L7 - Senior Professional Economist

4. Overall grading

Performance in the EPA will determine the apprenticeship grade of fail, pass or distinction. Each assessment method will be graded fail, pass or distinction. An apprenticeship pass award represents minimum competence against the standard.

Marking is based on the following principles:

• All assessment methods will be weighted equally, i.e. 33.3 % each.
• All pass criteria need to be reached in all three assessment methods; in achieving this, the apprentice will be demonstrating a minimum competence level in all knowledge, skills and behaviours in the standard
• A distinction overall requires apprentices to achieve a distinction in two or more assessment methods.

Individual assessment method grades will be collated using the Table below to produce an overall EPA / apprenticeship grade.