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Secure Key Materials

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Please read our new leaflet and look at the following demo to find out more about this new service.

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June 2010 examinations

The following Preliminary Material is intended for use by candidates.

Policy on web publication of preliminary and pre-release material

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:

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.

An exemplar script and commentary completed by the Principal Examiner is now available for each externally assessed unit (IT01, IT09 and IT10).

To request a copy of these exemplar materials e-mail us. Please include your name, centre number and centre address and we will despatch these materials to you on a CD-ROM.

The A-level Applied ICT Teachers' Guide Version 3.2

The A-level Applied ICT Teachers' Guide was amended in September 2009. Updates have been made to the following units: IT01, IT04, IT05, IT06, IT08, IT09, IT11, IT12, IT13, IT14 and IT15. Version 3.2 can be downloaded from the Teacher Resource Bank.

The summer assessment window for the externally assessed A-level Applied ICT units (IT01, IT09 and IT10) has changed for summer 2009 onwards. The assessments will be conducted between 15 March to 5 June 2009.

The January assessment window will remain between 1 November and 21 January.

SeriesAssessment window opens: Final date of assessment window, candidates' work must be posted to the examiner on or before:
January 20091 November 200821 January 2009
June 2009 15 March 2009 5 June 2009
January 2010 1 November 2009 21 January 2010
June 2010 15 March 2010 5 June 2010
January series 1 November 21 January
June series 15 March 5 June

Coursework standardisation meetings

  • Dates for coursework standardisation meetings are generally published on the AQA Website in September.
  • Meetings are usually held between October and January and are free of charge.
  • Centres are also usually notified in writing.
  • If you are teaching this specification for the first time, please contact us to ensure that you are invited.

Policy on attending coursework standardisation meetings

Please note that AQA's event booking service is the definitive source of information on meeting availability and status, including date changes, full and additional meetings.

Centres may find the data files below useful for work in Unit 3: Data Handling.

View/download the data files AQA SAMPLE BUSINESS NAMES AND ADDRESSES.ZIP (6KB) and AQA SAMPLE CUSTOMER NAMES AND ADDRESSES.ZIP (7KB) in .csv format. All names and addresses in these files are fictional and any representation of these to real people or locations is purely incidental.

Centres do not have to use this data and may wish to create their own data source or download data from another source.

Teachers are advised to use the following marking grids when assessing internally assessed units for A-level Applied ICT:

Changes to content from the previous versions of the marking grids published on the website are side barred.