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The JCQ Access Arrangements Online portal has been extended to enable you to apply for consortium arrangements. The Centre Admin Portal (CAP) can be accessed via the Access arrangements link within Interchange. For more information about the CAP, see the JCQ website.

This section applies to centre-assessed work only.

Where candidates from different centres have been taught and assessed together, you need to let us know you need to be treated as a consortium so we can moderate the candidates as one group.

Each centre within the consortium makes their own entries, submits marks/grades for the centre-assessed work and receives results.

There will be a lead centre who delivers the assessment programme for the consortium.

Applying to become a centre consortium

To tell us about your consortium: 

  1. Nominate a consortium co-ordinator to liaise with us on behalf of your consortium. 
  2. Complete the centre consortium arrangements form within the JCQ Centre Admin Portal (CAP). To access the form, log in to Interchange, hover over ‘Access arrangements’ and then click on ‘Access arrangements’ again in the left-hand menu. 
  3. You need to complete a separate form each series by the following deadlines:

Series Deadline
November 1 October
January 31 October
June series 31 January

How the consortium will work

Once the form has been submitted by the co-ordinator, we will contact each centre individually to confirm their membership of the consortium. 

The consortium co-ordinator must make sure internal standardisation is carried out across the whole consortium. 

Sample requests will be sent to each entering centre. The consortium co-ordinator will be sent the details of the combined sample, showing which candidates are being selected from each centre.

For postal moderation, we recommend the consortium co-ordinator collates the samples from each centre to send to the moderator together. 

We will make sure candidates from each specification are treated as a single group for moderation.

Moderators will return all candidate work to the lead centre.

Results and post-results services

Moderator reports will be produced for the whole consortium. These will be available to download by each member of the consortium from Interchange (see our results report page).

Reviews of moderation must be submitted by the lead centre on behalf of the whole consortium (see the review of moderation page).

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