Area 1: Exams and Tests

• Well Prepared! Making exam papers work for learners with sight problems (2nd edition). This document assists teachers and support staff who produce curriculum and assessment materials for learners with a visual impairment and who apply for access arrangements for exams.
• RNIB: Access to exams and tests (External). Offers some key points to consider when entering a blind or partially sighted learner for external exams, plus a short film with staff and pupils of Tapton School in Sheffield to explain how access arrangements for GCSE exams work.
• JCQ: access arrangements and reasonable adjustments (External). Access Arrangements are pre-examination adjustments for candidates based on evidence of need and normal way of working. Access Arrangements fall into two distinct categories: some arrangements are delegated to centres, others require prior JCQ awarding body approval.
• GOV UK: Key Stage 1 Access Arrangements Guidance (External) Annual description of the legal adjustments that can be made to support pupils. Some pupils with specific needs may need additional arrangements so they can take part in key stage 1 tests.
• GOV UK: Key stage 2 tests: access arrangements (External). Guidance for schools about access arrangements available for pupils participating in 2022 key stage 2 national curriculum tests (commonly called SATs).
• NATSIP: Examination Access updated September 2020 (External).This guide to help teachers understand the key principles underpinning reasonable adjustments for public examinations and main access arrangements.
• CALL Scotland Adapted Digital Assessments (External). Focuses on the use of technology in Assessment and Access Arrangements.  Access Arrangements in Scotland  are the primary focus, but the site also includes some more general information, for example technology guidance applicable to the whole UK.

Downloadable Resources 

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