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  • Closed consultation General certificate of secondary education (GCSE) grading

    Topics:
    • Curriculum and learning, 
    • Curriculum and assessment

    Consultation closed Consultation opened 23 March 2015, 9.00 am and closed 19 June 2015, 5.00 pm

    Summary

    This consultation is intended to seek views on a potential change of grading from the current alphabetic grades A* to G, to numeric grades 9 to 1 for GCSE specifications produced by the Council for the Curriculum, Examinations and Assessment (CCEA).

    Documents

    • Consultation document Adobe PDF (92 KB)
    • Consultation document Adobe PDF (99 KB)
    • Young people's version Adobe PDF (1 MB)
    • Response booklet Adobe PDF (99 KB)
    • Response booklet Adobe PDF (101 KB)

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    Consultation description

    The consultation will run from 23 March 2015 to 19 June 2015. Copies of the consultation document, response booklet and young person's version can be viewed using the above links.

    To obtain hard copies, or if you require these documents in other formats (such as microsoft word, large print, braille, on audio cassette, easy read or on computer disk) and/or other languages, contact the Assessment and qualifications team

    Ways to respond

    Consultation closed — responses are no longer being accepted.

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