Assessment Timetable Consultation 2024/25 and 2025/26 

We’d like your feedback on our proposed Assessment Timetable for 2024-25 and 2025-26, for which the deadline for submission of responses is 14 June 2024. Following this, we’ll review your comments and publish a narrative response to queries and feedback, before confirming a final version by 1 July 2024. 

To support you to understand some of the changes and additions to this version, as well as addressing some areas of previous feedback received, we’ve provided the following guidance for you to consider prior to reviewing and submitting feedback. 

Process and work to this point 

• We’ve worked with other awarding organisations offering similarly structured assessments to ensure that assessment set date and time assessments avoid overlap as far as possible. 
• The Assessment Timetable is published two years in advance, whereas the GCSE and A Level timetable is published only one year in advance. Therefore, we’re aware there may be some clashes between our assessments and GCSE and A Levels but will manage these where possible through existing regulation allowances and assessment variation requests if needed. Please note that, where relevant, summer 2025 date changes, in addition to final assessment opportunities, have been referenced as appropriate throughout this consultation document. 
• For the first time we have included deadline and narrative information relating for the non-examination component, where appropriate, for selected qualifications in scope (V-Cert qualification suite). 
• We have intentionally avoided scheduling paper-based assessments for the days immediately following the half-term holiday in May, to minimise issues relating to the delivery of assessment papers. 

Who can respond? 

Your feedback is valuable to us, so we encourage all current, approved V-Cert and CACHE centres to review the proposed Assessment Timetable and submit a response.  

How can I respond? 

Please review the proposed Assessment Timetable for 2024-25 and 2025-26, and then complete this form with all feedback. The deadline for feedback is 14 June 2024.