Functional Skills

Why Functional Skills?

Functional Skills qualifications give learners useful, transferable skills in English, maths and ICT. Functional Skills help learners function more confidently, effectively and independently in their work, as well as life in general.

Flexible

We know how important flexibility is to you and that’s why our online and paper-based assessments have lots of flexibility. Our online assessments are available 24/7 and our paper-based exams can be taken five days before or five days after the scheduled assessment date!

Free

We offer lots of free support for you and your learners, including:

Webinars
Sample papers
Support from our dedicated curriculum team
External quality assurance visits
Resources
Access to Forskills Initial Assessment and Diagnostic tools.Certification claims processed within 24 hours.

Feedback

When mistakes are made, you need to know how to put them right, that’s why we offer 3 different kinds of feedback!

Rich feedback

This feedback is a detailed report that indicates the learner’s strengths, weaknesses, and suggested development areas. It includes recommendations for supportive resources and can be used for a cohort of leaners.

Compact feedback

This gives a succinct and clear high level breakdown of the assessment, mapped to the Coverage and Range statements (where possible). It uses feedback codes and a glossary and is available for individual learners. Available for individual learners.

Automated feedback

This service is automatic and available alongside level 1 and level 2 English and maths Functional Skills online assessments – and what’s more, it’s completely free!

Fast

Our service is super-fast which means you’re not left waiting around. With NCFE you’ll benefit from no marking windows, results in 6 days and certificates issued within 24 hours of your claim!