Administration & IT · National 5
Administration & IT is the theory and practice of running an office in the digital age. Half of it is about people, legislation and workplace practice; the other half is hands-on IT skills across documents, spreadsheets, databases and web content.
What it offers you
Administration & IT gives you workplace-ready IT skills plus an understanding of office practice and the legislation behind it — useful in almost any administrative, business or public-sector role.
What National 5 actually asks of you
Question paper
Two strands in one paper: administrative practices (roles, legislation, health and safety, security of data, customer service) and IT solutions (word processing, spreadsheets, relational databases, presentations, e-communication and web pages).
Assignment — a set of practical administrative and IT tasks based on a scenario, completed under supervised conditions.
Exact timings and mark allocations are printed on the front cover of each paper below.
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Papers & marking schemes
2026
7 files2025
7 files2024
6 files2023
6 filesSQA publishes the most recent five years of papers. Older papers and specimen papers live on their site — open Administration & IT National 5 on sqa.org.uk.