark each piece of work according to the instructions and criteria provided in the specification for each component or unit.
Forms to help you mark and administer candidate work – many of them interactive – are provided.
These may be called a cover sheet, a unit recording sheet or centre assessment form depending on the specification.
You can download all the forms from the submission requirements page (they are also available from Teach Cambridge).
Complete one per candidate and attach it to the front of their work.
A mark of zero must be recorded if a candidate cannot confirm the authenticity of their work.
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.
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.
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 endorsement grades) 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.