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The first level 6 National Qualification in Journalism (NQJ) exams were sat on Friday, July 5 by trainees hoping to achieve 'senior journalist' status.

After a record 78 per cent pass rate in the November NQJ exams, the highest performing candidates in each of the four sections have received high praise from the exam moderator. 

Students at the City of Liverpool College and News Associates London are the first to sit the new newspaper and magazine regulation test which forms part of the essential journalism ethics and regulation module.

The exam moderator has congratulated NQJ award winners on achieving top marks in July’s NQJ exam. 

Giving students the option to sit NCTJ exams at home has allowed them to “strike while the iron is hot”, says one course leader.

David Rowell, group editorial development executive of Johnston Press, supported the new format for NCTJ shorthand examinations when speaking at a Shorthand Seminar.

The number of students sitting shorthand exams at the start of the 2008-9 academic year was almost double the number sat in the same period the previous year. A total of 736 exams were sat between September and December 2008, compared to 403 between the same dates in 2007-8.

Forty-seven per cent of trainees who sat the National Qualification in Journalism (NQJ) exams in July achieved the qualification. This is the lowest pass rate since the NQJ was first sat in 2013.

A further 48 journalists are celebrating achieving senior status after passing the National Certificate Examination for reporters.

97 journalists were successful in a topical National Certificate Examination for reporters which called for candidates to write a news report on planned industrial action by airline staff.