Exam processing technology
Streamline assessment management and exam processing with our technology
Managing large-scale, high-stakes exams is a complex process, filled with potential risks. Learners around the world still rely on manual processes to deliver exam results that are the basis of their future.
At AQA we are passionate about elevating the quality and accuracy of assessment. We have a long history of pioneering new technology and our proprietary exam processing platform incorporates our 120 years of expertise in delivering assessments.
This suite of technologies enables us to implement best practice, on a large scale, at each stage of the assessment lifecycle.
Increasing reliability and efficiency
Every year we deliver nearly 4 million results
Manage millions of marks for over 1.1 million students
In 6,500 UK schools
Our fundamental purpose is to process those marks accurately and reliably, to ensure that learners get the right results.
To protect and enhance the security of our exam processing, we have made major investments in our technology. We now have the world-leading, cloud-based exam processing system. It delivers the scale, resilience and security demanded by the UK exam system – for our regulator, for teachers and, most importantly, for students.
By building on these solutions, other awarding organisations can gain similar benefits in quality management, accuracy, reliability and the ability to manage the exam process with real-time information.
AQA’s exam processing technology
Our exam processing platform is a major investment in best-in-class technology. It manages all stages of exam processing from receiving exam entries to recruiting examiners, from processing marks to delivering results.
Developed in partnership with Avanade, and leveraging Microsoft Azure capabilities, it has been designed to meet the UK’s ‘gold-standard’ regulatory requirements and is fully scalable.
Functions:
- Product management
- Order management
- Candidate registration
- Centre management
- Examiner management
- Supply chain management
- Marking management
- Results management
- Financial management
We’re here to make sure everybody gets the right result, in the right way, on time, and they’re able to move on to the next stage of their working or educational lives.”
Colin Hughes, Chief Executive Officer at AQA
Certification and quality assurance
We can provide quality assurance of the delivery and assessment of teaching programmes and learning outcomes.
We also provide certification of existing courses, endorsed by us or by government recognition, to demonstrate approval of quality courses. Every centre that delivers an endorsed course goes through our rigorous External Quality Assurance checks, meaning they provide the same high levels of learning we expect from all our recognised centres.
Our London office
AQA Global Assessment Services
Lynton House
7-12 Tavistock Square
London
WC1H 9LT
UK
Offices in Manchester, Milton Keynes, Bahrain, Hong Kong
