ACCESS ARRANGEMENT
November 2020-2021
What are Access Arrangements?
These are arrangements for instance extra time, reader or scribe. These are put in place to make sure that all students have a ‘level playing field’ when sitting examinations. Access arrangements fall into two distinct categories: some arrangements are delegated to centres; others require prior approval from either JCQ and/or other regulators including CIE and IB, depending on the student concerned. Access arrangements allow candidates/learners with special educational needs, disabilities or temporary injuries to access the assessment without changing the demands of the assessment or compromising the standards being tested, so that the candidate can be recognised for their attainment. Examples of access arrangements include readers, scribes, Braille question papers, extra time, Bilingual translation dictionaries for some examinations or modified papers (e.g. coloured/enlarged paper). In this way Awarding Bodies will comply with the duty of the Equality. Prompter: where a student has little sense of time or loses concentration easily, a trained adult can prompt them with a few permitted phrases to refocus, move the student on to the next question or indicate how much time is left.
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