The Level 3 Certificate in Sustainability is a unitised qualification. This page describes the entries you need to make.

You register students for the subject, ie 'Sustainability'. 

Students must only be registered for each subject once. You do not need to register them each academic year. 

There is no final deadline for registrations. However, you must register your students before you make any examined or NEA unit entries. 

You can make your registrations via A2C using basedata, or via our secure website, Interchange. 

If you are making your entries via A2C, registration and unit entries are submitted in separate entry files. Registrations are made using 'annual' basedata which is separate to the exam and NEA unit basedata issued for each series.

We will release registration basedata each September. This will use the September series (09) and board identifier 01 (OCR). All registrations made during an academic year will use this 'annual' basedata.

You must make unit entries for the series the student will be taking the assessment: 

• Examined units – The examined unit is available every January and June series. 
• NEA units – There are two moderation windows each academic year. 
  • Moderation window 1 entries are made in the February series 
  • Moderation window 2 entries are made in the June series.

All unit entries must be made by the relevant deadline for the series – see the key dates. 

There is a single entry code for the NEA unit. You do not need to tell us when making NEA unit entries the method of moderation (visit or virtual visit). Teachers will specify the method of moderation when requesting a visit.

The certification entry (also known as ‘cashing-in’) lets us know the student is ready to complete their qualification and needs an overall qualification result. 

You must make the certification entry in the student’s final series (which could be the January, February or June series) by the relevant unit entry deadline for the series. 

To be eligible to a receive a qualification result, the student must have been entered for both units required for the qualification, either in a previous series or in the same series as certification. When you make certification entries, we will let you know if any students do not have enough units/unit entries to receive a qualification result. 

Certification entries are always in the format 'Hxxx', ie H082.