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SQA News 10 October 2024

Modern Studies - updated documents

We’ve updated the course specifications for National 5 and Higher Modern Studies, the coursework assessment tasks for National 5, Higher and Advanced Higher Modern Studies, and the specimen question paper 2 for Higher Modern Studies.

National 5 and Higher course specifications and coursework assessment tasks

We’ve removed the wording around the penalty for non-submission of a research sheet as this will no longer apply.

Higher course specification

We’ve updated the ‘Further guidance for course assessment’ section in ‘Appendix 1: course support notes’.

Higher specimen question paper 2

We’ve made minor amendments to the general marking instructions for clarification.

Advanced Higher coursework assessment task

We’ve made minor amendments to the detailed marking instructions for clarification.

Additional changes

We’ve also made some formatting changes to the tables in the course specification and coursework assessment task documents in line with current accessibility guidelines. 

About post-exam diet changes to documents

It’s normal practice for SQA to review course materials after the marking of exams and coursework is complete.

During marking, our exam teams sometimes identify minor corrections, or areas of the published marking instructions and instructions for candidates that could be made clearer.