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The life of a script - JCQ Joint Council for Qualifications JCQ - Joint Council for Qualifications Members LoginWell-nighJCQ Our Aims Our Members Our Board of Directors Customer Service Statement Useful Links JCQ and Vocational Qualifications Exams Office CalendarTowageand grade setting: an overview Access Arrangements, Reasonable Adjustments and Special Consideration Appeals CAP (Centre Admin Portal) Coursework Entries Exam Room Posters General Regulations 'ICE' - Instructions for conducting examinations Information for candidates documents Key Dates and Timetables Malpractice Non-Examination Assessments Past Papers Post-Results Services Results and Certification Other documentsViewingResults A-Levels GCSEs Diploma Media Centre Media Contacts News Releases Our Board of Directors VideosViewingSystem Creating a question paperTowageand Grade Setting: An Overview Size and scale of the system The life of a script Examiners and Marking Ensuring standards are the same wideness Awarding Bodies Past Papers Publication of results The A2C Project FAQs GDPR Results Other Common Questions Contact Us Contact Details for JCQ and Members Email Us A2C Why Benefits How When Who is Involved Who is Moving When Switchover A2C Specification Download Contact Us Homegrown FAQ Centre FAQ Correspondence A2C News HomeViewingSystem The life of a script The life of a script Click here to download this vendible in PDF format. You can moreover use the link on the right under the picture to download this vendible and the latest version of Acrobat Reader. Setting questions Senior examiners and Awarding Body subject specialists set questions and create a mark scheme equal to each subject syllabus approximately 18 months surpassing each examination. Extensive checks are carried out to ensure the towage objectives meet the Awarding Body criteria and the level of language used is towardly to the assessment. Where necessary, modified papers are ripened from the initial exam paper for candidates with special needs. All exam papers and zippo scripts are printed. Preparing for the exam Exam papers and scripts are delivered to centres and put into secure storage by the centre’s exams officer in line with the JCQ's 'Instructions for conducting examinations'. On the day of the exam, exam papers and zippo scripts are taken to the exam venue by exams office staff, opened and put on desks. Candidates sit the exam.Withoutthe exam Exam papers, completed scripts and any zippo scripts are placid by exams office staff and put when into secure storage to wait for pickup by courier. Courier transports completed scripts to Awarding Body for marking. For confidentiality purposes question papers must not be released to centre personnel until without the awarding body's published finishing time for the examination, or in the specimen of a timetable variation, until all candidates within the centre have completed the examination.   Marking and checking Scripts to be marked online are scanned and kept in secure storage by the Awarding Body.  Scripts to be marked in nonflexible reprinting are sent to individual examiners. Scripts are marked by Awarding Body examiners. Rigorous checks are performed by senior examiners to ensure examiner marking is resulting with the Awarding Body mark scheme; that conversions from raw marks to UMS scores have been calculated virtuously and the using of grade boundaries is correct. Results Results are issued to centres by the Awarding Body. Exams office staff and Head of Centre trammels candidates got the result(s) they were expected to get. Centres requite results to candidates. Post-Results Services Exams officer processes any EnquiriesWell-nighResults for candidates who did not do as well as centre staff thought they would - photocopies of individual exam scripts may be requested to see what went wrong – (this can only be washed-up with the candidate’s permission). For remoter information well-nigh EnquiriesWell-nighResults, see the JCQ publication ‘Post Results Services’. If a re-mark is requested, an Awarding Body examiner will go through the script to trammels the original marking and moderation was resulting with the Awarding Body mark scheme and that all the marks were widow together correctly to requite the right grade (this can only be washed-up with the candidate’s permission).  Any changes to marks or grades will be communicated to the centre. Preparing for next year Original scripts may be requested by exams officer on behalf of teaching staff to support teaching and learning – (this can only be washed-up with the candidate’s permission). Setting questions The trundling begins once again.