National Qualifications – What You Need To Know

Please click here to access an information booklet from the SQA entitled National Qualifications – What you need to know.

The booklet outlines the Alternative Certification Model  created by the National Qualifications Group in order to deliver results for young people undertaking National 5, Higher and Advanced Higher courses in session 20-21.

This year teachers are asked to use the assessments that young people undertake as evidence to decide on provisional results.  This is referred to as using Demonstrated Attainment.

A strong set of checks will be done in school, across schools and nationally to support teachers’ decisions and this is called Quality Assurance.   Quality Assurance helps to make sure that results are decided consistently across the country.

There is also a video that explains the procedure and a section of the SQA website with more information which can be found at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zTrPgWF6dfo

Further information can be found at https://www.sqa.org.uk/sqa/84154.html

Kind regards

Mrs Cunningham