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National Reference Test: information

Information about the National Reference Test being used by Ofqual to support the awarding of GCSEs in England.

From:
Ofqual
Published:
2 September 2016
Last updated:
20 August 2026 — See all updates

You can also see blog posts on the National Reference Test at The Ofqual Blog.

Documents

News stories

Updates to this page

Last updated:
20 August 2026
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  1. Added the National Reference Test in 2026 to the collection.

  2. Added 'National Reference Test in 2025'

  3. Added "National Reference Test - Information for Schools"

  4. Added "The National Reference Test in 2024".

  5. Added 'National Reference Test 2024 - information for schools' to the document collection page.

  6. Added the 2022 National Reference Test documents to the collection.

  7. Added 'The National Reference Test in 2021' documents and 'Ofqual publishes NRT results and contextual analysis 2021' to the document collection.

  8. Updated to include the 2021 information for schools and remove the 2020 information for schools

  9. Updating the document collection to include the National Reference Test documents for 2020.

  10. Added the document 'Contextual information about the National Reference Test'.

  11. News stories are grouped under new heading, board papers and postcards removed from document collection.

  12. Addition of 'National Reference Test 2020 - Information for schools' document

  13. Addition of NRT 2019 documents

  14. Added NRT documents relating to the 2018 test.

  15. NRT privacy notice added

  16. Added a link to the July 2017 board papers which contain the National Reference Test Annual Report.

  17. Added 'The National Reference Test 2017'.

  18. Added a document to the collection: 2017 National Reference Test successfully completed.

  19. First published.

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