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Cambridge Checkpoint Cambridge Secondary 1

Overview

Cambridge Checkpoint tests are for use at the end of Cambridge Secondary 1. They are marked by us and provide schools with an external international benchmark for student performance. Cambridge Checkpoint enables feedback to be provided on a learner's strengths and weaknesses in key curriculum areas. Feedback of this kind is an invaluable source of information. Schools and colleges will be able to make strategic decisions, drawing upon a pool of information and specialist reporting tools built into Cambridge Checkpoint. Learners receive a Statement of Achievement which gives an indication of their academic progress during this education stage.

Cambridge Checkpoint tests are available in English, Mathematics and Science and can be offered at two sessions during the year. The tests cover all major areas of learning required in the first years of an international secondary education.

Cambridge Checkpoint feedback documents

The diagnostic reports generated by Cambridge Checkpoint enable schools to:

• tailor individual learners' learning programmes
• monitor group and individual performance
• provide information for reporting to parents
• compare the performance of all learners taking tests in that session
• manage learning programmes within schools as learners move between schools
• predict performance in learners' formal examinations

The test feedback measures a learner’s performance against a number of variables including how a learner performed in relation to:

• the curriculum framework
• their teaching group
• a whole school cohort
• previous years' learners

The report on a candidate gives:

• a Cambridge Checkpoint score for the whole subject
• a Cambridge Checkpoint score for each main topic/skill
• a list of the questions (and the sub-topics/skills) where the candidate's performance was particularly strong or particularly weak
• an attractively presented statement of achievement

The report on a teaching group gives:

• an average Cambridge Checkpoint score for the whole subject
• an average Cambridge Checkpoint score for each main topic/skill
• a list of sub-topics/skills with comments on the performance of the group
• the Cambridge Checkpoint scores of each candidate on the subject and on each main topic/skill
• the marks scored by each candidate on each question

The report on a school gives:

• an average Cambridge Checkpoint score for the whole subject
• an average Cambridge Checkpoint score for each main topic/skill
• a list of sub-topics/skills with comments on the performance of the learners

The end-of-session report gives the results of the whole cohort, from all schools, broken down by age and first language, so that schools may compare their own results with those of similar learners from elsewhere. The report will also give the examiner's comments on the test.

Cambridge Secondary 1 English as a Second Language curriculum
For schools teaching the Cambridge Secondary 1 English as a Second Language curriculum, externally certificated assessments can be provided by our sister organisation Cambridge English. Cambridge English tests suitable for learners at the Cambridge Secondary 1 stage are:

Cambridge English: Preliminary for Schools (PET for Schools)