Exams
The Exams Officer at Great Sankey High School can be contacted either by telephone on 01925 724118 or by email c.delmont@gshs.omegamat.co.uk
General Exam Information
Coping with exam pressure – a guide for students
Visit the Gov.uk website "Coping With Exam Pressure" here
Access Arrangements and Reasonable Adjustments
Please contact Mrs Edwards, SENDCO, for more information and read the JCQ document ‘Guidance for Parents, Carers and Students about Access Arrangements’. https://www.jcq.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/JCQ-Parent-guidance-information-sheet.pdf
Notices to Candidates
The Joint Council for Qualifications (JCQ) is a membership organisation comprising the eight largest providers of qualifications in the UK. The JCQ provides a single voice for its members on issues of examination administration and, when appropriate, qualification and wider education policy.
Candidates must read the notices to candidates prior to starting any non-examination assessments, course work, onscreen tests or sitting examinations. This information is shared with Year 10 to Year 13 students and parent/carers in September, and ahead of any exam series including internal exams.
Summer 2025
Summer 2025 exam timetables will be issued to students in April. If you want to check exam dates before then, please use the awarding body timetables that are listed below. Subject specification details are listed on the ‘exam board information’ documents in the General Information section above. For Summer, students should remain available from 8th May 2025 until 25th June 2025. Students that take subjects that may have a practical element to the qualification or non-examination assessment, should check with their subject teacher when assessments will be taking place.
AQA May/June 2025 Exam Timetable – GCSE
OCR May/June 2025 Exam Timetable – GCSE
Pearson May/June 2025 Exam Timetable – GCSE
WJEC May/June 2025 Exam Timetable – GCSE
AQA May/June 2025 Exam Timetable – A Level
OCR May/June 2025 Exam Timetable – A Level
Pearson May/June 2025 Exam Timetable – A Level
WJEC May/June 2025 Exam Timetable – A Level
Summer 2025 – Contingency Information
The awarding bodies have collectively agreed contingency dates for Summer 2025 as the afternoon of Wednesday 11th June and the full day for Wednesday 25th June 2025. Students should remain available up to and including these dates, regardless of their last exam being sooner. The contingency dates are in the event of national or significant local disruption to exams in the United Kingdom, being part of the awarding bodies’ standard contingency planning for exams.
Internal Exams (Mocks)
Year 10
16th June 2025 – 27th June 2025
Year 11
18th November 2024 – 29th November 2024
24th February – 7th March 2025
Year 12
16th June 2025 – 27th June 2025
Year 13
18th November 2024 – 29th November 2024
24th February – 7th March 2025
PLEASE NOTE SOME INTERNAL EXAMS MAY BE SCHEDULED EITHER SIDE OF THE PUBLISHED EXAM DATES
Certificate and Result Information
If you are unable to collect your results or certificates yourself, you may nominate someone to collect them on your behalf. Please email the exams officer with information on who will be collecting your results/certificates or you can complete a Third-Party Collection Form . The person collecting will need to photo ID of their own with them. Alternatively, you can have your results posted home. You will need to send a stamped-addressed envelope to school reception for the attention of the Exams Officer and they will be sent on the day of release of results.
Certificates are only required to be kept by us for a minimum of 12 months. After this time, the school can destroy any uncollected certificates. Please contact the Exams Officer to check if we still hold your certificates, if we do not, information on obtaining replacement certificates can be found here. Not all awarding bodies offer a replacement certificate service. In such circumstances the awarding body will issue a Certifying Statement of Results. Where either a replacement certificate or Certifying Statement of Results is issued, it will provide an accurate and complete record of results for all qualifications covered by the original certificate.
If we no longer hold a record of your qualifications, you should be able to access information on your personal learning record – more information can be found here.
Post-Results Services
After each external exam series, awarding bodies offer a post-results service. Candidates will be informed about the services available and how to access them. There are procedures in place that we must follow as set by the awarding bodies and strict deadlines. There may be fees to you for the service. You can read more here https://www.jcq.org.uk/exams-office/post-results-services/
Awarding Body Privacy Notice
AQA https://www.aqa.org.uk/about-us/privacy-notice
OCR https://www.ocr.org.uk/about/our-policies/website-policies/privacy-policy/candidate-privacy-policy/
WJEC https://www.eduqas.co.uk/home/privacy-policy/
Useful links
Joint Council for Qualifications
OFQUAL
AQA Student & Parent Support
Eduqas Student Support
OCR Student Support
Pearson Student Support
WJEC Student Support
NHS – Advice for Parents