Each submission, including preparatory work, must be authenticated as the candidate’s own and having been completed in the allocated time.
For more information, see the non-exam assessment page.
Centres must keep all candidates’ work until results are released.
Once you have submitted your internal assessment marks your allocated moderator will contact you to let you know the date and time of their visit. They will also send you details of the sample required.
As part of our quality checks, a team leader or senior moderator may accompany your moderator on their visit. If this happens, additional candidate work may be selected for training and educational purposes. Only one unit/component of work per candidate will be chosen and this will be collected by a courier. Your moderator can provide you with further guidance on what steps you need to take.
In readiness for your visit, please ensure that candidate work is set out in rank order, by individual unit/component.
Entry Level is moderated remotely, which means you will send your sample of student work to OCR to be moderated. This can be done either by submitting an electronic portfolio via Submit for Assessment or by posting student work to the moderating team.
Once you have submitted your internal assessment marks you will be sent details of the sample required.
Submit for Assessment
The work in the selected sample must be photographed and saved in an appropriate format. Individual candidates work must be clearly identified and separated by component. More information on preparing candidate work for submission via Submit for Assessment is available on our website.
Postal moderation
You will be sent the relevant information on where to post your work before the submission date. Work can either be photographed or you can send actual student work. We would recommend large or fragile pieces are photographed and then included in the portfolio. All work must be clearly identified by candidate and component.
Your moderator will let us know the outcome of your moderation and you will receive a centre report from your moderator when results are issued.
Your centre report details your moderator's findings about the sample, any observations and scaling, the moderation display, and the overall trend within your centre. It also contains details about support we can provide.
If you are unhappy with the outcome of your moderation you may request a Service 3 post-results moderation review.
