AQA, OCR, Pearson and WJEC offer the Extended Project Qualification, which is a qualification aimed at developing a student’s research and independent learning skills.
The EPQ can be taken as a stand-alone qualification, and it is equivalent to half an A level in UCAS points (but only a third of performance points).
Students complete a research based written report and may produce an artefact or a practical science experiment as part of their project