Pupils granted extra time in exams (FOI)

​Request 697466124

1. Please provide information held regarding the number of students, per secondary school, who were afforded extra time in GCSE examinations in 2024.

2. Please provide details of the qualifying criteria and assessment process to determine which students are permitted extra time. 

3. Please provide the policy relating to the same.

Response

1. Schools do not hold this information consistently in a recordable format, in order to provide the number of students per secondary school who were afforded extra time in GCSE examination in 2024 would require analysis of each individual exam record. The department have determined that to produce the data would take in excess of 12.5 working hours therefore Article 16 of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011 has been applied.  

2. All schools are required to follow the Joint Council for Qualifications - Adjustments for candidates with disabilities and learning difficulties - Access Arrangements and Reasonable Adjustments, information can be found here: 

ttps://www.jcq.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/JCQ-AARA-24-25_FINAL_accessible.pdf

Schools are inspected annually by JCQ for compliance against this policy.

3. Some schools publish their own exams policy which contains details of how extra time is determined for qualifying students. Other schools point to the JCQ as per the link above:

Grainville - Exam access & reasonable adjustments policy - 2024-2025

https://www.grainville.sch.je/download/exam-access-reasonable-adjustments-september-2022/

Jersey College for Girls – Exams Policy

https://jerseycollegeforgirls.com/pages/about-jcg/our-policies-and-procedures/exams-policy​

Article applied

Article 16 - A scheduled public authority may refuse to supply information if cost excessive

(1) A scheduled public authority that has been requested to supply information may refuse to supply the information if it estimates that the cost of doing so would exceed an amount determined in the manner prescribed by Regulations. 

(2) Despite paragraph (1), a scheduled public authority may still supply the information requested on payment to it of a fee determined by the authority in the manner prescribed by Regulations for the purposes of this Article.

(3) Regulations may provide that, in such circumstances as the Regulations prescribe, if two or more requests for information are made to a scheduled public authority –

(a) by one person; or

(b) by different persons who appear to the scheduled public authority to be acting in concert or in pursuance of a campaign, the estimated cost of complying with any of the requests is to be taken to be the estimated total cost of complying with all of them.​