Advanced Higher Statistics

• October 2019 subject update (148 KB)
• October 2018 subject update (261 KB)

National Course modification summary: Statistics 

Following the 2022 exam diet, SQA is updating course specifications and assessment support materials for some National Courses, to clarify some of the information for candidates, teachers, and lecturers. It is normal practice for us to review these materials after the exam diet concludes.

We have made a few changes to terminology within the Advanced Higher Statistics course specification and provided some additional information to support teachers and lecturers.

In the ‘Skills, knowledge and understanding for the course assessment’ section, we have updated the ‘Statistical inference’ table on page 6 to change the ‘parent population’ references to ‘population’.

In Appendix 2: skills, knowledge and understanding with suggested learning and teaching contexts, we have made the following updates to the ‘Statistical inference’ table:

• pages 24 and 26 – references to ‘parent population’ changed to ‘population’
• page 24 – supplementary information added to the suggested learning and teaching contexts for the 'Identifying and using appropriate random sampling methods’ skill
• page 25 – equations and descriptions corrected in the suggested learning and teaching contexts for the ‘Working with the distribution of sample means and sample proportions’ skill
• pages 27 and 28 – equations corrected and note added to the suggested learning and teaching contexts for the ‘Obtaining confidence intervals’ skill

The updated course specification is available below. Please use this latest version (dated August 2022).