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Life and Living Skills are on-demand, portfolio-based qualifications, which can take place at any time at a centre’s request.
The candidate work is then submitted to be moderated by a Cambridge OCR examiner-moderator.
Once you have made your entries, you can carry out the assessment. Information about the assessment can be found in the centre handbook, which is available from the qualification page.
Once your candidates have completed units of the qualification, you can claim for their unit or full awards by making a claim via Interchange.
There are no specific deadlines for making certification claims; however, you must only make claims when you are confident the requirements for the unit have been met.
Step-by-step instructions for making a claim are provided in the following guide:
Centres must clarify any assessment queries with Cambridge OCR before making claims.
The moderation process must not be used as a way to obtain a second opinion on assessment decisions.
Within 24 hours of submitting your claim, you need to send the candidate work for all the candidates for whom you have made a claim to your examiner-moderator.
There are a number of methods for submitting your work:
Your Cambridge OCR examiner-moderator will confirm or edit the claim as appropriate. They will then send it to Cambridge OCR to process and you will get an email to say the claim has been sent to Cambridge OCR.
To view the actual claims sent:
As part of our work to increase our security arrangements, we’ve added two-factor authentication (2FA) to our secure website, Interchange. This means we’ve changed the way you log into Interchange. For more information, see our Interchange page.
Once moderation is complete, the examiner-moderator will produce a centre feedback report for each batch of work submitted. This form is a multi-purpose document which is used to:
To view the report, log in to Interchange, hover over ‘Centre information’ and then click on ‘Examiner-moderator reports’.
If the examiner-moderator finds the standard of centre assessment is not consistent enough to ensure sample moderation will be successful, the claim will be withdrawn. The centre assessor will then be responsible for re-assessing the work before re-submitting the claim.
Feedback reports are not available via Interchange for claims that have been withdrawn completely. However, we will email a copy of the report to the designated contact in the centre (usually the exams officer).