Cambridge Nationals: NEA FAQs - What is the difference between a reattempt and a resubmission?

What is the difference between a reattempt and a resubmission?

Reattempt

Refer to Section 6.4.4 of the Specification

A reattempt happens before marks are submitted to OCR. Students should complete their assignment evidence and submit this to the teacher for marking.

• If the student and teacher are happy with the mark at this stage, the mark is submitted to OCR.
• If the student is not happy with the mark, they can agree with the teacher to reattempt any part of their assignment evidence that they want to. This is classed as a reattempt. When they have finished reworking their evidence, it can be submitted to the teacher for marking again. The mark from this reattempted work is the mark that should be submitted to OCR.

Resubmission

Refer to Section 6.6 of the Specification

If you agree that students may try to improve their mark/grade after the OCR moderation process, they can rework their evidence based on the same assignment and submit this for external moderation again. There is one resubmission opportunity per assignment provided the assignment is still live. If the assignment is no longer live, students would need to use the new live assignment for the resubmission.

As each assignment is available for the January and June series each year, resubmission using the same assignment is only available if the first submission is made in January.

So, to summarise:

• A reattempt is a process that is internal to the centre. This allows students to rework their evidence after it has been marked by the teacher as a complete assignment before it is submitted as the final work to OCR.
• A resubmission is the reworking and submitting of assignment evidence and marks to OCR, following previous external moderation by OCR.