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SQA News 13 June 2024

National Qualifications - Updated documents for session 2024-25 onwards

We’ve updated course specifications, coursework assessment tasks, course and unit support notes, unit specifications and some unit assessment support packs for a small number of courses and freestanding units where we’ve made changes for session 2024-25 onwards.

The following updated documents are now available from our NQ subject web pages at www.sqa.org.uk/nqsubjects, where you'll also find more information on the changes we've made to the documets.

All remaining documents, including assessment support materials, will be available by the end of August.

Administration and IT

The updated course and unit support notes, and unit assessment support packs, will be available by the end of August.

Visit the NQ Administration and IT web page.

Art and Design

The updated specimen question paper will be available by the end of August.

Visit the NQ Art and Design web page.

Business Management

Visit the NQ Business Management web page.

Classical Studies

The National 3 and National 4 unit assessment support packs, and the National 5 and Advanced Higher coursework assessment tasks, will be available by the end of August.

Visit the NQ Classical Studies web page.

Economics

Visit the NQ Economics web page.

English

Visit the NQ English web page.

Geography

The updated National 3 and National 4 unit assessment support packs, and National 4 course and unit support notes, will be available by the end of August. We’ll publish the Gaelic translations of the Higher course specification in due course. 

Visit the NQ Geography web page.

History

We’ll publish the Gaelic translation of the Higher course specification in due course.

Visit the NQ History web page.         

Physical Education

Visit the NQ Physical Education web page.

Practical Electronics

Visit the National 4 Practical Electronics web page.

Accessing the documents

You can access the updated documents from the NQ web pages for each subject at www.sqa.org.uk/nqsubjects. We've provided links to each web page, above.

We’ve added temporary subheadings to the document tabs on each web page, to distinguish between the updated documents (session 2024-25 onwards) and the current versions (session 2023-24).

Please use the updated versions with your learners from session 2024-25. We’ll remove the current versions after the appeals service has closed.