Its interim report into the standard of diplomas looked at courses covering engineering offered by AQA-City and Guilds, society health and development courses offered by Edexcel and diplomas in creative and media offered by OCR.
Ofqual found that exam papers were not challenging enough for the best students. "Some question papers did not provide enough opportunities for more able candidates to demonstrate the extent of their knowledge, understanding and skills," says the interim report.
In the case of the Edexcel and OCR courses Ofqual found they had been "poorly designed" leaving students only able to give limited responses to questions.
For the Edexcel society, health and development course students' work was found to be of a poor standard, "with candidates' responses lacking suitable depth at both key grade boundaries".
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