What access arrangements are available for my student(s)?

• Amplification equipment, taped questions and responses
• Bilingual dictionary
• Braillers
• Brailling of non-secure assessment material
• Colour naming by the invigilator for learners who are colour blind
• Coloured overlays
• Low vision aid/magnifier
•  Prompter
•  Read Aloud
•  Supervised rest breaks
•  Transcript
• Word Processor (with spell check and grammar check disabled)
• Alternative rooming arrangements – sitting the examination outside of the main examination hall/room, e.g. a room for a smaller group of candidates
• Blank sheet of paper for doodling, where a candidate has persistent and significant concentration difficulties (This must be included with the candidate’s completed answer booklet.)
• Braille transcript
• Enlarge or photocopy the question paper onto coloured paper
• Fidget toys and stress balls
• Live speaker for pre-recorded examination components
• Non-electronic ear defenders/ear plugs
• Non-electronic headphones
• Optical Character Reader (OCR) scanners
• Read aloud (which can include an examination reading pen)
• Sign Language Professional for written questions and responses (but not in MFL Speaking assessments)
• Squared paper for a candidate with visual-spatial difficulties
• Supervised rest breaks
• Timer on a candidate’s desk – a small countdown clock, a small analogue or digital clock, digital timer, sand timer, stopwatch (The candidate must have an established difficulty and control the device themselves.) 

Where permitted by the
specification, the arrangements
listed to the right may be granted
by the centre without prior
approval from Cambridge OCR, but a
Form 11 (JCQ/EL/NF) must be
completed and kept on the
centre’s files.
 

The Form 11 is available through the JCQ Centre Admin Portal (CAP) on Interchange.
 

• Extra time in timed components
• Computer Reader (In Entry Level Certificate English, a reader is not permitted in the Reading component. A computer reader may be used in the Reading component of Entry Level Certificate English where it is the candidate’s normal way of working within the centre)
• Practical Assistant
• Scribe/Speech Recognition Technology
• Bilingual dictionary with 25% extra time (for the use of the dictionary)

The Form 11 (JCQ/EL/NF) must list the names and numbers of learners
who were granted any of these arrangements.