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 (April 2024)

Below you’ll find your monthly update for April 2024, including key upcoming dates for your diary for reasonable adjustments, post-results and assessment and delivery support, and more.

Important reminders

Have your say – V Certs

To continue to improve our support package, we need your feedback on our tutor guidance for the NCFE Level 1/2 Technical Awards. Have your say in our short survey before 12 April.

Model 5 (NEW) V Cert assessment support

We wanted to remind you of some key dates and guidance for our Level 1/2 Technical Awards.

Tuesday 30 April is the deadline for:

• registering learners for both the NEA (non-examined assessment) and external assessment (EA), and deciding whether you’d like to sit the EA online or paper-based
• the submission of learner marks for the NEA.

Friday 3 May (23:59pm) is the deadline for:

• uploading evidence for all learners of cohorts with 15 or less.
• uploading evidence for all learners on your sampling plan for the NEA (if you have a cohort of 16 or more learners).

Visit our V Cert assessment support webpage for more information on
everything we have in place to support you and your learners throughout V Cert assessments. You can also take a look at our V Cert FAQs.

Important information on Model 4 V Cert internal assessments

We wanted to share information about booking your learners onto the Model 4 V Certs non-examined assessment, withdrawing learners and upcoming submission dates. Please note that Model 4 V Certs require an external quality assurance review (Model 5 V Certs don’t require EQA reviews). Find out more.

Upcoming events

Education and Early Years teaching assistant forum events
Our free TA forum events offer interactive CPD opportunities, to help teaching assistants to build on their existing knowledge and skills in supporting children and young people within teaching and learning environments. Sign up for the next event on Thursday 2 May which will focus on supporting literacy skills.

Sign your learners up for our first Health student conference
Taking place on 25 June from 10am-12pm, our first Health student conference will focus on ‘Digital Healthcare Revolution: Transforming Healthcare with Technology’. Your students will delve into the dynamic realm of technology in healthcare, with a special emphasis on the healthcare landscape, and how healthcare professionals are using technology to enhance patient outcomes. Sign up now.

What you need to know for the T Level autumn assessment series

To help you prepare for your students sitting the core exams in the autumn assessment series, we're sharing some useful reminders to help ensure these assessments go smoothly, including how to disable AI tools during assessments. Find out more.

Bite-size videos to support you

We’ll be creating a series of bite-size videos, some of which are already available on our YouTube channel, detailing some of the common themes or areas of difficulty, and will also provide updates to our Portal User Guide, accordingly.

Supporting administration staff

In acknowledgement of the high turnaround of centre staff dealing with NCFE’s administrative assessment processes, we would request that any centre with new or inexperienced staff, who may require support in enacting any of our Portal-related activities, contact [email protected], where one of the team will be glad to help signpost, integrate or demonstrate these processes directly.