Special Requirements: Access Arrangements & Special Considerations

Welcome to the Special Requirements: Access Arrangements & Special Considerations Support page.

Some candidates may have special needs during their examinations. In such cases, centres can apply for special requirements on their behalf. Access Arrangements, Reasonable adjustments and Special Considerations are all applied using the Centre Admin Portal (CAP).
 

JCQ guide to the special consideration process, effective from 1 September 2024, please make sure you bookmark or download this document.

Access Arrangements & Reasonable Adjustments

Transferred Candidates

Modified Papers

Special Considerations

Access Arrangements & Reasonable Adjustments

• Centre Admin Portal (CAP) 

• Access Arrangements FAQs Index 
  • Access Arrangements: Application FAQs One
  • Access Arrangements: Application FAQs Two
  • Access Arrangements: Application FAQs Three  

• Access Arrangements: Deadlines

• Access Arrangements and Reasonable Adjustments 2024/25 (PDF download)

• PAAO FAQs - UK Centres (PDF download)

• PAAO FAQs - International Centres (PDF download)

• PAAO: Pearson Access Arrangements User Guide Index

• PAAO: Pearson Access Arrangements - Creating an Application

• PAAO: Pearson Access Arrangements - Finding an Application / Viewing Outcomes

• Access Arrangements: PAAO No awarding body error message

• Access Arrangements: Making Applications

• Access Arrangements: Late Applications

• Access Arrangements: Viewing Approved Applications

• Access Arrangements/Special Consideration Appeals Process

• Access Arrangements: Word Processors

• Access Arrangements: Alternative Site Arrangements

• Access Arrangements: Reasonable Adjustment

• Access Arrangements: Special Educational Needs Coordinator (SENCo)

• Timetable Variations And Clashes

• Applying Extra Time - GCSE Speaking & Listening Tests

• Access Arrangements: BTEC Onscreen and Paper-Based Test Application Deadlines

• Access Arrangements: Guidance for International Centres

• Reasonable Adjustments: Statement of Recognition and Alternative Assessment Evidence

Modified Papers

• Modified Papers FAQs Index
  • Modified Papers FAQs: Available And Ordering Modifications
  • Modified Papers FAQs: General Questions And Troubleshooting

• Modified Papers: Deadlines

• Modified Papers: Making Applications

• Modified Papers: Withdrawing Applications

• Modified Papers: Despatch

Transferred Candidates

• JCQ Guidance Notes for Transferred Candidates 2024/25

• Transferred Candidates

• Transfer Of Credit

Special Considerations

• Applying for Special Considerations FAQs

• Guides to Special Consideration Applications

• Special Considerations: Deadlines 

• Special Considerations: How to apply for NQF BTECs

• Special Considerations: General / International Academic Qualifications 

• Special Consideration: Application Status

• Special Considerations: Late Request

• Special Considerations: Appeals

• Special Considerations: Aegrotat Calculation

• Special Consideration: GCSE/GCE Checking Mark Applied To Grade

• Special Consideration: Posthumous Award/Certification 

• Special Consideration: NQF BTEC Checking Mark Applied To Grade