News

AQA asks students to help shape the future of exams

For the first time ever, we’re giving students the opportunity to help us make important decisions about the future of exams.

Ofqual action on AQA issues

Ofqual has made announcements about three separate AQA issues.

AQA leads education policy discussions at the party conferences

Education charity AQA attended the recent party conferences and led discussions on the future of education policy.

Step Up to English (5970) updated NEA tasks for 2019/20

Each year we replace our non-exam assessment (NEA) topics, one for each component, to the bank of externally-set tasks.

Middle East schools can benefit from UK education reforms

AQA’s Professor Toby Salt gave the opening address at a breakfast briefing in Dubai explaining the strengths of the UK’s reformed qualifications and their benefits to international schools.

GCSE sciences changes to specification for summer 2020 and 2021

English anthologies available now

English anthologies are available now.

A-level science practical endorsement: monitoring visits cycle 3

If your school/college is scheduled for a monitoring visit by us this academic year, your allocated adviser will be in touch in the coming weeks to make arrangements for monitoring. Initial visits will take place between October 2019 and March 2020.

GCSE Music (8271) additional specification changes for 2022

We’ve made a further change to the replacement study piece for Area of Study 4 in the GCSE Music specification. The change affects first teaching in September 2020 for exams in summer 2022.

GCSE History (8145) changes to specification for 2020 exams

We’re making some changes to the command word and stems to a number of GCSE History questions to make the demands of these questions clearer for all students.