Research and analysis

Ofqual reports and research 2019

Our reports relating to GCSEs & A levels taken in summer 2019, the delivery of vocational & technical qualifications, and standards in these qualifications.

Documents

GCSE, AS & A level Summer Report 2019

Infographic: Summer exam series 2019

Delivery of vocational & technical qualifications in performance tables 2019

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Maintaining Standards in Summer 2019

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Details

The summer report provides a general overview of the summer GCSE, AS and A level exams in England. There is an infographic to give an overview of the data from this summer’s exams.

The delivery of vocational & technical qualifications report sets out some context to the market for performance table qualifications. It also records our approach to monitoring the delivery of assessments and comparing trends and themes in issues reported to us over the last two academic years.

Our standards report explains the work we do to make sure that standards are set and maintained appropriately, and also includes summaries of our work to incorporate more reliable examiner judgements into the decisions about where grade boundaries are set, and analysis to provide context to the National Reference Test results. It also reports on particular cases from the summer, including in relation to A level maths, the predictions used for AS, and grade point thresholds in the first awards of some new BTECs.

Links to other reports and analyses discussed in these reports are available here.

Published 13 December 2019