A-level English Language B
Autumn Teacher Standardisation Meetings – (ENGB2) and (ENGB4)
Details of these standardisation meetings will be available via our Event Booking Service. After booking, you will receive an automated acknowledgement; this will be followed up by a further email with the venue details 21 days before the meeting.
These free-of-charge standardisation sessions are being held from now through to early December, across the country. The morning sessions will focus on the AS coursework unit (ENGB2) and the afternoon sessions will focus on the A2 coursework unit (ENGB4).
Due to demand for spaces, only one delegate per centre may attend. However, a centre may send one delegate to a morning AS session and a different delegate to an afternoon A2 session if desired.
Both AS and A2 sessions will focus on coursework pieces across different mark bands, and will include important advice and guidance on assessing the AS or A2 units.
Secure Key Materials
Secure Key Materials is a new e-AQA service which replaces Recent Exam Materials from 1 September. It provides teachers and Exams Officers with exclusive access to a bank of exam-related material that is:
- secure
- easy to navigate
- quick to use
- intuitive, based on the design of our website.
Please read our new leaflet and look at the following demo to find out more about this new service.
To obtain an e-AQA account and access to Secure Key Materials, please register at e-AQA. For more information about the materials published on Secure Key Materials, please don't hesitate to contact the Subject team.
New CPD Inspire courses available for booking now!
Our new Head of Department Inspire programme is aimed at recently appointed, aspiring or developing Heads of Department.
For further details, dates and locations and to book your place, visit our on-line booking service. Alternatively, please visit our CPD Inspire pages.
June 2010 exams
New-look question papers and how our examiners will mark long answers on screen
For exams with separate question papers and answer books, there will be:
- a new numbering system using two digits
- a new-look answer book with spaces for candidates to write the two-digit question numbers.
For guidance and help managing the change, AQA have produced the following support:- Teacher Guide (revised)
- Exams Officer and Invigilator Guide
- Exams Officer questionnaire feedback
- Student Guide.
- GCSE and A2 specimen papers and mark schemes are available for download from the relevant subject pages now. AS June 2009 papers have been reworked as specimens and are now available to view in the past question papers section of the key materials.
You need read no further if you teach components unaffected by these changes.
If you teach any components/units affected by these changes, read about the changes to question papers and how examiners will mark long answers.
A few question papers (mainly legacy GCSE in their last year of operation), are exempt from changes to question numbering but continue to work with the JCQ separate answer book.
These subjects that currently use separate question papers and answer books will become combined question paper answer books in June 2010.
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