National 5: Practical Cookery

The alternative certification model is how National 5, Higher and Advanced Higher courses will be resulted this year, following the cancellation of the 2021 exams. It involves five different stages.

View the alternative certification model and see what will happen at each stage.

This explains the overall structure of the Course, including its purpose and aims and information on the skills, knowledge and understanding that will be developed.

• National 5 Practical Cookery Course Specification
  July 2019

National 5 Practical Cookery: Guidance on gathering key evidence for producing estimates in session 2020-21 (145 KB)

This section provides information on marking instructions and/or the coursework assessment task(s). It includes information that centres need to administer coursework and must be read in conjunction with the course specification.

• Practical Cookery Assignment and Practical Activity Candidate Workbook for National 5 
  October 2019
• Practical Cookery Assignment and Practical Activity Candidate Workbook for National 5 (Google docs)
  October 2019
• Practical Cookery Assignment and Practical Activity Candidate Workbook for National 5 (for printing) 
  October 2019
• Specimen coursework assessment task for National 5 Practical Cookery
  July 2019

• Guidance on conditions of assessment
   

Information on the production and submission of SQA-assessed coursework for National 5, Higher and Advanced Higher.

• Coursework for External Assessment (261 KB)

• Webinar preparing assessment materials session 2020- 21 (34 minutes)  (42.16 MB)
• Session 2020-21 question paper setting grid (27 KB)
• Marking guidance - assignment 2018
• Marking guidance - assignment 2017
• Assignment - recording sheet
• General marking principles - practical activity  
• Practical activity - recording sheet

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Please note: For session 2020-21 there will be no external assessment for this course. However, the materials detailed below remain a useful illustration of the standards required. These should be viewed along with the National 5 to Advanced Higher Course information for 2020-21.

• Examples of candidate evidence with commentaries 

Further examples of candidate evidence and commentaries can be found on SQA¿s secure website and you can access these through your SQA co-ordinator.

Course assessment overview¿

• Video overview of course assessment from session 2017-18 (31 minutes)
• Overview of course assessment presentation with audio (11 minutes)
• Revised National 5 course assessment  (January 2018)

Changes to understanding standards materials

• Changes to published Understanding Standards materials for all subjects

Please note: Understanding Standards materials are regularly reviewed to ensure they remain up to date.

These reports provide information on the performance of candidates which it is hoped will be useful to teachers, lecturers and assessors in their preparation of candidates for future assessment.

Course Reports

• 2019 National 5 Practical Cookery Course Report September 2019
• 2018 National 5 Hospitality: Practical Cookery Course Report September 2018
• 2017 National 5 Hospitality: Practical Cookery Course Report October 2017

Verification Reports

• Practical Cookery Verification Key Messages Round 2
  June 2017
• Practical Cookery Verification Key Messages Round 1
  March 2017

Additional CPD support

Where any particular areas of concern are identified, which are not addressed by our Understanding Standards events or support materials, we will offer free continuing professional development (CPD) training, subject to request. CPD support is subject-specific and can be tailored to cover one or more qualification level. To find out more about this service visit our CPD page.