This page will be updated throughout the year to share with you important information regarding National Qualifications for session 24-25.
National Qualification Guidance
All young people completing National Qualifications this session should familiarise themselves with the important information below. The documents and video below provide an overview of National Qualifications, coursework requirements and rules/regulations.
Your National Qualifications presentation
Your NQ 2024/25 school edition
!!Exam Timetable Change!!
SQA have made the decision to start the exam diet 1 day earlier to allow more flexibility within the exam timetable.
This now means that exams will run from Friday 25th April to Friday 30th May.
Due to this change, the following subjects have had a date change.
Change of exam day
- Classical Studies – all levels
- Computing Science – all levels
- Engineering Science – all levels
- Modern Studies – all levels
- Practical Metalworking – National 5
- Practical Woodworking – National 5
Change of exam time
- Cantonese (Listening) – Higher
- Cantonese (Listening and Discursive Writing) – Advanced Higher
- Care – National 5 and Higher
- Fashion and Textile Technology – National 5 and Higher
- Mandarin Simplified and Traditional (Listening) – Higher
- Mandarin Simplified and Traditional (Listening and Discursive Writing) – Advanced Higher
An updated timetable is available below.
nq-2025-exam-timetable (updated 3 Feb 2025)