SQA Advanced Qualifications updates
You can find updates to units and assessments on the Notification of Changes to SQA Advanced units and frameworks search.
Unit Specification updates
Financial Services Graded Unit 2 has been updated resulting in the unit being recoded. J02L 48 will finish on 30 July 2026 and is replaced by J8ME 48 (start date 1 August 2024). The updated unit has slight alterations to the marks allocated for each stage of the project. The stages are now awarded as 24 marks for planning, 54 marks for developing and 22 marks for evaluating. Centre staff must familiarise themselves with the revisions to the unit specification and the changes to mark allocations detailed in the Assessment Support Pack.
Centres that have started to deliver lapsing unit J02L 48 may continue to do so for this session. However, we encourage all centres who have yet to begin delivery to use J8ME 48.
- Project Management (J5FM 48) – ASP001 has been removed, it has been updated with minor changes to ASP002.
- Economic Issues: An Introduction (J461 47) – the standard completion time for the examination has been amended from 90 minutes to 100 minutes.
- Business with Accounting (GT35 48) – Association of Chartered Certified Accountants exemptions have been added to Appendix 3: Professional Body Recognition.
- Managing Database Systems Using SQL – (J8G9 47) has been added as an optional unit to the Group Award Computing (GM8K 47).