Vocational Courses
What is a vocational qualification?
VTQs focus on a specific job or a broad employment area, such as childcare, engineering or IT.
VTQs have different assessment arrangements and, unlike GCSEs (where all the exams are taken at the end of the course), VTQs are designed to be flexible so students can take assessments at different times of the year.
Vocational qualifications are graded pass, merit, distinction at level one, then level 2 pass (roughly equivalent to GCSE grade 4) then climbing to Level 2 distinction (roughly GCSE level 7) before the top grade of Level 2 Distinction star (L2D*).
Level 2 vocational qualifications at Sackville are the same as GCSE’s and are seen as the same weightings.
