{"id":4374,"date":"2020-03-06T15:26:26","date_gmt":"2020-03-06T15:26:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/st\/balfronhighschool\/?page_id=4374"},"modified":"2023-11-22T12:27:59","modified_gmt":"2023-11-22T12:27:59","slug":"additional-assessment-arrangements","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/st\/balfronhighschool\/additional-assessment-arrangements\/","title":{"rendered":"Additional Assessment Arrangements"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The AAA policy outlines arrangements for those young people with additional support needs: \u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/st\/public\/balfronhighschool\/uploads\/sites\/3190\/2023\/11\/22122713\/BHS-Policy-QA-of-AAA-Website-edited-November-2023.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Additional Assessment Arrangements<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><strong>Digital Question Papers<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Balfron High School supports and promotes the use of Digital Question Papers for Prelim &amp; SQA Main Diet Exams.\u00a0 However, it is very important that candidates have practised using DQPs in advance of the Prelim and SQA Exams.\u00a0 We use Adobe Reader on a Windows PC for all Prelim &amp; SQA Exams. \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sqa.org.uk\/sqa\/30030.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Use this link to download DQP Past Papers on your Windows PC\/laptop or Apple Mac.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><strong>Use of a Digital Reader<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>For candidates with very specific Additional Assessment Arrangements, a digital reader may be allowed in an SQA Exam.\u00a0 In these cases, Balfron High School supports and promotes the use of &#8220;Natural Reader&#8221; for Prelim &amp; SQA Main Diet Exams.\u00a0 Again, it is very important that candidates have practised using Natural Reader in advance of the Prelim and SQA Exams.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.naturalreaders.com\/software.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Use this link to download Natural Reader <\/a>and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thescottishvoice.org.uk\/home\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">use this link to download the additional voices<\/a> for your Windows PC\/laptop or Apple Mac.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The AAA policy outlines arrangements for those young people with additional support needs: \u00a0\u00a0Additional Assessment Arrangements Digital Question Papers Balfron High School supports and promotes the use of Digital Question Papers for Prelim &amp; SQA Main Diet Exams.\u00a0 However, it is very important that candidates have practised using DQPs in advance of the Prelim and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/st\/balfronhighschool\/additional-assessment-arrangements\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Additional Assessment Arrangements<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1794,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4374","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/st\/balfronhighschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/st\/balfronhighschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/st\/balfronhighschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/st\/balfronhighschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/st\/balfronhighschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4374"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/st\/balfronhighschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4374\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5086,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/st\/balfronhighschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4374\/revisions\/5086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/st\/balfronhighschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}