National 3 ESOL

Course Specification

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.

Unit Specifications

These provide an outline of what each Unit will cover within the following Unit Specifications and detail the Outcomes and Assessment Standards.

Course and Unit Support Notes

These provide advice and guidance for teachers/lecturers on learning, teaching and assessment within the Course and its Units.

Past Papers and Marking Instructions

Unit Assessment Support

These documents contain details of Unit assessment task(s), show approaches to gathering evidence and how the evidence can be judged against the Outcomes and Assessment Standards. Teachers/lecturers can arrange access to these confidential documents through their SQA Co-ordinator.

 

Verification and Course reports

Qualification Verification Summary Reports share messages from verification activity.

ESOL: Quality Assurance - external verification

Course support

National 3 Learning Support Material

SQA Academy resources 

Learning support materials and online learning resources

Understanding Standards

Examples of candidate evidence with commentaries

Examples of candidate evidence and commentaries for unit assessment can be found on the SQA Secure Site. You can access these through your SQA Coordinator.

Webinar (recordings)

A National 2, 3 and 4 Unit Webinar (recording 03 December 2024) has been published on the SQA Secure site (login required please access via your SQA coordinator)

National 2 - National 4 - progression through Unit levels December 2020 (1 hour)

National 3 and National 4 Units 10 November 2021

Assessing Units Online

Overview unit assessment from session 2019-20

Changes to Understanding Standards materials

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