Requesting a digital paper from the SQA
To request a digital paper follow the SQA Assessment Arrangements procedure.
Our pages on Making Digital Prelims and Assessments have more about how you can create your own assessments.
Requesting a digital paper for GCSE & GCE
Most of the GCSE and GCE awarding bodies provide Digital Papers as a type of 'Access Arrangement' for candidates who have a disability.
With the exception of Pearson, GCSE papers are 'non-interactive PDFs', which means they do not have answer boxes.
Requests for Digital Papers are made via the awarding bodies' Access Arrangements Online system (see below for each awarding body).
AQA is an exception, since their papers can be used by any candidate.
Considerations
- If you intend to use a Computer Reader (text reader) to read the paper, you must make a request via the awarding bodies' Access Arrangements Online system.
- Centres do not need to request permission to use a word processor with spellcheck turned off to type answers in an examination, where it is appropriate to their needs, and is their normal way of working.
Awarding bodies
- AQA
Centres can download papers from AQA's secure site on the day of the exam, for use by any candidate - they are not restricted to candidates who require Access Arrangements. - CCEA
Provide non-interactive PDF versions of papers as an Access Arrangement. - OCR
Provide non-interactive PDF question papers as an Access Arrangement. - Pearson
Provide 'Accessible PDFs' - interactive on-screen answer boxes which are also tagged, with 'alt text' for images so they can be read with computer readers. - WJEC
Provide non-interactive PDF Question Papers as an Access Arrangement.
