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All non-examined assessment (NEA) units are assessed using a Cambridge OCR-set assignment:
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 the 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 an authentication form before submitting their work to their teacher. By signing the form, they declare the work is their own and any assistance given and/or sources used have been acknowledged.
It is the centre’s responsibility to make sure every candidate does this.
Teachers must also sign the authentication form for each candidate to declare the work submitted is the candidate’s own. This is also a requirement for private candidates.
New for 2026/27: The candidate and teacher authentication form replaces the separate candidate authentication statement and centre authentication form. Teachers now sign one form per candidate, rather than one centre authentication form for each unit or component.
Centres must retain authentication forms until all reviews of results, malpractice investigations and appeals have been resolved.
A mark of zero must be recorded if a candidate cannot confirm the authenticity of their work.
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.