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Literacy and Numeracy: Curriculum for Excellence Management Board Update

SQA welcomes the Curriculum for Excellence Management Board's proposals for the formal recognition of literacy and numeracy through the new qualifications system.

Literacy and Numeracy: CfE Management Board Update


Deadline for MySQA exam results service looms

Students who want to receive their school exam results a day early only have a week left to register for their details with MySQA.

Deadline for MySQA exam results service looms


SVQ News Update

The latest edition of the SVQ News Update is now available, featuring a broad array of interesting articles submitted this quarter


Looking for Principal Assessor or Senior Verifier reports?

Principal Assessor reports for 2008 are now known as External Assessment reports, and Senior Verifier reports are now known as Internal Assessment reports.


Standard Grade Ready-reckoner

This Excel spreadsheet will calculate the overall Standard Grade award from the contributing element awards.  It will help centres to identify where an element upgrade would change the overall subject grade, as a result of a successful appeal.


SQA Accreditation Qualification Products Approval Process

From 1 April 2009 a new process was introduced to approve qualification products from Scotland.


Publication Sales and Downloads

This section of the website contains a comprehensive list of everything Scottish Qualifications Authority publish on paper, video and electronic formats (ie CD-ROM)


Replacement Certificate Service

SQA operates a service for the issue of replacement certificates. An online service is available for obtaining replacement certificates as well as a downloadable application form.


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