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The '''Joint Council for Qualifications''' ('''JCQ''') is a [[community interest company]] acting as a single voice for the eight largest qualification providers in the [[United Kingdom]] offering [[GCSE]], [[General Certificate of Education|GCE]], [[Scottish Highers]] and vocationally related qualifications: [[Assessment and Qualifications Alliance|AQA]], [[CCEA]], [[City & Guilds]], [[Edexcel]], [[Northern Council for Further Education|NCFE]], [[Oxford, Cambridge and RSA Examinations|OCR]], [[Scottish Qualifications Authority|SQA]] and [[WJEC (exam board)|WJEC]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.jcq.org.uk/about_us/index.cfm |title=About us – JCQ |accessdate=13 October 2009 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20091007013929/http://www.jcq.org.uk/about_us/index.cfm |archivedate=7 October 2009 |df=dmy-all }}</ref> The JCQ closely monitors examination administration, invigilation of exams at individual schools andas-well as activities of exams officers.<ref>http://www.examofficers.org.uk/awarding-bodies-partnerships/282-jcq-partnership</ref>
 
==About==
The JCQ was established in January 2004, to supersedesucceeding the Joint Council for General Qualifications (JCGQ, 1998–2003). TheIts JCQpurpose was establishedis to unitebring totogether an extent the largestmajor educational and vocational examination boards in the United Kingdom and to administeroversee testing standards. The JCQ should not be confused with Ofqual (Office of Qualifications and Examinations Regulation), which holds the authority to regulate and accredit British examination boards. The JCQ wasfacilitates formedcollaboration toamong enableits member awarding bodies to act together in:
* providing, wherever possible, common administrative arrangements for the schools and colleges and other providers which offer their qualifications
* dealing with the regulators, in responding to proposals and initiatives on assessment and the curriculum
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==Regulations and examination practices==
The JCQ provides rules and regulations concerning the exams. These include:are updated annually and published on their website.
*Exam papers, secure downloads and on-screen tests should be kept in a secure storage facility, accessed only by the head of the examining centre or by the exams officer.
*Exams should start at 9:00&nbsp;am for morning exams or 1:30&nbsp;pm for afternoon exams, or at the awarding body's published start time (if different). Exams should not be started{{clarify|date=July 2020}} more than 30 minutes before or after the start time.
*Exam candidates must be supervised at all times, including if they have clashes, extra time or an earlier time.
*Calculators must not contain any electronic facilities prohibited by the board.
*All helpful material in the room must be removed, and a clock must be clearly visible to all candidates.
*All accessible exam help must take place separately, if it may help other candidates or disturb the environment.
*All candidates must be identified within the exam.{{clarify|date=July 2020}}
*Only official stationery and answer booklets may be used.
*No electronic or digital storage equipment can be used unless expressly stated on the exam paper. This includes iPods and MP3/4 players, mobile phones and reading pens.{{Citation needed|date=May 2019}}
*Any such items taken into exam room must be at front of hall, or under candidate's desk at very least.
*Pencil cases must be transparent.
*Any food or drink must be clear of packaging and labels.
*Writing must be in black ink only.
*All work, including rough work, must be in the answer booklet and clearly labelled.
*Correcting pens, fluid and tape, erasable pens, reading pens and blotting paper are prohibited.{{Citation needed|date=May 2019}}
*Highlighters, gel pens and coloured ink/pencils must not be used for answers.
*Late candidates should be allowed to sit the exam, but a full report must be made if the candidate is more than one hour late.
*Malpractice{{clarify|date=July 2020}} is prohibited and should be reported to the board immediately. The available penalties are: a warning, disqualification from that unit, disqualification from that entire qualification, or a ban from sitting all exams for a set period of time.
*In the case of an emergency, candidates are to be escorted in silence to a safe location away from other candidates not sitting the exam.{{clarify|date=July 2020}}
 
Any malpractice, lateness of more than one hour, candidates leaving the exam early, or disturbances should be reported to the board. A candidate's exam papers may then be cancelled in that exam, subject, or whole series. British examination boards for GCSEs and GCE A-levels (i.e. AQA, Edexcel, OCR, WJEC, CCEA) are obliged to comply with JCQ's regulations, whereas [[Cambridge Assessment International Education|Cambridge International]] are not obliged to comply with them for their international GCSEs.<ref>http://www.examofficers.org.uk/news/eoa-lastest-news/839-maidstone-makes-its-mark</ref>
 
==See also==
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