Summary of changes to AS and A levels from 2015
Updated 5 June 2018
Applies to England
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1. Taught from 2015
The following subjects will be first awarded in 2016 for AS and 2017 for A level.
2. Taught from 2016
The following subjects will be first awarded in 2017 for AS and 2018 for A level.
3. Taught from 2017
The following subjects will be first awarded in 2018 for AS and 2019 for A level.
4. Taught from 2018
The following subjects will be first awarded in 2019 for AS and 2020 for A level.
| Subject | Non-exam assessment | Consultations and decisions | Final rules | Accredited specifications | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Biblical Hebrew | AS level: none[footnote 1] A level: none[footnote 1] |
Conditions & guidance | Subject content (DfE) | ||
| Modern foreign languages (Arabic, Bengali, Gujarati, Greek, modern Hebrew, Japanese, Panjabi, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Turkish, Urdu) | AS level: none[footnote 1] A level: none[footnote 1] |
Subject content (DfE) Assessment arrangments Conditions & guidance |
Subject content (DfE) |
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Unchanged from legacy qualifications ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7 ↩8 ↩9 ↩10 ↩11 ↩12 ↩13 ↩14 ↩15 ↩16 ↩17 ↩18 ↩19 ↩20 ↩21 ↩22 ↩23 ↩24 ↩25 ↩26 ↩27 ↩28 ↩29 ↩30 ↩31 ↩32 ↩33 ↩34 ↩35 ↩36 ↩37 ↩38 ↩39 ↩40 ↩41 ↩42 ↩43 ↩44
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Our legacy rules require at least 20%; all legacy qualifications use 20% ↩ ↩2 ↩3
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Our legacy rules permit 15% to 40%, all legacy qualifications use 40% ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6
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Our legacy rules require 15% to 20%; all legacy qualifications use 20% ↩
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Legacy qualifications use 60% ↩
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Legacy qualifications use 55% ↩
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Legacy qualifications use between 40% and 100% (they all include the maximum permitted 40% controlled assessment; one includes a further externally-assessed performance, which is also a form of non-exam assessment) ↩
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Legacy qualifications use between 40% and 70% (they all include the maximum permitted 40% controlled assessment; one includes a further externally-assessed performance, which is also a form of non-exam assessment) ↩
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Legacy qualifications use between 30% and 40% ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7 ↩8 ↩9 ↩10 ↩11 ↩12
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Legacy qualifications do not include non-exam assessment ↩
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Legacy qualifications use between 60% and 70% (assessment approaches vary, but both controlled assessment units, and externally-assessed performance/composition units are forms of non-exam assessment) ↩ ↩2
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Our legacy rules permit 30% to 50%; all legacy qualifications use at least 40% ↩ ↩2
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Our legacy rules permit 30% to 60%; all legacy qualifications use at least 50% ↩ ↩2
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Legacy qualifications use between 40% and 50% ↩
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Legacy qualifications use between 45% and 50% ↩
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Our legacy rules permit 40% to 50%; all legacy qualifications use 50% ↩ ↩2
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Legacy qualifications use 70% (although all units are externally assessed, all but one are forms of non-exam assessment) ↩
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Legacy qualifications use 65% (although all units are externally assessed, all but one are forms of non-exam assessment) ↩
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Legacy qualifications use up to 8.33% ↩
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Legacy qualifications use up to 4.17% ↩