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This website works best with JavaScript switched on. Please enable JavaScript. This website uses cookies to improve your experience. Please either accept the cookies, or find out how to remove them. The lead assessment writer then develops the blueprint for the paper with the chief examiner.

This is one of the most important parts of the whole process, as all the individual questions will be checked carefully against the blueprint. Once a question and its mark scheme have been created, it is reviewed by the reviser and other senior examiners. They use a comprehensive checklist to make sure each question offers the right level of challenge, tests content that is covered in the specification and is error free. We want to ensure that our questions work for everyone, so we have a team that modifies papers for visually impaired students.

We also work with The British Association of Teachers of the Deaf, who tell us if certain words or images could make the question more difficult for some students. When all of these checks have been completed, the individual questions are pulled together into a question paper. At this stage there are a number of further checks to be made. The paper is read by the qualifications developer and professional proofreaders.

They check the spelling, grammar and accuracy of the questions, as well as any images, diagrams and charts. After that, the lead assessment writer and reviser check that the paper follows the blueprint.

The next stage is where the first scrutineer comes in. Our scrutineers are subject experts who sit the paper exactly as a student would. They check to see that all the questions are clear, the paper offers the right level of challenge and that it can be completed in the allocated time. The question paper is then reviewed by the Question Paper Approval Committee, who sign it off as fit for purpose and error free.

If everything is fine, the chair of examiners gives their approval. This website uses cookies to improve your experience. Please either accept the cookies, or find out how to remove them. Accept cookies. More information.