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
- National 3 course specification
- National 3 unit specifications
- National 4 course specification
- National 4 added value unit specification
- National 4 unit specifications
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
- National 5 course specification
The updated specimen question paper will be available by the end of August.
Visit the NQ Art and Design web page.
Business Management
- National 5 course specification
- Advanced Higher course specification
Visit the NQ Business Management web page.
Classical Studies
- National 3 course specification
- National 4 course specification
- National 5 course specification
- Higher course specification
- Higher coursework assessment task
- Advanced Higher course specification
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
- National 5 course specification
- Higher course specification
- Advanced Higher course specification
Visit the NQ Economics web page.
English
- National 4 course specification
- National 4 course support notes
- National 4 added value unit specification
- National 4 added value unit assessment support pack (available from the SQA Secure website)
Visit the NQ English web page.
Geography
- National 3 course and unit support notes
- National 5 course specification
- National 5 course specification (Gaelic translation)
- National 5 coursework assessment task
- Higher course specification
- Higher coursework assessment task
- SCQF level 5 Global Issues unit specification
- SCQF level 5 Human Environments unit specification
- SCQF level 6 Global Issues unit specification
- SCQF level 6 Human Environments unit specification
- SCQF level 6 Physical Environments unit specification
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
- National 4 course specification
- National 5 course specification
- National 5 course specification (Gaelic translation)
- Higher course specification
- Advanced Higher course specification
- Advanced Higher course specification (Gaelic translation)
We’ll publish the Gaelic translation of the Higher course specification in due course.
Visit the NQ History web page.
Physical Education
- National 3 course and unit support notes
- National 4 course and unit support notes
- National 5 course specification
- National 5 performance assessment task
- Higher course specification
- Higher performance assessment task
- Advanced Higher course specification
- Advanced Higher performance assessment task
Visit the NQ Physical Education web page.
Practical Electronics
- National 4 course specification
- National 4 unit specification
- National 4 added value unit specification
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.