Quality assurance and appeals for Private Candidates

Quality assurance and appeals for Private Candidates from JCQ. We have taken the liberty of paraphrasing the QA.

Private Candidates’ results should be included in a centre’s internal quality assurance checks as far as possible, but they may need to be excluded from wider quality assurance exercises where, for example, their evidence base is different from the centre’s other students.

Private Candidates should also be excluded from any check using the centre’s historical data. Evidence to support Private Candidates’ grades may be reviewed during external quality assurance, but they will be treated separately in statistical analysis used to identify centres for checks. Private Candidates will not affect a centre’s published results or historical performance. For this reason, it is important that centres indicate which students are Private Candidates when entering them for qualifications, unless the candidate is primarily an internal candidate taking one or more additional non-taught subject.

Appeals for Private Candidates will follow the same process as for other students. More information on appeals will be provided in due course