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Interactive guide: Understanding your routes to grades options

For the June 2022 series, you should try to deliver all exams, coursework, speaking and practical tests according to the syllabus requirements. However, we know that you are still facing different challenges in managing teaching, learning and assessment for June 2022 because of the ongoing impact of the pandemic.

This interactive guide will help you understand the routes to grades options available for your candidates. Start by choosing one of the following options to find out more about how that route works, how to use it, and how to use other routes alongside it.

  • Guidance on components
  • Component adjustments
  • Component exemptions
  • Special consideration

If your country is open and able to run exams, but there are no component adjustments or exemptions available for the syllabuses your candidates are taking, then you may need to consider withdrawing them from June 2022 and re-entering them into a future exam series.

How do I know which option to choose?

The scenarios shown below are just some of the situations we know our centres and candidates are experiencing. We have matched each of these with a possible starting point for a route to grades. If you are unsure which option on the interactive guide to choose as your starting point, check the scenarios to see if any of them apply to you. If you are still unsure, please contact us: info@cambridgeinternational.org

  • I am looking for extra information about a particular syllabus/component.
    • Which route to grade should I choose?

      Start by choosing ‘guidance on components’.

  • My candidates can complete all the components in a syllabus. How do I check if there is anything else I need to know?
    • Which route to grade should I choose?

      Start by choosing ‘guidance on components’.

  • My candidates can complete some, but not all, sections of a component in a syllabus.
    • Which route to grade should I choose?

      Start by choosing ‘component adjustments’.

  • My candidates cannot complete any part of for one or more components in the syllabus.
    • Which route to grade should I choose?

      Start by choosing ‘component exemptions’.

  • All my candidates are learning from home. How can they complete certain components?
    • Which route to grade should I choose?

      Start by choosing ‘component adjustments’.

  • My candidates cannot access the right equipment for a certain component.
    • Which route to grade should I choose?

      Start by choosing ‘component exemptions’.

  • The syllabus includes group work – our candidates cannot do this.
    • Which route to grade should I choose?

      Start by choosing ‘component exemptions’.

  • My centre is closed at short notice due to Covid-19.
    • Which route to grade should I choose?

      Start by choosing ‘special consideration’.

  • My candidates have sat some of their exams but the rest will be cancelled due to a country lockdown.
    • Which route to grade should I choose?

      Start by choosing ‘special consideration’.

  • One or more of my candidates is affected unexpectedly by Covid-19 on exam day e.g. they are ill or self-isolating.
    • Which route to grade should I choose?

      Start by choosing ‘special consideration’.

  • One or more of my candidates is affected by adverse circumstances on exam day, not related to Covid-19 e.g. bereavement, injury or illness.
    • Which route to grade should I choose?

      Start by choosing ‘special consideration’.

  • I have applied for and am using component adjustments and/or exemptions but my centre has closed in the middle of the exam series.
    • Which route to grade should I choose?

      Start by choosing ‘special consideration’.

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