Exams officers
Here at NCFE, we know how vital exams officers are. Without you, it would be impossible to run and administer our exams successfully, so we work hard to make it easy for you to work with us.
On this page you’ll find all the key information to support you in your role, including timetables, a key dates calendar and FAQs, as well as monthly updates to ensure you’re kept up to date with any changes, events and training opportunities.
Your monthly update (June 2025)
Below you’ll find your monthly update for June 2025.
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T Levels
- View our latest T Level communications.
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V Certs
- View our latest V Cert service messages.
NCFE and JCQ – continued alignment
We’ve been a full member of JCQ for many years, and over the last several sessions we’ve adopted many of the JCQ assessment policies and approaches, including those relating to appeals, special considerations, and maladministration and malpractice.
From summer 2025, we’ll be fully adopting the JCQ Post Results Services booklet. Our previous NCFE equivalent was very closely aligned to these policies and approaches. Therefore, the new adoption will mean there will be very little noticeable difference to you. However, we believe this change will give you the confidence that the NCFE qualifications you deliver have services and standards on par with those offered for GCSEs and A Levels, and also will help alleviates the administrative burden of reviewing and maintaining two parallel documents.
From the 2025-26 session and beyond, we’re working on further alignment still, to give clearer and more consistent guidance to you, including plans to adopt the General Regulations, the Instructions for Conducting Examinations booklet, and the Access Arrangements and Reasonable Adjustments booklet. We’ll share more information with you over the coming months on the timelines and benefits.
Qualification updates and withdrawals
View this month’s Horizon update for the latest qualification changes and withdrawals.
You can find the upcoming post results deadlines for assessments for our CACHE and T Level qualifications in the Key Dates Schedule.
We understand that there are times when a student or provider feels that a result is at variance with their reasonable expectations. Therefore, there is a range of post-results options available to providers to support you and your students.
Requests for reviews of marking or access to scripts can be submitted by the provider on behalf of the student (with their consent), however before doing so, please ensure you’re familiar with our Enquiries about Results and Assessment Decisions Policy.
More information on post-results services can be found here.
Visit our assessment support page where you'll find everything you need to support you with assessment, including policies, forms and guidance on online assessment, remote invigilation, assessment and results queries, appeals, certificates, special considerations, access arrangements and reasonable adjustments, and much more.
Visit our delivery support page where we have over 1000 informative and engaging learning resources. Here, you'll find all you need to deliver our qualifications and support your learners.
View our Qualifications for Specific Delivery (QSID) document which provides qualification-specific instructions relating to the administration of external assessments for NCFE qualifications.
The Exams Office, in conjunction with their training partner Exams Training, offers a range of face-to-face training events delivered by industry experts, supported by high quality resources and held at 4/5-star venues across England. Events are available for:
- Exams officers
- Senior leaders/line managers
- Invigilators.
Learn more about how you can keep up to date with your training
If you require a reasonable adjustment submission and/or paper modification, please ensure they’re booked before the below deadlines:
- Reasonable adjustments (PDF requests, language modifiers and speech recognition): prior to the booking cut-off date
- Paper modifications (braille): 30 working days before the assessment
- Paper modifications (enlarged paper or coloured paper): 15 working days before the assessment
- Reasonable adjustments (practical assistant): one day prior to the assessment
- All other reasonable adjustments: up to the assessment date.
For more information on reasonable adjustments and how to submit an application, visit this page.
