Stakeholder toolkit: National Qualifications
Help spread the word on SQA learner resources
Thank you for choosing to help share the information and support available to learners.
We’ll be updating this page with more useful information as we get closer to exams, taking place from 28 April to 2 June 2025, and to Results Day on Tuesday 5 August 2025.
Within this toolkit page, you’ll find resources and graphics to help you spread the word to learners through presentations, videos, posters and social media. Please feel free to use this content in its current format, or the information provided to help you shape your own content.
Content currently available:
- Your National Qualifications
Questions? Please email social.media@sqa.org.uk.
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General information
Your National Qualifications
This is our resource designed to provide learners, parents and carers with everything they need to know about coursework and preparing for exams. This includes information on using sources, word counts, deadlines – as well as information on plagiarism and using Artificial Intelligence. This year, Your National Qualifications is available as a downloadable, digital resource only.
Ensuring learners download and understand the information and rules associated with submitting their coursework is important to help them avoid malpractice situations.
Useful links
Your National Qualifications resource page – https://www.sqa.org.uk/yourNQ
Learner resource hub – sqa.org.uk/learners
Learner presentation and Know the Rules video
Your National Qualifications
- Presentation powerpoint (27.32 MB)
- Presentation pdf (1.66 MB)
This video is also present at the end of the presentation linked above but you can also use it separately.
- Your National Qualifications video (25.58 MB)
Digital posters
The following resources can be downloaded to help you spread the word to learners through assemblies and throughout your school or college.
Your National Qualifications School
- Your National Qualifications school poster for using on screens (4.79 MB)
- Your National Qualifications school poster for printing (119 KB)
Your National Qualifications College
Social media suggested post copy
Please use #SQAexams in your posts and feel free to tag @sqanews across Instagram, Threads, Facebook and Twitter. You can also find us on LinkedIn and YouTube.
Your National Qualifications
@sqanews has published new information on everything learners, parents and carers need to know about completing coursework and preparing for exams.
Download Your National Qualifications now �� https://www.sqa.org.uk/yourNQ
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The latest resource from @sqanews has everything you need to know about completing coursework – from word counts and deadlines to using A.I.
It also covers important information about #SQAexams.
Download Your National Qualifications: https://www.sqa.org.uk/yourNQ
Social media graphics
Your National Qualifications
- your-nq-social-graphics-1x1-english (196 KB)
- your-nq-social-graphics-1x1-gaelic (185 KB)
- your-nq-social-graphics-9x16-english (181 KB)
- your-nq-social-graphics-9x16-gaelic(173 KB)
Newsletter/email suggested copy for parents
Your National Qualifications
SQA’s learner booklet – Your National Qualifications – is available to download from their website. The booklet contains important information for learners creating and submitting coursework for National 5, Higher and Advanced Higher. It also highlights the rules that learners must know and follow to ensure they are not penalised. Please encourage your child to download and read the booklet. If you have any problems accessing the booklet please ask your child to speak to their pupil support.