[sims] Updating GCSE resit results - sat externally

[lespeirce]

I am pretty new to SIMS and have not needed to worry about anything to do with exams as we are a new sixth form with only Year 12 students on two year programmes. However, we did have 10/11 sit a GCSE maths resit back in November. We are in temporary accommodation and have not become an exam centre in our own right, so these students sat the exam as external candidates under our "hosts" centre. Now I am about to face the issue that the results will be available tomorrow and I need to work out how I am going to use that information. As we are not an exam centre yet Exam organiser is blank. How can i add any results to a students course records? Am I right that in thinking that in SIMS the exam results need to be present to pull into a course record?

I will no doubt have the same issue come the summer as we take ownership of our permanent site after the summer exams. So any help much appreciated.

 

Regards

Les

[wheatus]

If these results are from a different centre number you should be able to use the add external result feature.

 

Quick google turned up this: http://www.thegrid.org.uk/info/traded/sitss/exams/general/documents/dms032_sims_exams_add_external_results_v1_1.pdf

[lespeirce]

Thanks for responding. I used this method for prior attainment for some students from non-"CTF" schools, but wasn't sure if there was any other way. I am told we are hoping we'll have exam centre approval before summer entries need making (I know only 5 weeks away!) so another steep learning curve awaits.