Notices of intention to accept a settlement proposal: WJEC-CBAC Ltd
Ofqual intends to accept settlement proposals from WJEC over cases in which students were awarded the wrong grades and assessors reviewed papers they had marked.
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Ofqual is to fine awarding organisation WJEC £350,000 in total for breaching exams rules in two separate cases - including one that meant more than 1,500 students received the wrong GCSE grades on results day.
The 1,527 students who received the incorrect results had taken WJEC’s Eduqas GCSE Food Preparation and Nutrition qualification in summer 2024.
In the second case, WJEC reported that between 2017 and 2023 it had allowed 3,926 exam papers, out of 120,094 reviews of marking across 38 Ofqual-regulated qualifications, to be reviewed by the same assessors who had originally marked at least part of them, breaking regulations.
Ofqual will fine WJEC £175,000 for each case. We are publishing 2 Notice of Intention (to accept a settlement proposal) documents, one for each case against WJEC. The documents give more details of the cases and invite interested parties to make representations ahead of final decisions.