Can you do a crest award by yourself?

Sign up for a free CREST account online. You can use this account to enter your child’s details, create projects and submit project work, assess your child’s work, pay any CREST entry fees and request certificates.

How do you get a crest award?

Sign up to the CREST awards online You can enter students for all award levels using our online platform. Star and SuperStar: Once you have created your account, you will be able to create a project entry, add students, record your challenges and pay your entry fees.

Is a crest award good?

Yes – the CREST Awards are well-regarded by UCAS and are recognised as a high-quality and tangible source of skills and knowledge. When applying for university or for an apprenticeship, you can stand out from the crowd by writing about your CREST Award in your personal statement.

What is a Gold Crest Award?

CREST Gold allows students to conduct real research. They are longer-term projects that require around 70 hours’ work, and are typically completed by 16-to-19-year-olds. By working towards a CREST Gold Award, students will develop and deliver largely self-directed projects.

Can you do a crest award without a teacher?

Mentors are not a requirement when taking part in CREST, however, they are strongly recommended at Gold level, preferred at Silver, and optional at Bronze and Discovery levels. To find a mentor for your project, you can: Request support through the STEM Ambassadors Scheme.

What does crest awards stand for?

CREST is a UK award scheme that recognises success, and enables students to build their skills and demonstrate personal achievement in project work.

Is Gold Crest award prestigious?

CREST Gold can be used by students to enhance their UCAS personal statements. The award is recognised and respected by universities and employers.

Is Crest award an EPQ?

Enter an Extended Project Qualification (EPQ) for a CREST Award. If your students are working towards an Extended Project Qualification in an area related to science, technology, engineering or maths, they can gain extra recognition for their work by entering your project for a CREST Gold Award.

Is a Gold Crest award good?

CREST Gold can be used by students to enhance their UCAS personal statements. The award is recognised and respected by universities and employers. Students who gain a Gold Award receive a personalised certificate.

What is a Silver Crest Award?

Silver Awards are designed to stretch students and enrich their STEM studies. Students develop their own project idea and gain in-depth experience of the scientific method or engineering design process. Sign up to run a CREST Silver Award.

What is a bronze crest award?

Bronze Awards introduce students to project work empowering them to work like real scientists, technologists, engineers or mathematicians. Students choose their own topic and methodologies, giving them complete freedom over their work. Sign up to run a CREST Bronze Award.

How long do Crest Awards take?

between 2 and 6 weeks
Once you have paid your CREST fees and payment has been processed, Silver/Gold assessment can take between 2 and 6 weeks, depending if it is a busy time of year.

Can I do an EPQ in year 13?

There’s no set time limit for doing an EPQ, but most students use the summer vacation at the end of Year 12 to do the preliminary research and then complete the project in the early part of Year 13. It is a formal ‘level 3’ qualification that attracts slightly higher UCAS Tariff points than a new AS-Level.

What is equivalent to an EPQ?

An EPQ is equivalent to half an A level, and is worth more than an AS. With an EPQ you are able to achieve an A* grade, unlike with an AS level, so it can be worth more tariff points. For the EPQ: A*: 28 points.

Is a bronze crest award good?

Bronze Awards introduce students to project work empowering them to work like real scientists, technologists, engineers or mathematicians. Students choose their own topic and methodologies, giving them complete freedom over their work.

Can crest award be done in groups?

Groups can only be up to 15 students. 3) Submit as a group and add editors to the award entry – one student or an educator creates a free online account, creates an award entry and adds the students/other students to the award entry.

Is EPQ a waste of time?

Josh Heath, who has also done an EPQ, says: “For the most part it was a waste of time.” The EPQ process involves several skills lessons, where you learn different ways to carry out research, record findings, and how to move to the next stage of the project.

Do unis like EPQ?

Do universities like EPQs? Universities very much like the EPQ. It shows you can undertake independent research, which is necessary for all students at university and helps to bridge the gap between sixth form and degree-level study. Moreover, it shows passion and self-discipline.

Do EPQ help for Oxbridge?

EPQs are recognised by Oxbridge even if they don’t form part of an offer and are a good way to demonstrate super curricular knowledge. EPQs are a way to show initiative and creative, independent thought. Oxford & Cambridge are overwhelmed with candidates who are all predicted top grades.