Fact · Accessibility and health
A candidate must have had appropriate opportunities to practise with an access arrangement before the first examination, and the guidance names speech recognition technology specifically.
Checked against its source on October 16, 2026
In the source's own words
“The learner must have had appropriate opportunities to practise using the access arrangement(s) before his/her first examination.”
Access Arrangements and Reasonable Adjustments Guidance (Version 1.0, October 2024), NCFE, awarding organisation, 2024, Access arrangements policy statement, practice requirement.
Open the original- What it measures
- The guidance says this is particularly so where a computer reader, a scribe, speech recognition technology or a word processor will be used.
- What it does not show
- The guidance uses British spelling in its own text, which is preserved in the quote.